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Showing posts with label English Queens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English Queens. Show all posts
Friday, November 10, 2017

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

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History Extra Illustration by Sarah Young. If asked to name a medieval queen of England, most would probably fasten upon Eleanor of ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts

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History Extra Rys Lumbard Stondyne Period: England, 14th century Description: Sweet Rice and Egg Pudding  Original recipe And for ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The 10 best English queens in history

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History Extra 1) Bertha of Kent (539–c612) Perhaps the most well known of all the pre-Conquest queens, Bertha played a crucial role in...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

12 surprising facts about Queen Elizabeth II

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History Extra Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958. (Donald McKague/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Im...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

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History Extra Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronati...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

History Trivia - Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic

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February 14 1556 Thomas Cranmer, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edwa...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

History Trivia - Death of Elizabeth of York

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February 11 1466 Elizabeth of York Queen of England and mother of Henry VIII was born. Elizabeth had seven children and died in child...
Monday, January 25, 2016

History Trivia - Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

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January 25 1533 Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?

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History Extra The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833) by French Romantic painter Paul Delaroche dominates its display room at the Nati...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Lavish banquet hall where Henry VIII entertained visiting royalty is discovered beneath playground

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Ancient Origins Archaeologists are excavating the ruins of a 480-year-old luxuriously decorated banquet house of King Henry VIII of Engl...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

History Trivia - Elizabethan era begins

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November 17 680 Saint Hild of Whitby died. Hild or Hilda founded Streaneshalch Abbey (now Whitby) and was one of the most renowned abbes...
Friday, November 6, 2015

History Trivia - Treaty of Wallingford signed

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November 6, 1153 - Treaty of Wallingford was signed.  This agreement effectively ended the civil war known as the Anarchy, caused by a di...
Monday, November 2, 2015

History Trivia - Thomas Becket flees Britain

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November 2 1164 Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, left Britain because of a quarrel with King Henry II.  He fled to Flande...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

History Trivia - Treaty of Brétigny ratified at Calais

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October 24 439 Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, fell to Genseric and the Vandals.   1360 The Treaty of Brétign...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

History Trivia - Battle of Cibalae Roman Emperor Licinius defeated

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October 8  314 Roman Emperor Licinius was defeated by Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, losing his European territories. Co-a...
Monday, October 5, 2015

History Trivia - Byzantine Emperor Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople

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October 5  610 Byzantine Emperor Heraclius' fleet took Constantinople. He was responsible for introducing Greek as the Eastern Em...