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Hace 1 día · Listed Building – Grade II. Location of the castle in central London. The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern ...
Hace 14 horas · Parliament was afraid that the former James II or his supporters, known as Jacobites, might attempt to reclaim the throne. Parliament passed the Act of Settlement 1701 , which excluded James and his Catholic relations from the succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of Sophia, Electress of Hanover , next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. [66]
Hace 4 días · The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia , an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain .
Hace 2 días · Instead, King James set about creating a unified Church of Scotland and England, as the first step towards a centralised, Unionist state. However, despite both being nominally Episcopal in structure, the two were very different in doctrine; the Church of Scotland , or kirk, was Calvinist in doctrine, and viewed many Church of England practices as little better than Catholicism. [13]
Hace 2 días · Life France, Aquitaine and Poitiers in 1154 with the expansion of the Plantagenet lands. Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence (1124–1137), marriage to Louis VII and Queen of France (1137–1152), marriage to Henry II and Queen of England (1152–1173), imprisonment to Henry's death (1173–1189) and as a widow till ...
Hace 3 días · Queen of England: Philip II 1527–1598 King of Spain r. 1553–1558 Jure uxoris: Henry FitzRoy 1519–1536 Duke of Richmond and Somerset: Queen Elizabeth I 1533–1603 r. 1558–1603 Queen of England: King Edward VI 1537–1553 r. 1547–1553 King of England: Francis II 1544–1560 King of France: Queen Mary I 1542–1587 Mary Queen of Scots ...
Hace 1 día · Louis sought to avoid conflict over the issue through direct negotiation with his main opponent William III of England, while excluding the Spanish. Leopold and Margaret's daughter Maria Antonia (1669–1692) married Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1685, and on 28 October 1692, they had a son, Joseph Ferdinand.
