Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The earldoms of Hereford and Essex, Hertford and Gloucester, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick had been filled by 1300, while that of Pembroke had to wait until 1307. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, whose father William died in 1296, did not succeed until his pimps death in 1307, since the earldom descended through the female line of the ...
English nobleman, probably a squire (later a Lord-Chief Justice) Barrau de Sescas ~1270–1325 Gascony He was a Gascon Knight, vassal of Albret and a supporter of the English, he served as admiral of Bayonne fleet and captain of the coast Richard Stapledon ~1260–1326 Devon A knight, judge, and elder brother of Walter de Stapledon. In 1326 he ...
English medieval music was revived from the 1950s, with choral and musical groups attempting to authentically reproduce the original sounds. [374] Medieval living history events were first held during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the period has inspired a considerable community of historical re-enactors , part of England's growing ...
Pages in category "14th-century English nobility" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 254 total. ... List of peers 1300–1309; List of ...
The House of Plantagenet takes its name from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, husband of Empress Matilda and father of Henry II. The name Plantagenet itself was unknown as a family name per se until Richard of York adopted it as his family name in the 15th century. It has since been retroactively applied to English monarchs from Henry II ...
By the start of the 14th century the structure of most English towns had changed considerably since the Domesday survey. A number of towns were granted market status and had grown around local trades. [11] Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
1300. 1 June – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (died 1338) Laurence Minot, poet (died 1352) 1301. 5 August – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, politician (died 1330) 24 September – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, soldier (died 1372) William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, nobleman (died ...