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20 mag 2024 · 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
8 mag 2024 · The piece of music starts with musical scenes of Lincoln in flames and smoke as an invasion ensues. Forces of Empress Matilda, led by her illegitimate half brother Robert, first Earl of Gloucester invade the city to do battle with soldiers fighting to defend the city for King Stephen.
4 giorni fa · 31. Hawaii, U.S. Aikau, a Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer, disappeared on 17 March 1978 when he was lost at sea while attempting to reach the island of Lanai on a surfboard. The long-distance Hawaiian outrigger, the Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai.
20 mag 2024 · 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]
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22 mag 2024 · 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)
20 mag 2024 · Deborah Castle. St Peter's Collegiate Church is located in central Wolverhampton, England. For many centuries it was a chapel royal and from 1480 a royal peculiar, independent of the Diocese of Lichfield and even the Province of Canterbury. The collegiate church was central to the development of the town of Wolverhampton, much of which belonged ...
