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Hace 2 días · Yet the real adversary of the Commons, supported by powerful men such as Wykeham and Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, was John of Gaunt. Both the King and Edward of Woodstock were by this time incapacitated by illness, leaving Gaunt in virtual control of government.
Hace 5 días · In the same year John of Gaunt arranged for the sale of twenty oaks from the wood of Newcastle-under-Lyme to provide money for repairs to the castle. (fn. 203) The cost of repairs to the castle and its 'houses' was estimated at 100 marks in 1375, (fn. 204) and about the same time timber was granted for making 10,000 shingles as roofing material for the 'houses' within the castle.
Hace 4 días · In 1413 Abbot Thomas was stricken with blindness, and the monks had no longer a powerful protector like John of Gaunt. The men of Holland saw a chance of trespassing with impunity. Armed men from the vills of Moulton and Weston occupied an island called 'Le Purceynt' within the bounds of the abbey for nearly a year.
Hace 2 días · It has been absurdly called the tomb of John of Gaunt , who it is well known was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. In the same wall, higher in the chancel, is another Gothic canopy with a flat arch: beneath this is a marble slab fixed sideways in the wall, which has evidently been displaced.
Hace 2 días · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
Hace 1 día · There also possible resentment at the life-grant of Guyenne to John of Gaunt, Henry's father, in which Richard II was called King of France. So, Henry changed his plans. He returned to England in June 1390 and began making preparations to depart for the Baltic. His pregnant wife, Mary, was left with John of Gaunt while her husband made ready.
Hace 2 días · Santos Silva discusses both the women who influenced Philippa during her childhood; her mother and her two step-mothers, Constanza of Castile and Katherine Swynford. Constanza’s Castilian influence on John of Gaunt’s cultured household is cited as a ‘multicultural model’ for Philippa’s own court in Portugal (p. 44).
