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2 days ago · Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke (born c. 1130—died April 20, 1176, Dublin, Ire.) was an Anglo-Norman lord whose invasion of Ireland in 1170 initiated the opening phase of the English conquest. The son of Gilbert FitzGilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, he succeeded to his father’s estates in southern Wales in 1148/49.
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4 days ago · Henry I 1068-1135, king, fourth son of William the Conqueror and Matilda, was born, it is said, at Selby in Yorkshire (Monasticon, iii. 485; Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv. 231, 791), in the latter half of 1068, his mother having been crowned queen on the previous Whitsunday (Orderic, p. 510).
3 days ago · Charts. An ancestor chart is the best way to visualise a family tree. A chart can be designed to suit the family. Charts can be structured in many different ways, including: All the ancestors of a single person. All the descendants of a single ancestor. An ‘hourglass’ chart of all the ancestors and descendants of a single person or couple.
3 days ago · Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts. 1. 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London. Answer: Queen Elizabeth II. In 1926, the grand townhouse at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair belonged to the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. It became the birthplace of his granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, on 21 April that year.
3 days ago · Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick (born January 25/28, 1382, Salwarpe, Worcestershire, England—died April 30, 1439, Rouen, France) was a soldier and diplomatist, a knightly hero who served the English kings Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. (Read Sir Walter Scott’s 1824 Britannica essay on chivalry.) Richard Beauchamp succeeded his ...
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3 days ago · Edmund Berry Godfrey was born in Sellindge, Kent, between Hythe and Ashford, the eleventh son of eighteen children born to Thomas Godfrey (1586–1664), a member of an old Kentish family [1] and his second wife Sarah, née Isles. He was named after his godfathers, Edmund Harrison and Captain John Berrie (which led to the misconception that his ...
5 days ago · Genealogy for Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin (1732 - 1771) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
