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Hace 4 días · Others “muse as much at tother side, at his sudden departure from the Diet without leavetaking.” The ambassadors of Cleves have no hope of agreement about religion, as the Emperor condescends to nothing till he have referred it to the bp. of Rome, and the Protestants till they have referred it to their apostle, Dr. Martyn. Cleves, 8 July 1541.
Hace 4 días · Heard that the King of England was wishing to take again the sister of the Duke of Cleves, which, according to Chapuys' discourse with the Clerk of the Council, seems unlikely; and yet he must have an eye to it, knowing how important it is to the Emperor that that reconciliation should not be made, and seek by all means to turn the ...
Hace 4 días · On 20th May 1536, King Henry VIII got betrothed to the woman who'd become his third wife, Jane Seymour. It was just a day after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed.
Hace 1 día · Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold, was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal.Appointed as the Count of Charolais upon his birth, Charles vied for power and influence even before succeeding his father.
Hace 5 días · Blackheath—which furnishes the name to the hundred to which it belongs—lies chiefly in the parishes of Greenwich and Lewisham, a portion, however, being in the parish, or "liberty," of Kidbrook, while a part of Blackheath Park is in Charlton parish. The name is variously derived from its bleak situation, and from its black appearance.
Hace 6 días · On 18th May 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn, who had prepared herself to die that day, was informed by Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, that she would be executed the following day…. If you prefer reading articles to videos, you can read my article from a few years ago – click here.
Hace 3 días · We are grateful for David Coast’s perceptive review of The Murder of King James I and for his interesting questions about further research. As he suggests, a properly historicized approach to how contemporaries imagined that political life operated is essential to further progress in the field, and, in the past few months, our understanding of this particular issue has come into even sharper ...
