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2 days ago · Bowes. Ermine three long-bows gules. BOLDRON (Bollerton, xiv cent.) was held in demesne by the Earl of Richmond in the 13th and early 14th centuries, when it is coupled with Bowes as if parcel of it.
- Barningham
Narrow and somewhat precipitous lanes lead from Barningham...
- Barningham
3 days ago · The manor-house of St. Paul's Walden or the Bury seems to have been sold by the dean and chapter, for at the beginning of the eighteenth century it belonged to Edward Gilbert, and from him it came to his daughter Mary, who brought it by marriage to George Bowes.
4 days ago · Between 1 March 1633/4 and 4 December 1640 the High Court of Chivalry (or Earl Marshal's Court, as it was often termed by contemporaries) was established on a regular basis for the first time in its history.
3 days ago · Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) [a] was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of Scotland and England, until her death in 1714. Anne was born during the reign of her uncle King Charles II.
3 days ago · Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. As the child of a younger son of King George V , the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which ...
3 days ago · Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1][a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
3 days ago · As the heiress of the House of Poitiers, which controlled much of southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The eldest child of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and Aénor de Châtellerault, Eleanor became duchess upon her father's death in 1137.
