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Hace 2 días · De Braose was subjected to punitive demands for money, and when he refused to pay a huge sum of 40,000 marks (equivalent to £26,666 at the time), his wife, Maud, and one of their sons were imprisoned by John, which resulted in their deaths. De Braose died in exile in 1211, and his grandsons remained in prison until 1218.
Hace 1 día · Clewer Park, the residence of Mrs. Mosscockle, is a large three-story stucco mansion, standing in its own grounds on the river bank just to the east of the Windsor race-course. St. Leonard's Hill, (fn. 5) formerly called Gloucester Lodge, was built by Thomas Sandby (1721–98) for the Countess of Waldegrave.
Hace 3 días · CHAPTER II. The Lords of Cardiff. ROBERT FITZ HAMON — 1093—1107. ROBERT CONSUL — 1118 (or earlier)—1147. WILLIAM, EARL OF GLOUCESTER — 1147—1183. JOHN, EARL OF MORTAINE (afterwards King) — 1189–1214. GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, EARL OF ESSEX AND GLOUCESTER, and his COUNTESS, ISABEL— 1214 — 1217.
Hace 1 día · Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy , she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V .
Hace 4 días · Thomas de Ingaldesthorp was lord in the 8th of King John, and in the 3d of Edward I. John de Ingaldesthorp was found to hold a knight's fee in this town, and Wigenhale, and had the assise of bread, beer, &c. he also held lands of the Bishop of Ely, and of William de Terrington, paying to them 31s. per ann. Thomas de Ingaldesthorp had a charter of free-warren in his lands here, at Snetesham, &c ...
Hace 4 días · In 1269 William, Lord Braose, granted to Durford abbey lands, a mill, and 4 a. of meadow in the southwest part of the parish called la Holeney, together with pasture rights in nearby Brookwood. The gift was confirmed in 1290 after a dispute.
Hace 4 días · Basking in the premise of Blaise Pascal’s philosophical “Wager” on the existence of God, timid engineer Jean-Louis is torn between Françoise, the angelic blonde he’s glimpsed at Mass and secretly vowed to marry, and Maud, the seductive brunette atheist who invites him to spend a snowy winter’s night in her apartment.
