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3 days ago · Hardingstone has one of three surviving Eleanor Crosses from the 12 ordered by Edward I to commemorate his beloved wife, Eleanor of Castile. Eleanor died at Harby, near Lincoln, in 1290 and a cross was subsequently erected at every point where the cortege carrying her body rested on its long journey south to Westminster.
3 days ago · Cheapside Cross, one of the nine crosses erected by Edward I., that soldier king, to mark the restingplaces of the body of his beloved queen, Eleanor of Castile, on its way from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey, stood in the middle of the road facing Wood Street.
5 days ago · It is of great historic interest, being one of the three remaining 'Eleanor' crosses, and is a beautiful example of late 13th-century architecture, as, although the figures and the upper part of the monument have been restored, much of the original work remains.
4 days ago · The following list contains blazons of all arms, earlier than 1850, mentioned in the five volumes of the Dorset Inventory. The blazons are those which appeared at the time of survey and are not always the version generally accepted as correct.
1 day ago · The House of Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər) [1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [2] They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois.
14 hours ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. Thursday, 27 July 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.
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3 days ago · Eleanor, Queen of Castile (1161–1214) – married King Alfonso VIII of Castile. The couple's children included King Henry I of Castile and four queen consorts, Berengaria of Leon , Urraca of Portugal , Blanche of France and Eleanor of Aragon .
