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Tower of London
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is an historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is...
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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1198 – March 1, 1244) was the first born son of Llywelyn the Great ("Llywelyn Fawr". His mother Tangwystl probably died in childbirth.
As a boy, Gruffydd was one of the hostages taken by King John of England as a pledge for...
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman.
During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, a violent opponent of the Reformation...
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- Jul 6, 1535
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- Apr 17, 1535
Edward V of England
Edward V (4 November 1470 – probably 1483) was King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III. Along with...
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite d'Anjou; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471 and Queen consort of France from 1445 to...
Johan Anders Jägerhorn
Johan (Jan) Anders Jägerhorn af Spurila was a Finnish nobleman born in 8 April 1757 in Helsinki county. He was the eldest son of lieutenant colonel Fredrik Anders Jägerhorn and Ulrika Sofia Brunow. Colonel Fredrik Adolf Jägerhorn, vice commander of...
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- 1801
John of Scotland
John de Balliol (c. 1249 – c. 25 November 1314) was elected King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
Little of John's early life is known. He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities including Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle...
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- 1299
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- 1296
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk (17 August 1473 – 1483?) was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. He was born in Shrewsbury. He was a younger brother of Elizabeth of...
David II of Scotland
David II (Medieval Gaelic: Daibhidh a Briuis, Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis) (5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371) was King of Scotland from 7 June 1329 until 22 February 1371.
David II was the elder and only surviving son of Robert I of Scotland and...
John II of France
John II (16 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was the King of France from 1350 until his death. He was the second sovereign of the House of Valois and is perhaps best remembered as the king who was vanquished at...
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress Laurens...
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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- 1554
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- 1554
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.
Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine...
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- 1616
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- 1603
Ranulf Flambard
Ranulf Flambard, also known as Ralph Flambard or Ranulph Flambard and sometimes Ranulf Passiflamme, (c. 1060–5 September 1128) was a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham and an influential government minister of King William Rufus of England. He was the...
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- 1100
Henry VI of England
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realms were governed by regents. Contemporaneously, he was described as a peaceful and pious...
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- May 21, 1471
Edward Sexby
Colonel Edward Sexby or Saxby (1616 - 13 January, 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination.
Edward Sexby was born in Suffolk in 1616 but little...
Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English lyrical poet. He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent - though his family was originally from Yorkshire. His father, Henry Wyatt, had been one of Henry VII's Privy...
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- 1536
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- 1536
Vincent Potter
Vincent Potter (c.1614–1661) was an army officer in Parliament's army during the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.
Potter was born in Warwickshire. In 1635 as a member of the Massachusetts Bay Company he...
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- 1662
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- 1660
Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
Saint Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel (28 June 1557 – 19 October 1595) was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He is variously numbered as 20th or 13th Earl of Arundel....
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- Oct 19, 1595
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- Apr 25, 1585
