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Hace 5 días · The Earl's Palace in Birsay, Orkney,is a ruined 16th-century castle. It was built by Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney (1533–1593), illegitimate son of King James V and his mistress Euphemia Elphinstone. The palace is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is ...
Hace 3 días · archaeology. Scotland: An Archaeologist's View of Orkney and Shetland. Orkney. 6 Days. Moderate. departures: Select Your Departure Date. View Tours. Discover the Archaeology of Orkney and Shetland on tour with Brightwater Holidays. Visit Mousa, Jarlshof, Scalloway, Skara Brae and much more.
Hace 5 días · Baronets. Musgrave of Edenhall, 1611. — The Musgraves are descended from the ancient baronial family of Musgrave in Westmorland. Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469 or 1470, married the elder daughter and coheir of Stapleton of Edenhall. His descendant, Sir Richard, who had been made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James, was ...
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 · Port Map. Schedule. Wiki. Hotels. News. Port Kirkwall cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Kirkwall, Orkney Island Scotland.
Hace 2 días · After Cromwell's death, Rich took an active part in the persecution of the reformers, and of those who would not subscribe to the king's supremacy; thus in July 1540 Robert Barnes, William Hierome, vicar of Stepney, and Thomas Garret were burnt in front of the church of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield for preaching doctrines contrary to the Six Articles; and on the same day three others, Powel ...
Hace 5 días · He received a grant in 1562 of the castle and of many properties in Warwick formerly belonging to his father, with the reversions to such as had been leased out in the meantime by the Crown, and he held them until his death in 1590 without surviving children, when, his brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, being already dead, his estates came again into the queen's hands.
