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The Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, [1] was an English royal residence that was initially built by prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443. [2] [3] Over the centuries it took several different forms, until turned into a hospital in the 1690s.
The Palace of Placentia, Greenwich. The long lost Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, South East London was once the favourite royal residence of the Tudors. It was also the location where Sir Walter Raleigh placed his coat over the puddle to stop Queen Elizabeth’s feet from getting wet!
Why was Greenwich Palace called the Palace of Placentia? After Humphrey Duke of Gloucester died, Margaret of Anjou, the wife of Henry VI, enlarged and improved Bella Court. She included a pier so that boats could come and go even at low tide, and named her new palace 'Placentia', or 'pleasant place'.
Placentia was Henry VIII’s and Queen Elizabeth’s favourite palace stretching 200m along the foreshore on the great sweep of the Thames, with splendid views of their ships, and backed by the hunting forests of Blackheath, and the old Roman Road to Kent.
The site of the Old Royal Naval College was once the Palace of Placentia – also known as Greenwich Palace (1498–1694). It was the birthplace of the infamous Tudor monarch King Henry VIII and his daughters Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. Find out more about the Tudors at Greenwich.
Henry VII replaced the Palace of Placentia with the Tudor Palace of Greenwich, c. 1500-07. Henry VIII Greenwich was his principal London seat from 1509 until Whitehall Palace was built in the 1530s.
The Palace of Placentia, more commonly known as Greenwich Palace, was one of the most important palaces in Tudor England. It was built on the banks of the River Thames by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443.
