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4 giorni fa · The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the Houses of Lancaster and York, two of the Plantagenets cadet branches.
3 giorni fa · Geoffrey took advantage of the confusion to attack the Duchy of Normandy but played no direct role in the English conflict, leaving this to Matilda and her powerful illegitimate half-brother Robert, Earl of Gloucester.
4 giorni fa · Gloucester's varied collection of religious foundations provided objects of piety to suit all tastes and a stream of gifts of land and rents was directed towards them by the burgesses of the 12th and 13th centuries.
5 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 · The first reverse for the city's puritan leaders came in 1617. William Laud, newly appointed dean of Gloucester, moved the communion table from the middle of the cathedral choir to the east end.
4 giorni fa · 1951 - Marietta Giannakou, politica greca († 2022) 1951 - Mark Harelik, attore e commediografo statunitense. 1951 - Silvio Longobucco, calciatore italiano († 2022) 1951 - Jean-Luc Monschau, ex cestista e allenatore di pallacanestro francese. 1951 - Gaetano Sateriale, politico, sindacalista e saggista italiano.
4 giorni fa · 1943 - David Soul, attore e cantautore statunitense († 2024) 1944 - Paolo Bertetto, storico del cinema italiano. 1944 - Boyd Coddington, designer statunitense († 2008) 1944 - Roger De Coster, pilota motociclistico belga. 1944 - Mario Ferraguti, ex calciatore italiano. 1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, ex nuotatrice olandese.
