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Hace 6 días · Following the surrender of Oxford in June 1646, James was taken to London and held with his younger siblings Henry, Elizabeth and Henrietta in St James's Palace. Frustrated by their inability to agree terms with Charles I, and with his brother Charles out of reach in France, Parliament considered making James king.
Hace 5 días · May 25, 2024. In the annals of polar exploration, few tales evoke a sense of mystery and tragedy quite like the lost Franklin expedition of 1845. Two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, set out from England in May of that year under the command of the esteemed Captain Sir John Franklin, an experienced navigator of the Arctic.
Hace 5 días · By his charter dated 25 February, 22 Henry VII, he granted the under-mentioned manor of Oldrugge and lands &c. and rent in Oldrugge and Escote to John Fitzjames, the younger, Thomas Lyte and Robert Bowryng, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, to the use of Edith, late his wife, for her life, without impeachment of waste; and they are still seised thereof in fee to that use.
Hace 3 días · Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, 1954–63. Author of The Benedictines: A Digest for Moderns; Thomas Becket; and others. Michael David Knowles. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- Henry II was king of England from 1154 to 1189. The first of three Angevin kings of England, he expanded the Anglo-French domains and strengthened...
- Henry, who was the duke of Aquitaine, had a claim to the English throne, and he invaded England in 1153. King Stephen agreed to accept Henry as his...
- Henry acquired most of the Continental possessions that would expand the kingdom of England before he became king in 1154. He inherited the duchy o...
- Determined to assert his rights in all his lands, Henry II reasserted the centralized power of his grandfather, Henry I, in England. He issued the...
- Henry II’s plans to divide the Angevin “empire” among his sons led to many quarrels and wars. Of his five sons, only Richard and John survived his...
Hace 3 días · He's beginning to suspect that the curse of age was that you still did the same bad and stupid things, but now you knew they were bad while you did them. Francis and Sophia are getting married, James is getting drunk, and Henry's getting out of here as soon as humanly possible — if only he can convince his heartbroken best friend to leave ...
Hace 2 días · The beginning of the college was a plot of land, bought by Walter de Merton, 11 Jan. 1266, from the Abbot of Reading, extending southward from the street almost to the city wall; it is described as a plot of ground, formerly built upon, lying on the west side of the church, to which pertains the advowson of the church. (fn. 1) It was unusual tha...
Hace 3 días · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.
