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The Treaty of Wallingford, also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster, was an agreement reached in England in the summer of 1153. It effectively ended a civil war known as the Anarchy (1135–54), caused by a dispute over the English crown between King Stephen and Empress Matilda .
Treaty of Westminster (1153), also known as the Treaty of Wallingford; Treaty of Westminster (1462), also known as the Treaty of Westminster-Ardtornish; Treaty of Westminster (1511), an alliance during the War of the League of Cambrai; Treaty of Westminster (1527), an alliance during the War of the League of Cognac; Treaty of Westminster (1654 ...
Treaty of Westminster: Treaty of alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France. 1516 Peace of Noyon: Divides Italy between France and Spain. 1516 Treaty of Fribourg: Perpetual Peace (1516) signed between the Old Swiss Confederacy and France. 1517 Treaty of Rouen: Attempts to renew the Auld Alliance. 1518 ...
The original College building (still in use and now known as Old College) in 1843, a year after it opened. The university was founded as Chester Diocesan Training College in 1839 by a distinguished group of local leading figures in the Church of England, including future Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone and the 14th Earl of Derby. [9]
Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon), 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), [2] was an Anglo-Norman baron who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester. [3] He was descended from the Counts of Bessin in Normandy.
November 6 – The Treaty of Wallingford: Henry of Anjou and Stephen ratify the terms of a permanent peace under the direction of Archbishop Theobald of Bec. Ending the civil war (The Anarchy) – between England and Normandy after 18-years. The treaty grants the throne to Stephen for the duration of his life, but makes Henry the heir apparent. [4]
3rd Earl of Chester: Richard d'Avranches (1094–1120) 2nd Earl of Chester: Lucia-Mahaut (d. 1120) Robert Rufus (c. 1090 –1147) 1st Earl of Gloucester: Ranulf de Gernon (1099–1153) 4th Earl of Chester: Maud (Matilda) of Gloucester (d. 1189) Hugh of Cyfeiliog (1147–1181) 5th Earl of Chester: Ranulf de Blondeville (1170–1232) 6th Earl of ...
Chester Court House. Upland Court was the governing body of the New Sweden colony following Dutch West India Company annexation from Swedish colonial rule. In 1655, Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the Dutch colony, allowed the colonists to remain an independent Swedish nation through Upland Court, allowing freedom of religion, organization of their own militia, while maintaining their land and ...