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5 days ago · by history tools. May 26, 2024. Shakespeare‘s Richard III is a brilliant portrait of villainy, a mesmerizing study in how unchecked ambition and Machiavellian manipulation can lead to the downfall of individuals and entire kingdoms.
5 days ago · Among these, we find, for the first time, the name of Champernon, as a great Cornish land-holder, having by marriage with Joan Plantagenet, a natural daughter of Richard, King of the Romans, acquired large estates , which were dispersed among coheiresses in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; the Blanchminsters (De albo monasterio), whose estates ...
5 days ago · Confirmation by Richard I to Alexander de Barentin, butler (pincerna) of his father King Henry II, of all the tenements which he acquired in due form, including the seld in Dowgate, London. Westminster, 10 Nov. 1189. WAM 657 (with Great Seal of Richard I). Pd: Formulare, 51–52, no. XCV; NPS Facsimiles, plate 99, preceded by transcript.
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4 days ago · This study challenges the assumption that a cohesive kingdom emerged in the late ninth or early tenth century, contending instead that the administrative advances of Edgar’s reign (959–75) made it possible for England to coalesce into a stable, governable, and precisely-defined territorial kingdom.
3 days ago · Henry III, King of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272) Richard, King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272) Joan, Queen of Scotland (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238) Isabella, Holy Roman Empress (1214 – 1 December 1241) Eleanor, Countess of Pembroke (1215 – 13 April 1275) John had several mistresses, including one named ...
1 day ago · Hengist and Horsa came from this country of the Angles into Britain, which from thence was called Anglia. (fn. 4) At the time the Saxons came out of the Chersonesus, in quest of new settlements, they were joined by the Angles, who, in process of time, became one nation with them. Hence they are, by most authors, comprised under the general name ...
2 days ago · Edward I [a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly ...
