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Há 4 dias · Samantha Katz Seal describes an incident between Philip, duke of Burgundy, and Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, in ‘Chasing the Consent of Alice Chaucer’ ( SAC 44 [2022] 273–83). Burgundy’s attempted seduction was part politics, part romance, and Alice Chaucer was also being claimed by the earl of Suffolk.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Fortunately for Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk, she did not live to see her grandsons' deaths. She died on 20 May 1475 and is buried in St. Mary's Church, Ewelme (Oxfordshire). Her tomb effigy shows her wearing the Order of the Garter on her wrist.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Death of Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk. She is buried in St Mary’s Church Ewelme. Her tomb (pictured left) shows her wearing the Garter insignia on her left forearm. The tomb is remarkable: Alice’s effigy rests on an alabaster tomb chest, with a cadaver effigy below.
7 de mai. de 2024 · The Book of the Duchess. 1 I have gret wonder, by this lighte, , I cannot understand, every day, 2 How that I live, for day ne nighte. how I survive, because neither day nor night, 3 I may nat slepe wel nigh noght; can I sleep, not even a little; 4 I have so many an idel thought idel empty. I am so distracted.
Há 1 dia · The Duke of Suffolk, then all-powerful in England, was appointed Constable of Wallingford in 1434, the appointment to take effect after the death of Thomas Chaucer, but in 1449 he was accused of having 'furnished the castle with all warlike munition for his own defence' and was banished.
Há 4 dias · ANCIENT VIEW OF CHEAPSIDE. (From La Serre's "Entrée de la Revne Mère du Rov." showing the Procession of Mary de Medicis.) Lydgate, that dull Suffolk monk, who followed Chaucer, though at a great distance, has, in his ballad of "Lackpenny," described Chepe in the reign of Henry VI. The hero of the poem says— "Then to the Chepe I gan me drawn,
21 de mai. de 2024 · A duquesa Kate Middleton foi substituída em um dos eventos mais importantes do calendário da realeza, o Garden's Party. Ele foi realizado nos jardins do Palácio de Buckingham nesta terça-feira (21).
