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| | | | | Gundrada de Warenne, the Gundrada chapel, Trinity Church Southover When I first volunteered at Conisbrough Castle, in the early 1990s, it was believed that Gundrada de Warenne the wife of William de Warenne, first Earl of Warenne, was the daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. Royal connections were very important in the... | |
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| | | | | Bess of Hardwick Bess of Hardwick is perhaps the most famous Tudor woman, outside of the extended Tudor royal family. A friend of Queen Elizabeth I, and confidant of Katherine Grey, she was also gaoler to Mary, Queen of Scots. An accomplished needlewoman, she is probably best known having built Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall... | |
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| | | | | Matilda of England Matilda of England was the eldest daughter and third child of, arguably, Medieval Europe's most glamorous couple. Born in London in June 1156, the daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II was baptised by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate. As her parents ruled... | |
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| | | King John One of the most intriguing relationships of the Magna Carta story is that between Isabella of Gloucester and Isabelle d'Angoulême, the two wives of King John. Isabella of Gloucester is a unique individual in the story of Magna Carta. She is, in many ways, a shadow in the pages of history, and yet... | ||
