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Hace 2 días · The Personal Characteristics and Motivations of Beaufort and York. Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, was described by contemporaries as a brave and chivalrous knight, but also as a man of great ambition and pride. He had distinguished himself in the latter stages of the Hundred Years‘ War, serving as Lieutenant-General in France from 1446 to ...
Hace 4 días · From those early days in the 16th century, when it was the well-loved home of Sir Thomas More, until the 18th, when it was the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, it yielded to no other house in importance, not to King Henry VIII's manor house in Cheyne Walk, nor to the Earl of Shrewsbury's mansion, nor to the old manor house with which it ...
Hace 4 días · 1st Earl of Somerset: Edward of Westminster 1453–1471 Prince of Wales: Isabel of Cambridge Countess of Essex 1409–1484: Henry Bourchier c. 1404 –1483 1st Earl of Essex: Richard of York 1411–1460 3rd Duke of York: Cecily Neville Duchess of York 1415–1495: John Beaufort 1403–1444 1st Duke of Somerset: Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso 1405 ...
Hace 3 días · After a brief first marriage in 1933, Margaret wed Ian Douglas Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll, in 1951. The Duchess devoted herself to restoring the Duke‘s family estate, pouring her fortune into revitalizing the gothic Inveraray Castle in Scotland.
Hace 2 días · Beaufort, Duke of Exeter. — Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, (son of John of Gaunt,) who led the rereward at the battle of Agincourt, between the forfeiture of that title and its restoration to the Holland family, was, in 1416, created Duke of Exeter for life; and among other grants had a pension of 40 l . per annum assigned him ...
Hace 3 días · HEYTHROP. Heythrop, a parish of 1,763 a. (713.5 ha.), comprises the townships of Heythrop and Dunthrop. Although united early for ecclesiastical purposes and later for civil purposes, the townships lay in separate hundreds.
Hace 2 días · The death of James, it seemed, secured the Duke’s position under the new king, Charles I, and removed the main obstacle to their plans for war. The consequences of Buckingham’s administration of medicine to the dying King, as Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell show in their fascinating, landmark new book, were seismic.
