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4 days ago · The leper hospital of St. Lawrence, Bristol, was founded by King John when earl of Mortain, and in 1208 he gave a charter confirming the foundation. (fn. 39) The right of appointing the master was vested in the crown (fn. 40) until Henry V granted it to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
5 days ago · It is not known how this castle came to the Crown, but certain it is that on its being consumed by fire in 1428 (Henry VI.), it was rebuilt by Humphrey, the good duke of Gloucester.
3 days ago · It escheated to the Crown on Eudes's death in 1120, and remained in the king's hands, although held intermittently by hereditary constables between c. 1120 and 1214, until it was granted in tail male to Humphrey of Lancaster, later duke of Gloucester, in 1404.
2 days ago · Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester: 1397-09-08/09 England: Murder Youngest child of King Edward III of England: Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester: 1452-07-07 England: Unknown English noblewoman, second wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: Sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy. Her imprisonment and forced divorce was ...
3 days ago · During the minority of Henry VI the war caused political division among his Plantagenet uncles, Bedford, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, and Cardinal Beaufort.
1 day ago · Queen Camilla, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are all working royals who have taken on more duties since Kate’s diagnosis. Even non-working royals, like Princess Beatrice, have filled in for Kate Middleton at various engagements.
5 days ago · Years of rivalry and Suffolk’s suspected involvement in what Humphrey called the framing of Eleanor had spurred this on. Yet Humphrey would soon die of what the physician had described as a heart attack.
