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1 day ago · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland and the ...
4 days ago · Queen of England: Philip II 1527–1598 King of Spain r. 1553–1558 Jure uxoris: Henry FitzRoy 1519–1536 Duke of Richmond and Somerset: Queen Elizabeth I 1533–1603 r. 1558–1603 Queen of England: King Edward VI 1537–1553 r. 1547–1553 King of England: Francis II 1544–1560 King of France: Queen Mary I 1542–1587 Mary Queen of Scots ...
2 days ago · Date: Attestation of Warin Fitz Gerold as chamberlain. He was succeeded by his brother Henry before the king left England 14 Aug. 1158 (Eyton, Itinerary, 39–40). The witnesses all attest charters issued by Henry at Dover, 2 × 10 Jan. 1156 (ibid., 15–16).
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3 days ago · house of Windsor, the royal house of the United Kingdom, which succeeded the house of Hanover on the death of its last monarch, Queen Victoria, on January 22, 1901. The dynasty includes Edward VII (reigned 1901–10), George V (1910–36), Edward VIII (1936), George VI (1936–52), Elizabeth II (1952–2022), and Charles III (2022– ).
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2 days ago · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
2 days ago · 'There can be no doubt whatsoever that the concept of nobility was widening and deepening in twelfth-century England' (p. 35), Coss emphatically asserts. It was under Henry II that Hugh Thomas has identified many features familiar later, such as bastard feudalism, bastard feudal perversions of justice, county solidarity, and service to the crown.
5 days ago · He died the 12th of Henry II, 1165, and was succeeded by his only son. William de Ferrers, earl of Ferrers and Derby; he certified the second of Henry II, the knights fees he then held to be 79 in number; he confirmed his ancestors grants to the monks of Tutbury, and was a benefactor to the knights hospitallers.
