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Hace 5 días · List of nobles and magnates of England in the 13th century. During the 13th century England was partially ruled by Archbishops, Bishops, Earls (Counts), Barons, marcher Lords, and knights. All of these except for the knights would always hold most of their fiefs as tenant in chief.
Hace 2 días · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
Hace 2 días · The number of knights fell during the thirteenth century, from perhaps 5000 to a quarter of that number, as military service declined and the costs of knighthood both in time and money increased. Most families of milituli gave up being knighted.
Hace 2 días · The bishops in 13th-century England have often received individual historiographical attention as key figures; the likes of Stephen Langton and Peter des Roches as major political actors, or Robert Grosseteste and John Pecham as intellectuals and ecclesiastical administrators.
Hace 2 días · And, as a corollary to this, do the late Middle Ages confirm what we know of the post-Conquest period, that is that the clan or corporate kinship system no longer operated in England? Dr. Sam Worby’s book, Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England, seeks the answer to these questions.
Hace 3 días · Some ruled as regents for absent kings or underage sons, some were key political and military players in their own right, and a few even fought for the throne themselves. In this article, we‘ll explore the lives and legacies of some of the most remarkable women ever to wear the crown of England in the Middle Ages.
Hace 5 días · As a prosperous, protected and minority group of moneylenders, the Jews had suffered discrimination in England since the late twelfth century. During the thirteenth century, a concatenation of factors conspired to increase anti-Jewish sentiment to levels that were without parallel in Western Europe.
