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Há 3 dias · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Há 3 dias · Constance of York c. 1374 –1416 Countess of Gloucester: Thomas Despenser 1373–1400 1st Earl of Gloucester: King Richard II 1367–1400 r. 1377–1399 King of England: John Holland c. 1352 –1400 1st Duke of Exeter: Elizabeth of Lancaster 1363–1426 Duchess of Exeter: John Cornwall c. 1364 –1443 1st Baron Fanhope: Philippa of Lancaster ...
Há 4 dias · Social and Cultural Life. For most of the 18th century, until that function was reduced by the rise of the London season and the growth of the neighbouring resort of Cheltenham, Gloucester had some importance as a social centre for the county gentry.
Há 5 dias · Constance Countess of Gloucester obtained access to the imprisoned Earl of March and his brother by the use of false keys, released them and took them with her to Wales in the hope of placing them in the hands of Owen Glendower. The countess and the princes, however, were pursued and captured.
Há 3 dias · Gloucester, which was the shire town of Gloucestershire from the late Anglo-Saxon period, was sometimes styled civitas in the 11th and 12th centuries. Later it was always styled a town or borough until 1541, when on the founding the see of Gloucester, it was made a city by charter.
Há 1 dia · Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
Há 3 dias · Remarkable not only for her financial success as a Black woman in charge of her own business in a country where slavery was still legal, Gloucester was also a well-connected champion of the anti-slavery movement and regularly hosted radical abolitionist John Brown in her home.
