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BEAUMONT PALACE. KING RICHARD I. WAS BORN HERE IN 1157. AND KING JOHN IN 1167. This stone set into the wall at the west end of Beaumont Street is understood to have been erected by Alan Brown, a former Vice-Provost of Worcester College. It was restored by Worcester College in 2004, after it was hit by a vehicle in 2003 and left lying in the ...
Henry spent Easter 1133 in the nova aula – his "new hall" at Beaumont – in great pomp, celebrating the birth of his grandson, the future Henry II. Edward I was the last king to sojourn in Beaumont officially as a palace, and in 1275 he granted it to an Italian lawyer, Francesco Accorsi, who had undertaken diplomatic missions for him.
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Dec 8, 2023 · The king's houses, later called Beaumont Palace, were built by Henry I outside the town's North Gate, on a site at the western end of the later Beaumont Street. (fn. 1) Henry I spent Easter at his new hall in Oxford in 1132; (fn. 2) Richard I was born there in 1157 and John in 1167. (fn. 3) Work and repairs on the king's houses were carried out ...
In 1276 the king granted the houses to Edmund Mortimer, who was in minor orders and perhaps studying at the university, and in 1294 to Edward of St. John, described as the king's kinsman. The last recorded repairs at the king's expense were in 1289, and in 1308 the sheriff was permitted to take stones and timber from the houses to repair the ...
Sep 13, 2019 · John’s grandson, Edward I, was the last king who lived in the Beaumont Palace. In 1275, he presented the palace to an Italian lawyer named Francesco Accorsi. But the palace’s grandeur was not ...
Jul 29, 2016 · The war did not go well for France and by March 1762, Louis XV called for peace talks to begin. In August 1762, d’Eon, who had left Russia for a stint as a Dragoon in the French Army, was ...
Beaumont Palace built by Henry I outside the North gate of Oxford city was originally intended as a Royal Palace situated conveniently for his royal hunting lodge at Woodstock. Set into a pillar in Beaumont Street, Oxford, you can find the inscription pictured below: King Richard the Lionheart was born here in 1157 and his brother John in 1167 ...
