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3 giorni fa · Though she ruled Scotland rather than England, Mary Stuart‘s life was inextricably intertwined with the Tudor dynasty, especially her rivalry with her cousin, Elizabeth I. Becoming queen of Scotland as an infant, Mary was raised in the French court and briefly reigned as queen consort of France after marrying the French dauphin in 1558.
5 giorni fa · The first, available here, takes focuses on Mary Howard/Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, 1555, cousin to Queen Anne Boleyn and wife of the King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy. The second podcast explores the ways in which women circumvented patriarchy during the sixteenth-century, from managing huge estates to their roles ...
2 giorni fa · James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality, which he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century.
3 giorni fa · After the Dissolution, in 1539, the estates of Combe were granted for life to Mary, Duchess of Richmond, and in 1545 she and Thomas Broke, merchant tailor of London, to whom the reversion had been granted, were licensed to alienate the manor of Churchover to William Dixwell, who was already tenant of part of the land.
2 giorni fa · The east side of the chapel is defaced by a clumsy pyramid of black and white marble supporting a small urn containing the heart of Esme Stuart, son of the Duke of Richmond and Lenox, by the Lady Mary, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham.
4 giorni fa · Its value in 1535 is not separately recorded; the post-Dissolution grantee (1539) was Mary, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset. (fn. 81) Two acres of woodland in Hopsford, with 2 messuages and 3½ virgates of land in Withybrook, were in 1340 granted by Sir Thomas de Astley to the chantry in Astley church, later converted into a college ...
1 giorno fa · She was born to an overweight German duchess who fled Britain due to her debts. On this day in 1867, Mary of Teck arrived into the world at Kensington Palace, with Queen Victoria describing her as ...
