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5 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 ...
- Edward II
Background. Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I, King...
- Henry III
Henry was born in Winchester Castle on 1 October 1207. He...
- Talk
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- Lord of Ireland
1 A commission of Edward IV into the arms of Ireland found...
- Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 November 1290) was Queen of...
- Eleanor of Provence
Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291) was a...
- Conquest of Wales by Edward I
The conquest of Wales by Edward I took place between 1277...
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- William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas,...
- Edward II
3 days ago · The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also Counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
- 12th century
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
2 days ago · The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was an intermittent conflict between England and France lasting 116 years. It began principally because King Edward III (r. 1327-1377) and Philip VI (r. 1328-1350) escalated a dispute over feudal rights in Gascony to a battle for the French Crown. The French eventually won and gained control of all of France ...
- Mark Cartwright
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3 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
5 days ago · Gaston, duke d’Orléans (born April 25, 1608, Fontainebleau, Fr.—died Feb. 2, 1660, Blois) was a prince who readily lent his prestige to several unsuccessful conspiracies and revolts against the ministerial governments during the reign of his brother, King Louis XIII (ruled 1610–43), and the minority of his nephew, Louis XIV (ruled 1643 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · The Duchy of Cornwall is, of course, the private estate (687 years old and covering just over 200 square miles) of the Prince of Wales. These plans were a pet project of Charles III, from the time ...
5 days ago · Matthew Bunson, December 28, 2022. Exactly 400 years ago today, St. Francis de Sales ended his days in the same way he had lived most of them — having labored to his very last breath for the salvation of souls and the call for everyone to be saints. The future doctor of the Church and long-time bishop of Geneva had been on the road to Lyons ...
