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Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a l...
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Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that...
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There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, ...
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Charlemagne's first son was named Pepin. Shortly after his birth he developed a spinal deformity that has caused hist...
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In William Shakespeare's Richard III, someone refers to Richard as “that foule hunch-backt toade.” It's the first rec...
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Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was one of the chief conspirators of the Southampton Plot to eliminate ...
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I mentioned yesterday the links between the three men who hatched the Southampton Plot to assassinate Henry V and put...
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People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebelli...
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Although he was a thorn in the side of King Henry IV, because he had a greater claim to the throne and was used as a ...
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Young Edmund Mortimer, who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, ...
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Although Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old when Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from Richard II, he was a...
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When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to retur...
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After the Trial by Combat affair in 1398 between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray (which was supposed to be to th...
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Henry Bolingbroke and his cousin, Richard, were childhood friends, but when they were older Henry became one of the L...
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I mentioned yesterday that Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, married Mary de Bohun, through whom he inherited ...
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I wrote not too long ago about Bolingbroke and his adversarial relationship with hui cousin, Richard II. It might be ...
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The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliamen...
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After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered t...
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A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the exc...
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We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records,...