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B. Margery Baxter; Beatrice, Countess of Arundel; Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso; Margaret Beauchamp, Countess of Shrewsbury; Eleanor Beaufort; Lady Margaret Beaufort
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
20 September – Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born c. 1453) 1502 2 April – Arthur, Prince of Wales (born 1486) 6 May – James Tyrrell, knight, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (born c. 1450) 1503 11 February – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (born 1466) [11]
Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, the position of women varied according to factors including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the country they ...
The Devonshire manuscript passed through many hands during its circulation in the 1520s and 1530s. [25] A few months after the confinement of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard for an impolitic affair in 1536, the MS was passed to Mary Shelton for the first time, where it is likely she added poems and allowed others to add poems to folios 22–50. [26]
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1643: Henrietta Maria of France returns to England from France, landing in Yorkshire and joining Royalist troops in the English Civil War. [118] 1643: Lady Blanche Arundell defends Wardour Castle during the English Civil War. [119] 1643: An unnamed woman uses the name Claus Bernsen to enlist in the Dutch navy. [120]
In France, England, and the Low Countries, black hoods with veils at the back were worn over linen undercaps that allowed the front hair (parted in the middle) to show. These hoods became more complex and structured over time. Unique to England was the gable hood, a wired headdress shaped like the gable of a house. In the 16th century, gable ...