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5 days ago · War of the Spanish Succession, (1701–14), conflict that arose out of the disputed succession to the throne of Spain following the death of the childless Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. The war was primarily a struggle to determine whether the vast possessions of the Spanish Empire should pass to the House of Bourbon or to the ...
2 days ago · The Gilbertine priory of St. Margaret at Marlborough stood about 200 yds. south-east of the ancient boundary of the town on the south bank of the Kennet. (fn. 1) Unlike many Gilbertine houses it appears to have been from the start a house for canons only. The earliest surviving mention of it is in a list of Gilbertine houses which King John ...
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4 days ago · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
6 days ago · Typically, sauvignon is fragrant and zesty with crisp, racy green fruits. Marlborough is a wine region on the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand. Unlike other parts of New Zealand, it ...
2 days ago · Monarchy of Sweden. The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden, [3] by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. [4] There have been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy, it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th ...
4 days ago · It consisted of the tithings of Elcot and Langdon Wick, the king's tithing of Manton, and possibly the tithing of Temple Rockley, and was called the honor of Marlborough and hundred of the barton. As Elcot tithing all those tithings were in Selkley hundred in the later 18th century.
5 days ago · Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related ...
