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5 days ago · MARGARET OF SAVOY to HENRY VIII. Requests letters patent permitting Carlos, brother of John Baptista Ugochoni, a Florentine, married at Burgos in Castille, to reside in London. Desires to help him for services done to the late King, her brother. Brussells, 18 May 1512.
5 days ago · Wessex. Father. Edmund I. Mother. Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury. Edgar (or Eadgar; [1] c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu.
2 days ago · The reign of the second Tudor king, Henry VIII, was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with the Pope, and the fact that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon produced only one surviving child, a daughter, led the monarch to break from the Roman Catholic Church and establish the Church of England (the Anglican Church ...
1 day ago · His great-grandson (the 4th Duke of York) became King Edward IV in 1461, having deposed his half-second cousin the Lancastrian King Henry VI. [214] Blanche (1342–1342), born in the Tower of London , died shortly after birth and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
5 days ago · It is merely a confirmation of the charter of Henry II (fn. 23) of about the year 1173, which simply recapitulated the great charter of Henry I. It was sealed at Rouen on the 24th March by the Bishop of Ely, he then being the chancellor. The witnesses were: B (aldwin) Archbishop of Canterbury (who died the same year).
5 days ago · Silvester bp. of Worcester, the King's ambassador and the Pope's domestic prelate, has declared Wolsey's thanks for the Pope's goodwill, which he has well deserved. Urges him to incline his King's mind to peace. Commends Worcester. Rome, 4 Jan. 1514, anno primo.
5 days ago · VENICE. [Note of letters seen 12 Oct. 1512.] From Antonio Bavarin to Francesco da Cha da Pesaro, London, 5 Sept.—Attack on Brest by a fleet which left Hampton on 9 Aug. Fight (described) at Brest between the Great Carrack and the Regent, captain Thomas Chanivet. Both finally took fire and were burnt.
