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Hace 2 días · HENRY, youngest son of Robert Sidney, the second earl of Leicester, having been in 1689, anno I William and Mary, created baron of Milton, and viscount Sidney of the isle of Shepey, was in 1694, created earl of Romney , being lord lieutenant of this county, lord warden of the cinque ports, and constable of Dover castle, but dying ...
Hace 2 días · In medieval Theddingworth the most important demesne holdings were those of the Trussell family in the honor of Skipton and those of the Abbot of Leicester and various lay tenants in the honor of Leicester. Robert de Meulan, Earl of Leicester, granted his land in Theddingworth to Ralph pincerna who before 1150 gave the church there ...
Hace 3 días · Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, was mistrusted by Catholics because his father was the duke of Northumberland who tried to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne. Doran does not judge if Leicester and Elizabeth had a physical relationship, but acknowledges that they had a well-known romantic one.
Hace 2 días · Thomas Harley. Brother of the 3rd Earl of Oxford of that family, and grand-nephew of the 1st Earl, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurer. Two of his daughters married respectively the 2nd Lord Rodney and the 9th Earl of Kinnoul, from which marriages the later peers are descended.
Hace 5 días · It lies on the River Soar and the Grand Union Canal. Leicester was the site of a prominent Roman settlement (Ratae Corieltauvorum) that marked the point where the Fosse Way (a Roman road) crossed the River Soar.
Hace 3 días · By the time of Henry’s death, the Angevins (England’s ruling dynasty) had secured marital alliances with the kingdoms of Castile, France and Scotland, as well as the empire. But achievement went hand-in-hand with failure. The money getting operations of Henry’s government were burdensome to the people and politically contentious.
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.
