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Hace 2 días · Siege of Namur. William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from ...
Hace 2 días · The term Angevin Empire ( / ˈændʒɪvɪn /; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly all of present-day England, half of France, and parts of Ireland and Wales, and had further influence over much of the remaining British ...
Hace 4 días · The House of Hohenzollern ( / ˌhoʊənˈzɒlərn /, US also /- nˈzɔːl -, - ntˈsɔːl -/; [1] [2] [3] [4] German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Br...
Hace 1 día · Introduction. Nestled in the picturesque countryside of Derbyshire, England, Bolsover Castle stands as a testament to the grandeur and extravagance of 17th-century aristocratic life. This remarkable manor house, built on the site of a medieval fortress, offers visitors a captivating glimpse into the world of the English nobility during a time ...
Hace 4 días · Price: £50.00. With The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine and Sin, Stephen Brogan offers a new understanding of the royal touch – the ability of kings and queens to miraculously heal their subjects of particular diseases in 16th and especially 17th-century England.
Hace 4 días · Wilton situated at a strategic point on the river systems of southern Wiltshire (fn. 1) was an obvious choice as a place of settlement by the migrants from the south, who about the middle of the 6th century founded the kingdom of Wessex. How early Wilton became the royal seat of the kingdom is unknown, but evidence of the 9th century shows it ...
Hace 3 días · In July, 1547, Long Acre and Covent Garden were granted (fn. 26) to Edward, Duke of Somerset, the Protector, who, four years later, in December, 1551, was sentenced to death in Westminster Hall. We are told that the people "supposing he had been clerely quitt, when they see the axe of the Tower put downe, made such a shryke and castinge up of ...
