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| | | | | Arms of the House of Bar You would think that a man who was given a king's granddaughter as a wife would relish the glamour and connections such a bride brought. However, this was not always the case and nowhere is it more obvious than in the life and marriage of Joan of Bar. Joan... | |
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| | | | | Beaumaris Castle Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey was one of the castles built by Edward I after his conquest of Wales in the late thirteenth century. Construction work began in early 1295 with many hundreds of men employed on the project and huge quantities of stone, timber and other supplies sent to the site. Over the... | |
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| | | | | Conor Byrne studied for his Bachelor's degree in history at Exeter University, and his Master of Arts in medieval and early modern history at the university of York. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Southampton research the history of executed queens. He has previously written on the life of Katharine Howard.... | |
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| | | When writing medieval non-fiction, you don't get to tell many love stories. Most marriages were arranged between families for mutual gain or assistance. As a consequence, you don't really expect to come across many tales of love - and actual love tokens are rare indeed. But in researching the story of Nicholaa de la Haye,... | ||