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Hace 6 días · He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England . Richard was created Duke of Gloucester in 1461 after the accession of his brother Edward IV.
Hace 5 días · Gloucester: The Duchess of Gloucester is the widow of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. His murder (before the play opens) drives much of the action of Richard II. The Earl of Gloucester is the father of Edgar and Edmund, who has his eyes put out by the Duke of Cornwall, in King Lear.
Hace 4 días · In 1975, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, an aunt of Elizabeth II, became the first woman to reach the highest rank, Dame Grand Cross. Princess Alice (née Douglas-Montagu-Scott) was a direct descendant of the Order's first Great Master, [56] and her husband, who had died the previous year, had also held that office.
Hace 4 días · Traffic was channelled into Lechlade and the bridge from Cirencester, from Gloucester by the Welsh way which met the Cirencester road at Fairford, and from the north part of the Cotswolds by the Droitwich salt-way through Hatherop.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 3 días · GLOUCESTER CASTLE. A castle was built at Gloucester soon after the Norman Conquest, 16 houses having been demolished to make way for it. It was placed in the custody of the sheriff of the county, Roger of Gloucester.
Hace 3 días · Lucy Walter and Charles II are ancestors of Sarah, Duchess of York and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland and Charles II are ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York.
