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Há 23 horas · Beaufort, Duke of Exeter. — Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, (son of John of Gaunt,) who led the rereward at the battle of Agincourt, between the forfeiture of that title and its restoration to the Holland family, was, in 1416, created Duke of Exeter for life; and among other grants had a pension of 40 l . per annum assigned him ...
Há 4 dias · The city first gave title of Duke to John Holland, so created in 1388; the title having been forfeited, Thomas Beaufort was created Duke of Exeter for life: he died in 1426. The title was restored to the Holland family in 1442; Henry, the last Duke of this family, died in great poverty in 1471.
Há 2 dias · V, 1418–19, but the title was probably instituted on the creation of his master, Thomas Beaufort, as Duke of Exeter in 1416. The office seems to have lapsed on Beaufort's death in December 1426, but it was revived by John Holand, cr. Duke of Exeter 1443, and his son Henry, Duke of Exeter 1446–61.
Há 5 dias · The two-thousand-year-old City Wall highlights Exeter’s Roman roots, as 70% of the original wall survives today. The city’s medieval heritage shines through not only in buildings like Exeter Cathedral, Tuckers Hall, the Guildhall and St Nicholas Priory, but also its Underground Passages and Medieval Exe Bridge Ruins.
Há 4 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 23 horas · The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from the House of Beaufort, a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster, a cadet house of the Plantagenets. The Tudor family rose to power and started the Tudor period in the wake of the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), which left the main House of Lancaster (with ...
Há 5 dias · Art History & Visual Culture at the University of Exeter is an exciting area of study which explores both the history of art and more recent ideas of the visual, extending the analysis of visual forms from the historical right through to modern and contemporary practices.
