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  2. 4 days ago · He was Earl of Leicester (1265–1296), Lancaster (1267–1296) and Derby (1269–1296) in England and Count Palatine of Champagne (1276–1284) in France. Named after the 9th-century saint , Edmund was the second surviving son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence and the younger brother of King Edward I of England , to whom he ...

  3. 16 hours 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 5 days ago · London, Continuum, 2008, ISBN: 9781847252395; 256pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an accessible and engaging book about the ranks, obligations, and image of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, written by one of the leading historians of the period. Ann Williams is the author of The English and the Norman Conquest, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest ...

  6. 5 days ago · circa 1513. Birthplace: Kingston, Sussex, , England. Death: circa 1590 (67-85) Immediate Family: Daughter of Edward Lewknor, I and Sibella Lewknor. Wife of Sir William Wroughton, MP and Sir Giles Poole, MP. Mother of Dorothy Thynne; William Wroughton; Anne Poole; Sir Thomas Wroughton, of Broad Hinton; James Wroughton, MP and 2 others.

  7. 4 days ago · Queen Mary, who was born on 26 May 1967, was a royal at birth being the great-granddaughter of King George III. Mary was initially betrothed to Prince Albert, but following his death, she became ...

  8. 5 days ago · This was one of the appendages to the abbey of Abingdon, whose abbots had a residence here called Cumner Hall, now in ruins, which is noted as the place of the murder of the Countess of Leicester by the direction of her husband, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth: many of the scenes of Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth are connected with the locality.

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