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Hace 5 días · On this day in Tudor history, 29th April, William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre of Gilsland and 7th Baron Greystoke, was born; Queen Anne Boleyn had an altercation with groom of the Stool Sir Henry Norris; Lady Jean Gordon started divorce proceedings against the Earl of Bothwell; and Sir Dru Drury died...
Hace 3 días · James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was generally believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but he was acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following month, he married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.
Hace 3 días · Three months after the murder of Darnley at Kirk o' Field in 1567, she married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, one of the chief murder suspects. A large proportion of the nobility rebelled, resulting ultimately in the imprisonment and forced abdication of Mary at Lochleven Castle .
Hace 3 días · Bothwell also notes that she probably recognised the precariousness of her own position after the King had died—"which it was obvious to all in the 1370s was imminent" —and intended much of her wealth to provide for her two daughters, whose lives would be even more precarious in the following reign.
Hace 5 días · Before 1213, he married Euphemia, daughter of Walter fitz Alan and had one son with her, Patrick (d.1289). Upon his father's death in December 1232, Patrick (II) succeeded as fifth earl of Dunbar. He went on crusade in 1247 and died at the siege of Damietta in Egypt in 1248. In F. Watson, 'Patrick Dunbar, eighth earl of Dunbar or of ...
Hace 3 días · Biography. Gilbert was the son and heir of Ferteth, earl of Strathearn and inherited the earldom on his father's death in 1171; he had at least one brother, Malise. The family was Celtic in origin. He is found living between 1171 and 1223, and may have been born before 1164 and perhaps circa 1150.
Hace 3 días · First to be explored is how the earldom of Norfolk came into being – how the fortunes of the Bigod family were made. By 1107, Morris shows, the Bigods had become 'barons of the first rank' (p. 1) and by 1166 were the fifth richest family in England.
