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Hace 3 días · LEICESTER SQUARE, ABOUT 1750. Leicester House was the abode of the Sidneys—that noble family of which, in the sixteenth century, Sir Henry Sidney, "the wisest, greatest, and justest Lord-Deputy Ireland ever had," and his more famous son Philip, were the great ornaments.
Hace 4 días · Leicester Place (see Frontispiece) and the buildings on both sides of it stand on part of the site formerly occupied by Leicester House and its garden and outbuildings. The site was acquired in 1791 or 1792 by Thomas Wright of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, (fn. 2) a banker in the firm of Wright, Selby and Robinson, and Leicester House was demolished at about the same time.
Hace 3 días · THE south side of Leicester Square (which, like the east side, is in the parish of St. Martin, see fig. 94 on page 417) was the earliest to be developed, although when the first houses were built here in the 1660's Lord Leicester's concept of a great square may not yet have taken precise shape.
Hace 3 días · Mother. Cecily Neville. Signature. 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. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England .
Hace 3 días · Edward I [a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly ...
Hace 3 días · Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s right-hand man and Archbishop of York, died in Leicester in the winter of 1530, and was buried in Leicester Abbey in the modern-day Abbey Park. His fate has remained a mystery for centuries, and, despite numerous digs having taken place at Abbey Park, his remains have never been located.
Hace 1 día · Claudio Ranieri Grande Ufficiale OMRI [3] ( Italian: [ˈklaudjo raˈnjeːri, -ˈnjɛː-]; born 20 October 1951) is an Italian retired professional footballer and manager. He is best known for winning the 2015–16 Premier League with Leicester City, one of the greatest sporting shocks in history. Ranieri began his managerial career in the lower ...
