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16th Century In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the century 1501–1600 to Wales and its people. Princes of Wales *Arthur (to 2 April 1502) *Henry (later Henry VIII) (1504–1509) Princesses of Wales * Catherine of Aragon (to 2 April 1502) Events 1501 *2 October - Catherine of Aragon arrives at Plymouth, England, in readiness for her marriage to the Prince of Wales. *14 November - Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Catherine of Aragon at St Paul's Cathedral; Catherine thus becomes Princess of Wales. * 21 December - The Prince and Princess of Wales leave London for their seat at Ludlow Castle. Sir Richard Pole is among the retinue that accompanies the couple. 1502 *March - The Prince and Princess of Wales are both afflicted by an unknown illness, "a malign vapour which proceeded from the air". It would prove fatal for the prince. *4 April - News reaches King Henry VII of England of the death of the Prince of Wales; he is grief-stricken. *23 April - Three weeks after hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th Century In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the century 1401–1500 to Wales and its people. Princes of Wales *Henry of Monmouth (later King Henry V) (to 1413) *Owain Glyndŵr (unofficially, 1400–1415) *Edward of Westminster (1454–1471) * Edward of the Sanctuary (later King Edward V) (1471–1483) *Edward of Middleham (1483–1484) * Arthur Tudor (from 1489) Princesses of Wales *Margaret Hanmer (unofficially, 1400–1415) *Anne Neville (December 1470 – 4 May 1471) Events 1401 * 1 April (Good Friday) - Conwy Castle is taken by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr. *June - Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen, first major victory for Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh rebels over the English. *2 November - At the inconclusive Battle of Tuthill, Owain Glyndŵr's forces meet the English near Caernarfon. 1402 *April - Owain Glyndŵr captures his arch-enemy, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn. *22 June - Battle of Bryn Glas (also known as the Battle of Pilleth) on the border with England ends i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 April
Events Pre-1600 *503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico. * 801 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months. *1268 – A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. *1423 – Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416). *1581 – Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world. 1601–1900 *1609 – Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia. *1660 – Declaration of Breda by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penny
John Penny (died 1520) was an English priest, successively Bishop of Bangor, 1504–1508, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1508–1520. He was also Prior to Bradley Priory 1503–1508. His education is uncertain, though he may have been educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later received his LLD from the University of Cambridge.T. Y. Cocks‘Penny, John (d. 1520)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 He served as Abbot of Leicester Abbey from 1496–1509 and in around 1500 built the boundary wall, Abbot Penny's Wall, which is now named after him. In 1520 Penny died at Leicester Abbey, where he had earlier been the abbot, and was buried at St Margaret's Church in Leicester. The church contains his alabaster Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft, often used for carving, and is processed for plaster powder. Archaeologists and the stone processing industry use the word differently from geologists. The former use it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 August
Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple. *1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. *1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty. * 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope. * 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master. *1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) *1594 – King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle. 1601–1900 * 1721 – The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. *1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal. *1757 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18 February
Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. *1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov. *1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. *1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. 1601–1900 *1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. *1735 – The ballad opera called ''Flora, or Hob in the Well'' went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25 June
Events Pre-1600 * 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. * 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. *1258 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre. *1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. 1601–1900 *1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. *1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua. *1741 – Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary. *1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. *1788 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Herbert, 1st Earl Of Pembroke (1423–1469)
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke KG (c. 142327 July 1469), known as "Black William", was a Welsh nobleman, soldier, politician, and courtier. Life He was the son of William ap Thomas, founder of Raglan Castle, and Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, and grandson of Dafydd Gam, an adherent of King Henry V of England. His father had been an ally of Richard of York, and Herbert supported the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. In 1461 Herbert was rewarded by King Edward IV with the title Baron Herbert of Raglan (having assumed an English-style surname in place of the Welsh patronymic), and was invested as a Knight of the Garter. Soon after the decisive Yorkist victory at the Battle of Towton in 1461, Herbert replaced Jasper Tudor as Earl of Pembroke which gave him control of Pembroke Castle – and with it, he gained the wardship of young Henry Tudor. However, he fell out with Lord Warwick "the Kingmaker" in 1469, when Warwick turned against the King. Herbert was denounced by W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy
Blanche Milborne, Lady Herbert of Troy was the Lady Mistress in charge of the upbringing of Queen Elizabeth I, Edward VI and also of Queen Mary when she lived with the younger Tudor children. She was twice married, and widowed; first to James Whitney, then to Sir William Herbert of Troy Parva, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and one of his mistresses. She had five children. Blanche Milborne died 1557 before Queen Elizabeth I's accession. Early life Blanche Milborne was one of the eleven co-heiresses (a son and daughter died young) of Simon Milborne and Jane (Baskerville) of Burghill, Herefordshire. Her eldest sister, Alice married Henry Myles and they were the parents of Blanche Parry. The family had widespread gentry connections; Sir William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1st creation) married Ann Devereux, the niece of Simon Milborne's mother, Elizabeth Devereux. Blanche was also connected to Queen Catherine Parr sharing Agnes Crophull as an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Wales And The Marches
The Court of the Council in the Dominion and Principality of Wales, and the Marches of the same, commonly called the Council of Wales and the Marches () or the Council of the Marches, was a regional administrative body based in Ludlow Castle within the Kingdom of England between the 15th and 17th centuries, similar to the Council of the North. Its area of responsibility varied but generally covered all of modern Wales and the Welsh Marches of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire and Gloucestershire. The City of Bristol was exempted in 1562, and Cheshire in 1569. History 15th century The Council was initially responsible for governing the lands held under the Principality of Wales, the lands directly administered by the English Crown following the Edwardian conquest of Wales in the 13th century.William Searle Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', Little, Brown, and Company, 1912, p. 502 In 1457, King Henry VI created for his son, Prince Edward, a Council to ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth
William Smyth (or Smith) ( – 2 January 1514) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire. Early life and education Smyth was born in the south Lancashire village of Farnworth in the parish of Prescot, which now falls within the town of Widnes in the Borough of Halton. Smyth was the fourth son of Robert Smyth of Peel Hall. He was allegedly brought up during his youth at nearby Knowsley Hall, the home of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. At this time Stanley was married to his second wife Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond. Lady Margaret was the mother of the future Henry VII by her previous marriage to Edmund Tudor, 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, in Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ..., England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin, of Worcester. The present cathedral church was built between 1084 and 1504, and represents every style of English architecture from Norman architecture, Norman to Perpendicular Gothic. It is famous for its Norman crypt and unique chapter house, its unusual Transitional Gothic bays, its fine woodwork, and its "exquisite" central tower, which is of particularly fine proportions.Tim Tatton-Brown and John Crook, ''The English Cathedral'' The cathedral contains the tombs of John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25 April
Events Pre-1600 * 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian ''nakharar'' families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire. * 799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection. * 1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094. 1601–1900 *1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. *1644 – Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
