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elizabethchadwick.com
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thefreelancehistorywriter.com
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| | | | | Henry Tudor was the least likely candidate to become King of England. A descendant of King Edward III, he was born to a teenage Lancastrian mother during the precarious time in English history that came to be known as the Wars of the Roses. He ended up spending fourteen years in exile in Brittany and... | |
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historicallywoman.wordpress.com
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| | | | | In 1141, Matilda, daughter of Henry I, sat down to a victory banquet in Westminster, certain of her imminent coronation as Queen Matilda of England. Yet it was a coronation that would never come to pass - so how was England's potential first queen regnant foiled? | |
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| | | A short while ago I wrote about Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey and then her first husband, William of Blois (youngest son of King Stephen). So, I think it's about time I finished the story by looking at Isabel's second husband, Hamelin Plantagenet, the other 4th Earl of Surrey. The illegitimate son of Geoffrey,... | ||