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Hace 2 días · John of Gloucester ( ill.) Katherine, Countess of Pembroke ( ill.) Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York.
Hace 5 días · The Ricardian. THE RICARDIAN is the historical journal of the Richard III Society and is published annually. Members of the Society receive the current year’s volume as a benefit of membership. After five years, issues are available to everyone free online below.
Hace 4 días · He is primarily remembered for being suspected of assisting in the downfall of King Richard's uncle Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397) (youngest son of King Edward III) and then for conspiring against King Richard's first cousin and eventual deposer, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV (1399-1413).
Hace 5 días · On John of Gaunt's return from Spain, Richard was able to re-establish his power, having Gloucester murdered in captivity in Calais. Warwick was stripped of his title. Bolingbroke and Mowbray were exiled.
Hace 4 días · St. John's church, which was shared with Methodists from 1972 and renamed St. John Northgate, became a chapel of ease in 1975, when its parish was united with that of St. Mary de Crypt church, and was declared redundant and vested in the Gloucester Diocesan Trust in 1978.
Hace 3 días · 'Gloucester bridge' was a landmark in the perambulation of the Forest of Dean before Henry II's reign. The history of Over bridge, spanning the western branch of the river, is given in another volume, and a bridge across the eastern branch giving access to Gloucester castle is mentioned below.
Hace 2 días · Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir to the throne following the death of his older brother Alphonso.
