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3 days ago · She retired to a convent in Amesbury, where she died in 1291 at the age of around 68. Eleanor de Montfort, meanwhile, was left a widow and an exile after her husband‘s death. She fled to France with her children, where she spent several years in captivity under the watchful eye of the French king.
5 days ago · Known as “Lady Death,” Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female sniper who served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. She was one of the deadliest in history, with 309 confirmed kills. Pavlichenko enlisted in the Red Army in 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. While initially told she’d be a nurse, she was determined ...
5 days ago · Morgan le Fay (/ ˈ m ɔːr ɡ ən l ə ˈ f eɪ /; Welsh: Morgên y Dylwythen Deg; Cornish: Morgen an Spyrys; all meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgan[n]a, Morgain[a/e], Morg[a]ne, Morgant[e], Morge[i]n, and Morgue[in] among other names and spellings, is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings.
3 days ago · THE LEGEND OF LADY GODIVA. The earliest known version of the story occurs in the Chronicle of Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), and may be rendered as follows:. However, the countess Godiva, a devotee of the mother of God, desiring to free the town of Coventry from the heavy servitude of toll, often besought the earl, her husband, with earnest prayers to free the town from the said servitude and ...
2 days ago · Among the remaining monuments in St. Edmund's Chapel are those of Monck, Bishop of Hereford (1661); the Duchess of Suffolk (1558); Francis Holles, son of the Earl of Clare (1622); Lady Jane Seymour (1560); Sir Bernard Brocas (1400); Sir Humphrey Bourchier (1470); Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester (1399)—this is a monumental brass ...
2 days ago · This week marks the 175th anniversary of a mysterious rendezvous between two French peasant children and a woman in tears. On Sept. 19, 1846, Mélanie Mathieu and Maximin Giraud reported having encountered a lady seated along the hillside outside a small hamlet in the French Alps with her face buried in her hands.
1 day ago · Anne of Austria (French: Anne d'Autriche; Spanish: Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620.
