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3 days ago · Text Search. Use this form to search the fine rolls by text keywords. The boolean operators AND, OR and NOT can be used in between keywords, eg: henry AND king. To execute a phrase search enclose the text with quotes, eg: "king of england". Search for:
4 days ago · Richard I (born September 8, 1157, Oxford, England—died April 6, 1199, Châlus, duchy of Aquitaine) was the duke of Aquitaine (from 1168) and of Poitiers (from 1172) and king of England, duke of Normandy, and count of Anjou (1189–99). His knightly manner and his prowess in the Third Crusade (1189–92) made him a popular king in his own ...
4 days ago · Henry VI (born December 6, 1421, Windsor, Berkshire, England—died May 21/22, 1471, London) was the king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471. He was a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of the Roses. Henry succeeded his father, Henry V, on September 1, 1422, and on the ...
3 days ago · On 7 July 1217 Lisle was confirmed in the keeping of the forest of Nottinghamshire as before. 6 On 6 October that year Maud made a fine of 60 marks with the young king, Henry III, for restoration of the barony (CFR, 1216–17, no. 15), and arrangements were made for the payment terms. 7 Phillip Marc, sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ...
1 day ago · King Henry, by the contrivance of Alvarez, at twelve years of age was married to Mafalda, sister to Alphonsus, king of Portugal, but upon an impediment of consanguinity which was proved before commissaries, pope Innocent III. declared the marriage null, and Mafalda returning to Portugal, founded a Cistercian nunnery at Arouca, took herself the ...
4 days ago · Fine of the Month: November 2007. 1. The Impact of Magna Carta on Widows: evidence from the Fine Rolls 1216–1225. Over the academic year 2006–2007, several students reading for the MA in Medieval History at King’s College London wrote essays based on material in the fine rolls. One of these by Julie Kanter – The Four Knights' System and ...
Queen of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria. 1848 Second Battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians. 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between US and Mexico comes into force, giving California Nevada, Utah and most of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona to the US in return for $15 million. 1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer.
