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1 day ago · The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as ...
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Jubilee and Munin, two of the Tower's ravens in 2016. The...
- List of Prisoners of The Tower of London
The Tower of London The 15th century Tower in a manuscript...
- White Tower (Tower of London)
The White Tower seen from the southeast. To the fore is the...
- Kray Twins
Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and...
- Church of St Peter Ad Vincula
The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in...
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- Scavenger's Daughter
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- Baynard's Castle
Baynard's Castle refers to buildings on two neighbouring...
- Ranulf Flambard
Ranulf Flambard (c. 1060 – 5 September 1128) was a medieval...
- Constable of The Tower
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2 days ago · Eleanor (or Aliénor) was the oldest of three children born to William X, Duke of Aquitaine, son of William IX and Philippa of Toulouse, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimery I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard. Dangereuse was also William IX's longtime mistress.
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4 days ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th ...
5 days ago · In September 1189 William Longchamp, the able and detested Chancellor of Richard I, was elected Bishop of Ely, and not long afterwards his brother Robert became prior. When the bishop died in 1197 the prior accepted the abbacy of St. Mary's, York.
4 days ago · Isabelle de France (1225–70), sister to the saint-king, Louis IX (1214–70), participated in the dedication of Longchamp abbey, which opened to Clarisse nuns in 1259. Reference to devotional inventories, liturgical offices, and records of dynastic patronage at Longchamp are cross-examined with the available evidence from Lourcine, founded in ...
3 days ago · The trial was twice postponed on account of the abbot's illness, and he died on the vigil of Easter, 1190. Richard I was then in Normandy, and his chancellor, William Longchamp, bishop of Ely, obtained leave from him to appoint as abbot his own brother Henry, then a monk of Evesham.
3 days ago · HOUSES OF CISTERCIAN MONKS 3. THE ABBEY OF HOLMCULTRAM . The abbey of Holmcultram, situated in the low-lying district between Carlisle and the Solway, was founded as an affiliation of the great Cistercian house of Melrose by Prince Henry, son of David, King of Scotland, in the year 1150, while he was ruler of the province ceded to Scotland by King Stephen and afterwards known as the county of ...
