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1 giorno fa · Life France, Aquitaine and Poitiers in 1154 with the expansion of the Plantagenet lands. Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence (1124–1137), marriage to Louis VII and Queen of France (1137–1152), marriage to Henry II and Queen of England (1152–1173), imprisonment to Henry's death (1173–1189) and as a widow till ...
3 giorni fa · Later Prince of Wales; Henry VIII, King of England 247 Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland: 1478–1527 c.1499 248 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham: 1478–1521 c.1499 Degraded 1521 249 Charles Somerset: c. 1460–1526 c.1490 Later Earl of Worcester 250 Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk: c. 1471–1513 c.1499 Degraded 1501 251
2 giorni fa · Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG, PC, Earl Marshal, Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Admiral, Lord Protector of England in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549 (1552) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of Edward VI of England for plotting murder of John Dudley
2 giorni fa · It was rebuilt by Edward I at a cost of over £300 and again by Henry VIII in 1519; the current building dates from this period, although the chapel was refurbished in the 19th century. Immediately west of Wakefield Tower, the Bloody Tower was built at the same time as the inner ward's curtain wall, and as a water-gate provided access to the castle from the River Thames.
3 giorni fa · Then, once Cromwell had returned to England, the English Commissary, General Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law and key adviser, adopted a deliberate policy of crop burning and starvation. Total excess deaths for the entire period of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Ireland was estimated by Sir William Petty , the 17th-century economist, to be 600,000 out of a total Irish population of ...
4 giorni fa · Marcher-Earls of Pembroke. Wales. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1199–1219) William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1219–1231) Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1231–1234) Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1234–1241) Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1242–1245) 21.
2 giorni fa · From the accession of Henry VII. to the death of Henry VIII. The battle at Bosworth finally decided the disputes between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which so much English blood had been shed. Henry VII. was the victorious representative of the house of Lancaster, and the male heirs of Edward IV. being now dead, he united the claims of ...
