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Hace 4 días · John of Gloucester ( ill.) Katherine, Countess of Pembroke ( ill.) Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York.
Hace 4 días · This is a list of the various different nobles and magnates including both lords spiritual and lords secular. It also includes nobles who were vassals of the king but were not based in England (Welsh, Irish, French). Additionally nobles of lesser rank who appear to have been prominent in England at the time.
Hace 4 días · The staples of Gloucester's trade in the mid 19th century were timber and grain imports. The timber came mainly from the Baltic and Canada and the trade was dominated by local firms such as Price & Co., John Forster & Co., and Robert Heane & Co. in 1850, when the Hull firm of Barkworth & Spaldin established a Gloucester branch.
Hace 4 días · By 1642 two preachers from London, invited by a nonconformist group under the curate of Whaddon, presumably the Independent John Wells, had gained converts in Gloucester. The converts, who were baptized, many in the river Severn, were later described as Baptists or Anabaptists and their meeting flourished in the mid 1640s.
Hace 5 días · After repudiating his first wife, Isabella of Gloucester, John married the fiancée of Hugh IX the Brown of the Lusignan family, one of his vassals in Poitou. For this offense he was summoned to answer to Philip II, his feudal overlord for his holdings in France. When John refused to attend, his lands in France were declared forfeit.
Hace 3 días · Conservative representation between 1869 and 1871 was reduced to a single councillor, John Ward. The Liberals favoured economy with efficiency and generally avoided costly projects. They later portrayed that period as one of financial recovery.
Hace 4 días · Edward is credited with many accomplishments, including restoring royal authority after the reign of Henry III and establishing Parliament as a permanent institution, which allowed for a functional system for raising taxes and reforming the law through statutes.
