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Sir. Sir William Berkeley ( 1606 - 9 juillet 1677 à Londres ), favori de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, est fait chevalier et Gouverneur de Virginie en 1641, fonction qu'il assume jusqu'à sa mort, avec une interruption de huit ans entre 1652 et 1660 lorsque le parlement protestant puritain de Londres le destitue.
24 de ago. de 2023 · Bacon’s Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677, was an uprising against Governor William Berkeley’s rule in colonial Virginia driven by an interplay of forces, including high taxes, falling tobacco prices, and escalating Anglo-Native conflicts along the western frontier. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories, novels, plays, textbooks ...
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Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) held office longer than any other governor of Virginia, colonial or modern. He was born in 1605 to Sir Maurice and Elizabeth Killigrew Berkeley, both of whom held stock in the Virginia Company of London. Educated at St. Edmund Hall and Merton College in Oxford, he subsequently studied law at the Middle Temple in ...
1 de dic. de 2005 · Extract. Toward the end of Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia, I noticed the absence of strong authorial judgments about Berkeley.Then, on the third-to-the-last page, almost as an afterword to readers who want a judgment on Berkeley, the governor of Virginia in 1676 during Bacon's rebellion, Warren M. Billings notes that Berkeley was and remains a controversial figure ...
Sir William Berkeley, the longest-serving governor of Virginia (1641–1652, 1660–1677), is the subject of this oil painting by Harriotte L. T. Montague. This work was based on a painting executed in England by Sir Peter Lely, a prominent portraitist in the seventeenth-century court. Read more about: Sir William Berkeley
William Berkeley (1605–1677) was the longest-serving royal governor of Virginia. He served as a Crown governor (an appointee of the King) between 1642 until 1652 and again from 1660 until his death in 1677. In his late twenties, Berkeley was a part of an exclusive literary circle that orbited the royal family, writing several plays and ...
