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The traditional account of the death of Edward II of England says that he died, probably murdered on the order of Roger Mortimer, 1st earl of March, at Berkeley Castle on September 21, 1327, and was buried at Gloucester Abbey on December 20, 1327. Rumors of his survival circulated soon ...
The number of Welsh pilgrims was particularly high. One further legacy of Edward's reign; Roger Mortimer made himself lord of huge territories in Wales. He had himself named earl of March, in recognition of his power base in the Welsh Marches. The territories of March made the earldom the...
(February 17, 1461). Meanwhile, York’s eldest son andheir,Edward, had defeated a Lancastrian force atMortimer’s Cross(February 2) and marched to relieve London, arriving before Margaret on February 26. The young duke of York was proclaimedKing Edward IVatWestminsteron March 4. Then Edward...
Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough was a British governor-general of India (1842–44), who also served four times as president of the Board of Control for India and was first lord of the British Admiralty. He was recalled from India for being out of contro
(later Edward III). Having been alienated by Edward's neglect, she refused to return home while the Despensers ruled. Isabella, with her son and Roger deMortimer, 1st earl of March, gathered a force and in 1326 invaded England. Edward II found no one to support him and fled westward....
Anne Beauchamp, descended from King Edward III, the Despensers and the Mortimers as well as the earls of Warwick, was married to Richard Neville in 1434 at Abergavenny when she was 8 years-old and her husband was only 6. The union was subsidiary to the wedding of their siblings Henry ...
Practically, though not nominally, the government passed into the hands of the queen and her paramour, Roger Mortimer, who was now created Earl of March. They also did evil in the sight of the nation. An attack on Scotland met with the now familiar fate of such attempts. The regency gave...
Mortimer, Beauchamp (Richard Beauchamp was the earl of Warwick at the time of the rebuilding), Despenser (Richard’s wife was Isabel Despenser), Clare, Talbot and Bracy can be spotted along with the royal arms and the fleur-de-lys reflecting Henry VI’s patronage. Tiles are dated to 1453...
Edward Wood, the fourth son of the 2nd Viscount Halifax, was born in Powderham Castle, the home of his maternal grandfather, William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon, on 16th April, 1881. He was the sixth child and fourth son of Charles Lindley Wood (1839–1934), who later became the ...