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3 days ago · The great altar screen has been attributed to the time of Bishop Beaufort, but probably belongs to the latter part of the 15th century, like the similar screen at St. Albans. It is in three stages with a cresting of pierced stonework and in the middle, over the rood which forms the centre of the design, a spirelet of the most elaborate tracery ...
5 days ago · Amid the chaos, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III through Lady Margaret Beaufort and a veteran Lancastrian, returned from exile with an army and defeated and killed Richard at Bosworth Field in 1485.
2 days ago · The connexion of Henry V with Queen's was much slighter than that of Wyclif, but it is attested by John Rouse, who resided at Oxford soon after Henry's death. He says (fn. 18) that Henry studied at Queen's 'under the guardianship of his uncle Henry Beaufort, then Chancellor of Oxford'.
5 days ago · The 30s. pension to Reading abbey continued to be paid until the Dissolution, an attempt by Henry Beaufort, bishop of Lincoln, in 1403 to stop the payment of that and other pensions to Reading having failed.
3 days ago · More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason on what he stated was false evidence, and was executed. At his execution ...
A fine in the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272) was an agreement to pay the king a sum of money for a specified concession. The rolls on which the fines were recorded provide the earliest systematic evidence of what people and institutions across society wanted from the king and he was prepared to give.
4 days ago · No sooner had Gloucester returned home from his luckless expedition to Hainault than he fell out with his uncle, Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, who had been made Chancellor during his absence abroad, and who had taken upon himself to garrison the Tower of London.
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