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4 giorni fa · Lady Elizabeth Greville in 1562 gave twelve black gowns to twelve poor widows for ever. In the returns under Gilbert's Act in 1786 this gift is said to have been a rentcharge of £5 10s. given by will and to have been paid by the Earl of Warwick.
3 giorni fa · One grander house dated from the same period. In the 1780s a marine villa was built at the south end of High Street on its east side, which after enlargement in 1790 for George Greville, earl of Warwick (d. 1816), was known as Warwick House.
2 giorni fa · The oldest monument in the church is that in memory of Thomas Beauchamp I, Earl of Warwick (d. 1369). It is in the choir and is of alabaster, but it was much damaged in the fire of 1694 and was extensively repaired in plaster. The earl lies with the Countess of Warwick on his right.
5 giorni fa · This is a list of the various different nobles and magnates including both lords spiritual and lords secular. It also includes nobles who were vassals of the king but were not based in England (Welsh, Irish, French). Additionally nobles of lesser rank who appear to have been prominent in England at the time.
2 giorni fa · The earls of Warwick and Salisbury, with York’s son Edward, used Calais as a base from which to invade England, landing at Sandwich in 1460. A brief battle at Northampton in July went overwhelmingly for the Yorkists, and the king was captured.
2 giorni fa · The protector’s successor and the man largely responsible for his fall was John Dudley, earl of Warwick, who became duke of Northumberland. The duke was a man of action who represented most of the acquisitive aspects of the landed elements in society and who allied himself with the extreme section of the Protestant reformers.
1 giorno fa · Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. [a] The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. [2]
