epub |eng | | Author:Ormrod, W. M.

Chapter 14 THE RANSOMING OF RULERS , 1356–1360 If any confirmation was needed of the invincibility of English arms after the time of Crécy and Neville's Cross, then the battle ...

epub |eng | | Author:J. J. Scarisbrick

Primary responsibility for the conduct of Henry's affairs at the Curia lay with two English envoys, William Benet and Edward Carne, able and stout‐hearted men, but of small status – ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Andy King [King, Andy]

Meanwhile, after protracted negotiations, an agreement to end the Anglo-French war had been reached in June 1299. The planned marriage alliance was revived, and on 10 September, attended by great ...

epub | | | Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

CHAPTER XXI But she didn't come by it at once. They got into the car first, which was waiting for them in the scented road at the bottom of the ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I (1956), 383–4. 2 Elizabeth Jenkins, The Princes in the Tower (1978), a sober account, summing up against Richard III; ...

azw3 |eng | 1999-07-10 | Author:S. B. Chrimes [Chrimes, S. B.]

1 On the subject generally, see Chrimes, English constitutional ideas in the fifteenth century 192–203, 249–53. For Fortescue’s assertion, see R.P., V, 239. 2 R. Steele (ed.) A bibliography of ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Marc Morris [Morris, Marc]

8 Enemies Foreign and Domestic The fall of Ely in 1071 marks an important turning point in William’s life, and not just because it proved to be the last English ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Jonathan Sumption [Sumption, Jonathan]

4 Prince of Chivalry (1347–1360) It was customary in the courts of Europe to exchange gifts of jewellery at New Year. In 1333, Philippa of Hainault gave her husband a ...

azw3 |eng | 2001-05-31 | Author:Bertram Wolffe [Wolffe, Bertram]

1 Stevenson, Wars, I, 151–2. 2 Ibid., 118. 3 Ibid., 109. 4 Ibid., 116. 5 Over two dozen examples of this correspondence are recorded in print, most of them by ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:David Bates [Bates, David]

A SHORT VISIT TO NORMANDY Although it is not mentioned in the literary sources, William and Matilda must have crossed to Normandy in the autumn of 1068 and spent Christmas ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Christopher Given-Wilson [Given-Wilson, Christopher]

4 ‘Make it Your Business that We Become Rich’ Edward’s triumph in 1321–2 gave him the opportunity to establish strong and responsible rule in England. Despite the return of the ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-12-28 | Author:James Ross [Ross, James]

3 Collapse and Catastrophe, 1453–1461 In early August 1453, at the royal hunting lodge of Clarendon near Salisbury, Henry VI lost his senses. He would never fully recover them. The ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Christopher Allmand [Allmand, Christopher]

1 M. Harvey, Solutions to the Schism. A study of some English attitudes, 1378 to 1409 (Sankt Ottilien, 1983), p. 196. 2 Cited by E.F. Jacob, Essays in the conciliar ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Michael Prestwich [Prestwich, Michael]

One element of Edward's policy in Gascony which was strikingly successful, was the creation of the bastides. The founding of new towns was a feature of his activities in Wales, ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:W Mark Ormrod [Ormrod, W Mark]

Chapter 14 THE RANSOMING OF RULERS , 1356–1360 If any confirmation was needed of the invincibility of English arms after the time of Crécy and Neville's Cross, then the battle ...