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5 giorni fa · The nineteen-year conflict between King Stephen and Empress Matilda over the English crown had impacts in Worcestershire. Matilda's brother was the Earl of Gloucester, placing Worcester close to one of her most powerful allies. As war broke out in 1138, Stephen attacked Dudley Castle, held by Ralf Pagenal
3 giorni fa · 1102 – Empress Matilda, Holy Roman Empress and claimant to the English throne (probable; d. 1167) 1449 – Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, German countess (d. 1477) 1478 – Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1535) 1487 – Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (d. 1557)
6 giorni fa · Etymology. The name Gwynedd is believed to be a borrowing from early Irish (reflective of Irish settlement in the area in antiquity), either cognate with the Old Irish ethnic name Féni, "Irish People", from Primitive Irish * weidh-n-"Forest People"/"Wild People" (from Proto-Indo-European * weydh-"wood, wilderness"), or (alternatively) Old Irish fían "war band", from Proto-Irish * wēnā ...
Did empress Matilda actualy reign during Henry V voyages to rome? Empress Matilda is mostly known due to her role in the anarchy, the civil war from 1135-1154. But in her early life she was the wife of Henry V and as far as I know, whenever he wasn't around to reign, she had actual power and reigned in his place.
18 mag 2024 · By 1141 Cadwaladr and Madog ap Maredudd of Powys led a Welsh vanguard as an ally of the Earl of Chester as partisans for Empress Matilda in the Battle of Lincoln, and joined in the rout which made Stephen of England prisoner of the empress for a year. Owain, however, did not participate in the battle, keeping the Gwyneddwyr army home.
1 giorno fa · The United Nations headquarters has been situated along the East River in Midtown Manhattan since 1952; in 1945, the United States was a founding member of the UN. The United States has an established structure of foreign relations, and it has the world's second-largest diplomatic corps as of 2024.
5 giorni fa · In the south-west Matilda's supporters built a range of castles to protect the territory, usually motte and bailey designs such as those at Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, or Bampton. Similarly, Stephen built a new chain of fen-edge castles at Burwell , Lidgate , Rampton , Caxton , and Swavesey – all about six to nine miles (10–15 km) apart – in order to protect his lands around Cambridge. [79]
