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Hace 5 días · Lady Anne Clifford was the daughter and heiress of George, third Earl of Cumberland; she was born in 1590 and married successively Richard, third Earl of Dorset, and Philip, fourth Earl of Pembroke.
Hace 4 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 5 días · Henry, Lord Clifford (fn. n2), was created Earl of Cumberland in 1525. The title became extinct by the death of Henry, the fifth Earl, in 1643. The following year King Charles created his cousin, Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland; the title became extinct at his death, in 1682.
Hace 5 días · Eleanor of Provence spent the rest of her life in relative obscurity, having lost much of her influence and prestige in the wake of the conflict. She retired to a convent in Amesbury, where she died in 1291 at the age of around 68. Eleanor de Montfort, meanwhile, was left a widow and an exile after her husband‘s death.
Hace 5 días · A History of the County of Cumberland: Volume 2. A part-volume, covering the history of the religious houses in the county, including the early history of Carlisle cathedral. Victoria County History - Cumberland. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1905.
Hace 2 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 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 ...
