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Jan 15, 2024 · Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford, Countess of Essex and Countess of Northampton (1347 – 7 April 1419), was the wife of the 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton. She was the mother of Mary de Bohun, the first wife of Henry of Bolingbroke who later reigned as King Henry IV, and Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of ...
Jan 31, 1992 · Simon Walker, Times Literary Supplement "Unlike other studies of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, this excellent biography is the first to draw upon the wide range of manuscripts at Cambridge University, Westminster Abbey, and other archives. A remarkable woman of the pre-modern period, her life is much better documented than most of ...
- Michael K. Jones, Malcolm G. Underwood
Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), Countess of Richmond and Derby and mother of Henry VII. Having spent her early years as a political pawn, Lady Margaret eventually became the most powerful woman in England as well as a respected patron of education. Early Tudor writers focussed on Margaret’s significance to her son’s career whereas later ...
Sep 8, 2017 · The Peerage of England refers to the Talbot family of Richard’s Castle stating that Richard Talbot was married to Joan daughter and co-heir to Hugh de Mortimer of Richard’s Castle and that Richard Talbot became Lord of that manor in right of his wife. See the section on Earls of Shrewsbury page 27. However it doesn’t mention Hugh de ...
Jan 13, 2018 · Margaret was born a niece of a king and ended up the daughter of a traitor, the wife of an unknown entity and the mother of a papist in the middle of the reformation. She managed to survive until the third act of Henry VIII’s reign, but by then she stood for something else entirely as one of the last Plantagenets to have made it that far in ...
Jun 4, 2023 · Richardson has her husband as "Humphrey de Bohun, Knt., 8th Earl of Hereford, 9th Earl of Essex", and her sons John and Edward as simply "Earl of Essex and Hereford". Wikipedia's article on Elizabeth has "Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd of Essex," but follows that information with a citation needed annotation. The Wikipedia article ...
Blessed Margaret Pole. On the 29th December 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified Margaret, making her Blessed Margaret Pole, a Catholic martyr. Her feast day is the 28th May, the date that some sources give as her execution date. These are the words found on the wall of her cell and thought to have been etched there by Margaret:-.
