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5 giorni fa · List of nobles and magnates of England in the 13th century. During the 13th century England was partially ruled by Archbishops, Bishops, Earls (Counts), Barons, marcher Lords, and knights. All of these except for the knights would always hold most of their fiefs as tenant in chief.
2 giorni fa · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
4 giorni fa · Any name on this list though should make for a great name or maybe as a cool middle name. There are quite a few variants of names associated with bear, and wolf. Both animals were admired for their strength and cunning, in the Viking Age.
2 giorni fa · This volume sets out to fill a significant historiographical void, and by providing the first major overview of the role of the monastic superior in medieval England. Heale opens his study with a chapter on ‘Election and selection’, which explores how men came to be abbots or priors.
4 giorni fa · This is the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England. The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it. As to the medieval histories of Scotland and Wales:
4 giorni fa · Henwald's Lowe became common land, and its name, a combination of an Old English personal name and Old English hlaw, 'mound' or 'hill', may indicate an early aristocratic burial. In 893 Vikings raided Chester, then 'a deserted city in Wirral'.
4 giorni fa · Knight, now a title of honor bestowed for a variety of services, but originally in the European Middle Ages a formally professed cavalryman. The first medieval knights were professional cavalry warriors, some of whom were vassals holding lands as fiefs from the lords in whose armies they served.
