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Showing posts with label Roger Mortimer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger Mortimer. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Death(s) of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

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It is not that surprising that the details of one particular death during a battle is not noticed, but when that person is the highest ranke...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Conquest of Wales

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Hostilities between Wales and anyone living to the east who wanted to control them was ongoing for centuries, but it wasn't until Edward...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

The She-Wolf of France, Part 2

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In 1325, Queen Isabella went to see her brother, King Charles IV of France, to negotiate over Charles' seizing of King Edward II's ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The She-Wolf of France, Part 1

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Isabella of France (c.1295 - 1358) was a queen whose father and three brothers all became kings. Although she was used for a political marri...
Monday, February 6, 2023

The Worst Briton

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Hugh le Despenser the Younger was an able administrator and close friend and advisor of King Edward II , who had made Hugh his chamberlain. ...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Those Despensers!

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One of the complaints about King Edward II of England by his barons was that he took the wrong people into his confidence and acted on thei...
Monday, September 29, 2014

The Fair Maid of Kent

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To Froissart she was "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving"; in her own right she was the ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Getting Titles, Taking Wives

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This is the story of a man who got everything he wanted...and possibly more than he deserved. Ralph de Stafford was born 24 September 1...