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Hace 5 días · The Death of Henry II and Eleanor‘s Release. The death of Henry II in 1189 marked a turning point in Eleanor‘s life. With her eldest son, Richard, now king, Eleanor was finally released from her long imprisonment. At the age of 67, when most women of her time were expected to retire from public life, Eleanor emerged from captivity ...
Hace 1 día · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
Hace 4 días · At Cockermouth are considerable manufactories of cotton, linen, and woollen, and the tanning and currying trade is carried on to a great extent. There was a chapel at this place before the year 1394; the present structure was built in 1711; the old tower remains. The Earl of Lonsdale is patron of the curacy.
Hace 3 días · All four women and their mother, the dowager countess of Provence, were present at the meeting at Paris in 1254 between Henry III and Louis IX (pp. 136-138). Yet Howell finds it only ‘incidentally interesting that the family structure which underlay the 1254 meeting depended on a group of five women’ (p. 138).
Hace 5 días · The venerable and extensive ruins are pleasingly situated on a woody eminence, at the confluence of two streams; and near them is a handsome pillar, embellished with heraldic bearings, and surmounted by a small obelisk, erected in 1656, by the countess, as a memorial of her last parting with her mother, the Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the spot, April 2nd, 1616.
Hace 3 días · WHITEHAVEN, now the most populous town in Cumberland, and the most populous in the North of England except Newcastle and York, has no parochial rights, but is still considered as one of the townships of St. Bees. Figure 31: Plan of Whitehaven. The manor of Whitehaven, called in ancient records Whyttothaven (i. e.
Hace 3 días · Now an assistant professor at Cambridge University, Dr Annouchka Bayley remembers her first encounter with the countess's story. "One day we had the usual delivery when you had to put all the ...
