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3 days ago · Part II: The challenges of recovering erased identities and disregarded lives. In our first post in this two-part series exploring our search for the young Black man at the heart of Untold Lives, we explored the legacies of forgotten people at court, and the history of the painting in which this unnamed young man appears behind William III.
4 days ago · William III Avesnes Count of Holland===. William, born c. 1286, was the son of John II Count of Hainaut and his wife Philippa the daughter of Henry V Count of Luxembourg. William was the brother of John of Beaumont and Alice of Hainault. William was originally not expected to become count.
- Avesnes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- November 01, 1286
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2 days ago · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his ...
3 days ago · King William I The Conqueror c. 1028 –1087 r. 1066–1087 King of England: Matilda of Flanders c. 1031 –1083 Queen of England: Malcolm III d. 1093 King of Scotland: Robert II Duke of Normandy c. 1054 –1134: Richard Duke of Bernay c. 1054 – c. 1070: Adeliza of Normandy c. 1055 – before 1113: Cecilia of Normandy c. 1056 –1126: King ...
2 days ago · Thurstan de Holland made grants to William his son; Raines, loc. cit. 225, 229. Joan wife of William de Multon claimed land in Haydock in 1325–6 as her dower after the death of William de Holland, her previous husband; Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II, no. 96. 11. Robert son of Thurstan de Holland described himself as 'lord of Haydock' in 1282 on making ...
2 days ago · Holland House then came into the possession of the youthful earl's first cousin, William Edwardes (a Welsh gentleman, who was created a Peer of Ireland, as Baron Kensington), and was eventually sold to the Right Honourable Henry Fox, the distinguished politician of the time of George II., who, on being created a peer, adopted the title of ...
4 days ago · For a sketch of his career, see Mayr-Harting, Bps. of Chichester pp. 2-4, but there is no authority for his having been chaplain to William II before his appointment to Chichester, though as bp. he is addressed as a justiciar by the king, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, I, ed. H. W. C. Davis and R. J. Whitwell (Oxford, 1913) no. 424.
