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4 days ago · Joan, Lady of Wales, also known by her Welsh name Siwan, was an illegitimate and favoured daughter of King John, and one of several illegitimate medieval women married off by her father for the sake of politics. Years earlier Henry I only had two legitimate children, leaving his throne to his daughter, Matilda, when his only son died, but ...
3 days ago · Also Joan, lady of Wales, died on [the feast] of the Purification [February 2]. Also Otho came into England as legate. Also Cheshire was seized into the hands of the king, and the earl of Lincoln [John de Lacy] appointed custos. Also Richard de Draycot justiciary.
4 days ago · WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (WTKR) -- Archaeologists are digging up the past at Colonial Williamsburg, and their most recent find was a house that dates back to 1660. They found it while they were building a new archaeology lab that will inform what life was like in the late 1600 to early 1700s. “It ...
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4 days ago · Edward married Joan Lady Ferrers, widow of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, on whom he settled the manor, but died childless, being then Knight of the Body to Henry VII, on 6 July 1499. (fn. 57) With his parents and brothers and sisters he is commemorated by a brass in the chancel of Mamble Church, described by Habington.
2 days ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
4 days ago · The estimated $1.5 million restoration will include repairing the brick and terra cotta stone work, installing a new roof and associated roof drainage, upgrading the electrical system, and ...
William Ferrers, lord of Groby, left to his daughter Elizabeth, a nun at the Minories, £20, and to the abbess and nuns 10 marks; John of Gaunt in 1397 bequeathed £100 to be paid among the sisters; and Joan Lady Clinton left to them by will in 1457 £45 to keep her anniversary.
