The Roll of Battle Abbey, Annotated

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E. Churton, 1848 - 107 Seiten
 

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Seite 42 - Tower, and died an exile at Padua ; and the secret love of queen. Mary, whom he slighted, perhaps for the princess Elizabeth, has shed a romantic colour on the story of this beautiful youth. The relics of his patrimony were conveyed into strange families by the...
Seite 86 - While Henry, with real or assumed romantic feeling, answers : — 'The fewer men the greater share of honour.' " The strong light in which Shakspere brings out Westmoreland in his Henry IV. and Henry V., is a proof that he was even then remembered as a subtle and powerful agent in the intrigues of his age. He died full of years and honours in 1426, and is buried under ' a right stately tomb of alabaster' in the choir of his own collegiate church of Staindrop. The Earl had twenty-one children. From...
Seite 16 - ... Norfolk and elsewhere; of which was the lordship of Bokenham, to be holden by the service of being butler to the kings of England on the day of their coronation. William de Albini, a munificent benefactor to the church, founded the abbey of Wymundham, in Norfolk, and bestowed his lands in Stavell, on the church of St. Etienne, at Caen, in Normandy. His son and heir, William de Albini, was surnamed " William with the Strong Hand...
Seite 75 - William's son, also named William, for his services in France was created Earl of Ewe, in Normandy, by Henry V. ; and married Anne, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of Edward III., and widow of Edmund, 1 Godwin de Prassul.
Seite 83 - This year also died John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England, and Cardinal. He was a wise man, and an eloquent, but in his nature harsh and haughty ; much accepted by the king, but envied by the nobility, and hated of the people.
Seite 27 - Blanc knight, with whom he encountered, smote off his vizor thrice, broke his besagurs and other harness, and returned victoriously to his pavilion with all his own habiliments safe, and as yet, not known to any, from whence he sent the Blanc knight a good courser. But the morrow after, viz., the last day of the justs, he came with his face open, and his helmet as the day before, save that the chaplet was rich with pearls and precious stones : and in his coat of arms, of Guy and Beauchamp quarterly...
Seite 37 - he retired to the solitude of Barden, where he seems to have enlarged the tower out of a common keeper's lodge, and where he found a retreat equally favourable to taste, to instruction, and to devotion. The narrow limits of his residence...
Seite 65 - Of fifteen hondrith archars of Ynglonde Went away but fifti and thre ; Of twenty hondrith spearmen of Skotlonde, But even five and fifti : But all wear slayne Cheviat within : The hade no strengthe to stande on hie ; The chylde may rue that ys unborne, It was the mor pitte. Thear was slayne with the lord Perse Sir John of Agerstone, Sir Roger the hinde Hartly, Sir Wyllyam the bolde Hearone. Sir Jorg the worthe Lovele A knyght of great renowen, Sir Raff the ryche Rugbe With dyntes wear beaten dowene.
Seite 14 - Gaunt et Garre Maleberge et Marre Geneville et Gifard Someray et Howarde Perot et Pykarde Chaundoys et Chaward Delahay et Haunsard Mussegros et Musard Maingun et Mountravers Fovecourt et Feniers Vescy et Verders Brabasoun et Bevers Challouns et Chaleys Merkingfel et Mourreis...
Seite 20 - ... mention of their extinction. Humphrey de Bohun, the last Earl of Hereford, Northampton, and Essex, did not long enjoy his great accumulation of honour, for he died in 1372, in the 32d year of his age, leaving by Joane his wife, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, two daughters, his coheirs, viz., Alianore, married to Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of Edward III., and Mary, married to Henry, Earl of Derby, created in 1397 Duke of Hereford. The latter all- potent noble, son of...

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