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Hace 2 días · Dinastía Tudor. Inglaterra. La dinastía Tudor comenzó del modo más improbable: un noble oportunista y más bien insignificante que vivía desde hacía años exiliado en Francia, con muy escasa legitimidad para reinar –por no decir ninguna–, volvió en 1485 a Inglaterra, acompañado de otros exiliados y un ejército de mercenarios, y ...
Hace 4 días · Certificate that Pope Leo X., at the relation of Christopher cardinal S. Praxedis, has this day appointed Thomas Ulceus, dean of the Chapel of St. Stephen within Westminster Palace, the King's almoner, to the bishopric of Lincoln, void by death of Bishop William.
Estamos hablando de una enigmática enfermedad que asoló Inglaterra en varias oleadas entre los siglos XV y XVI, y que desapareció tan misteriosamente como llegó. Se la llamó sudor anglicus, es decir, sudor inglés, a causa de la intensa sudoración que constituía su síntoma más visible.
Hace 4 días · There were moments of great heroism and success—as when Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, Raleigh, and Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, made a second descent on Cádiz in 1596, seized the city, and burned the entire West Indian treasure fleet—but the war so gloriously begun deteriorated into a costly campaign in the Netherlands and France and ...
Hace 5 días · Northampton's nephew, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, who had fought against the Armada, succeeded his uncle in the ownership of the house which subsequently became known as Suffolk House. He was created Lord High Treasurer in 1614, but was suspended from office in 1618 for embezzling funds and extorting money unjustly.
Hace 5 días · Duke's Place, Aldgate, was so called from Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded in 1572 for his political intrigues with Mary Queen of Scots, to whose hand the weak and ambitious Catholic nobleman had aspired.
Hace 3 días · Another, the Ridolfi plot of 1571 (see Ridolfi, Roberto), called for an invasion by Spanish troops stationed in the Netherlands and for the removal of Elizabeth from the throne and resulted in the execution in 1572 of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, the ranking peer of the realm.
