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Hace 4 días · London, Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 9780415266208; 336pp.; Price: £45.00. A new book on Henry VII is a major event. The last full-length study of the king and his reign, by S. B. Chrimes, was written in 1972, in a very different historiographical world. At that time, the explosion of interest in later-medieval history was still in its infancy, and ...
Hace 5 días · She held the manor of Costessey in dower of William Ufford by the grant of Richard II, annual value 182 marks 21d. with reversion to Katherine, Elizabeth and Isabel, daughters of Michael de la Pole, late earl of Suffolk, in the king’s ward, in virtue of letters patent of Richard II [CPR 1381–5, pp.449–50] granting the reversion to Michael, their great-grandfather, in exchange for 180 ...
Hace 4 días · William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk is also said to have bought of Thomas Charles, Esq. and Ralph de How, for 1850 marks, this lordship, 600 acres of land, 40 ... in the 5th of Henry III. In the 29th of Henry III. Thomas Bacon had a grant of a weekly mercate and fair here; and in the 32d of that King, Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk ...
Hace 5 días · James married Anne of Denmark in 1589. The royal couple had 6 children (some sources say 9), but basically James was homosexual. His first favourite was a Scotsman married to Frances Howard, the daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. This man rose to power in 1610, but after being accused of murder in 1616, his influence on the King came to its end.
Hace 3 días · ALDGATE. The Church of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, in the Minories, was founded by Matilda, queen of Henry I., in 1108. It escaped the Great Fire, but becoming dangerous was taken down and rebuilt in 1706. In Strype's time this church claimed mischievous privileges, such as marrying without a licence.
Hace 5 días · Of this earl, Charterhouse—or Howard House, as it was now called—was purchased by that remarkable man, Thomas Sutton, the founder of one of London's greatest and most permanent charities. "Of noble and worthy parentage, this gentleman," says the author of the "Chronicles of the Charterhouse," "descended from one of the most ancient families of Lincolnshire, was born at Knaith, in that ...
Hace 4 días · Sir Robert Drury, Sir John Haydon, &c. petitioned King Henry VIII. for this manor, in the behalf of Margaret de la Pole, widow of Edmund Earl of Suffolk, granted away after the death of John de la Pole and Edmund Earl of Suffolk, by King Henry VII. and King Henry VIII. which was after the 30th of April, in the 5th of Henry VIII. when the said ...
