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2 giorni fa · The Restoration had a dramatic effect on the political landscape at Gloucester. The government and royalist landowners moved decisively to bring to an end the city's fiercely defended autonomy, its extensive jurisdiction over the inshire, and the puritan ascendancy on the corporation.
19 minuti fa · Henry I ( c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus inherited Normandy and England ...
2 giorni fa · In response, in July Matilda and Robert of Gloucester besieged Henry of Blois in his episcopal castle at Winchester, using the royal castle in the city as the base for their operations.
5 giorni fa · 1941 - Giorgio Bissoli, calciatore italiano († 2007) 1941 - Ralf D. Bode, direttore della fotografia tedesco († 2001) 1941 - Bonvi, fumettista italiano († 1995) 1941 - Valerie Curtin, attrice e sceneggiatrice statunitense. 1941 - Faith Leech, nuotatrice australiana († 2013) 1941 - Claudio Procesi, matematico italiano.
2 giorni fa · Gloucester was renowned during the Civil War and afterwards as a parliamentary and puritan stronghold. In 1642 the Presbyterian Richard Baxter praised the inhabitants as 'a civil, courteous, and religious people', while Thomas Pury, one of the city's M.P.s, was a prominent zealot in the Long Parliament.
3 giorni fa · Gloucester's major firms survived the depression of the early 1930s. The engineering firm of W. S. Barron & Son was building a factory in Bristol Road in 1934 when it started a collaboration with the milling engineers Henry Simon Ltd. of Stockport (Ches.).
4 giorni fa · Sant'Enrico II, Incoronazione, 1002-1014 ca. Non si può comprendere a fondo la sua vita prescindendo dalla forte formazione cristiana ricevuta fin dalla più tenera età. Figlio del duca di Baviera, Enrico nasce a Bamberga nel 973 e cresce in un ambiente profondamente cristiano.
