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King Richard I's Great Seal of 1189. Richard was born on 8 September 1157, [12] probably at Beaumont Palace, [13] in Oxford, England, son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was the younger brother of William, Henry the Young King, and Matilda; William died before Richard's birth. [14]
Richard has appeared frequently in fiction, as a result of the 'chivalric revival' of the Romantic era. The Adventures of King Richard Coeur-de-Lion (1791) by James White is a humorous historical novel about Richard's adventures. [2] In 1822, he was the subject of Eleanor Anne Porden's epic poem, Cœur de Lion.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
Richard III of England (1452–1485) Although no monarch has assumed the title King Richard IV, this title can sometimes refer to: Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower King Richard IV of England from Blackadder, a fictional version of the above; Perkin Warbeck (1474–1499), a pretender who claimed to be ...
The motto appears on a scroll beneath the shield on the version of the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom used outside of Scotland.. Dieu et mon droit (French pronunciation: [djø e mɔ̃ dʁwa], Old French: Deu et mon droit), which means ' God and my right ', [1] [2] is the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom. [2]
Richard Armour's book It All Started With Columbus (1953, revised 1961) treats the history of the United States, from 1492 to the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in a manner that owes a great deal to Sellar and Yeatman ("Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world was round, even when Columbus showed them an egg"). Acknowledging ...
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The following is a list of lord chancellors and lord keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum.