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Thomas West, 1st Baron West
Thomas West, 1st Baron West (1365 – 19 April 1405) was an English nobleman and member of parliament. Biography He was the only son of Sir Thomas West (1321–3 September 1386) of Hempston Cauntelow in Devon (named after its lords the Cantilupe family whose heiress Eleanor de Cantelowe married Sir Thomas West (1251–1344)), by his wife Alice FitzHerbert (died 1395), a sister and co-heiress of Sir Edmund FitzHerbert, both children of Sir Reynold Fitzherbert of Midsomer Norton, Somerset, members of the venerable Winchester family. Sir Thomas West (d.1386) had fought in the Battle of Crécy and the subsequent siege of Calais under the command of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel. The younger Thomas almost certainly served alongside his father under King Richard II; one of them was in active service in Calais in 1386, the year of his father's death. A knight banneret, he served in Ireland with the Duke of Aumale in 1399, and attended Richard's young Queen Isabella of Valois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Arms
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_lieutenant_name = Mohammed Saddiq , high_sheriff_office =High Sheriff of Somerset , high_sheriff_name = Mrs Mary-Clare Rodwell (2020–21) , area_total_km2 = 4171 , area_total_rank = 7th , ethnicity = 98.5% White , county_council = , unitary_council = , government = , joint_committees = , admin_hq = Taunton , area_council_km2 = 3451 , area_council_rank = 10th , iso_code = GB-SOM , ons_code = 40 , gss_code = , nuts_code = UKK23 , districts_map = , districts_list = County council area: , MPs = * Rebecca Pow (C) * Wera Hobhouse ( LD) * Liam Fox (C) * David Warburton (C) * Marcus Fysh (C) * Ian Liddell-Grainger (C) * James Heappey (C) * Jacob Rees-Mogg (C) * John Penrose (C) , police = Avon and Somerset Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr
Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West (5 or 7 September 1395 – 27 August 1450) was an English nobleman and politician. Life Reginald was the second son of Thomas West, 1st Baron West (d. 19 April 1405) and Joan La Warre (d. 24 April 1404). Joan La Warre was the widow of Ralph de Wilington (d. 16 August 1382) of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire and daughter of Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr (d. 27 August 1370) by his second wife, Eleanor Mowbray. Eleanor Mowbray was the daughter of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray. Reginald had an elder brother, Thomas West, 2nd Baron West. There was also a younger brother, John, and a sister Joan. His sister Joan married first, Richard Delabere, and second, William Catesby. Reginald inherited the title of Baron West when his brother Thomas West, 2nd Baron West, was accidentally killed at sea on 29 or 30 September 1416, and the title Baron De La Warr in 1427 at the death of his uncle, Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron St Amand
Baron St Amand was a title created twice in the Peerage of England: firstly in 1299 for Amauri de St Amand (1269–1310), who died without issue, when it became extinct; and secondly in 1313 for his brother John de St Amand (1283/6–1330). Creation of 1299 *Amauri de St Amand, 1st Baron Amand (1269–1310), summoned to Parliament from 29 December 1299 to 1311 by writs directed to ''Almarico de sancto Amando''. He was the brother and heir of Guy de St Amand (1268–1287), who died without issue, both sons of Amauri de St Amand (d.1285). He was at the Siege of Carlaverock Castle in 1300 when his arms were recorded in verse in the '' Caerlaverock Roll'' as follows: ::''Aumary de Saint Amand,'' ::''who claims a place among the bold,'' ::''Or and fretty sable carried'', ::''On a chief three roundels gold''. He married a certain Mary but died without issue. Creation of 1313 *John de St Amand, 1st Baron Amand (1283/6–1330), brother of 1st Baron of 1299 creation. In about 1313 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas West, 2nd Baron West
Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (1391 or 1392 – c. 30 September 1416) succeeded as Baron West at the age of 14. In less than a year, he married Ida de Saint Amand, younger daughter and coheiress of Amaury de Saint Amand, 3rd Baron Saint Amand (1341–1402). He was knighted on the eve of Henry V of England, Henry V's coronation. He fought at the Battle of Agincourt, and is listed on a pipe-roll with a retinue of 14 knight, lancers and 40 Archery#Medieval archery, archers. Afterwards, he was assigned to the garrison of Calais. Next year, the Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Earl of Warwick, who was Captain of Calais, sent out an expedition on 24 September 1416 to capture a Genoa, Genoese carrack, since the Genoese were allies of France. Thomas West was mortally wounded putting on his armoUr before the battle; he was arming himself at the foot of the mast when one of the stones being hauled up to the catapults on the masthead slipped; but he survived long enough to die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas La Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr
Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr (c. 1352 – 7 May 1427) was an English nobleman, the second son of Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr and Elizabeth de Welle, daughter of Adam, 3rd Baron Welles. Intended for the church, in 1363, De La Warr received a dispensation, permitting him to be ordained at the age of twenty, and was made a canon of Lincoln. He received his first parish on 13 October 1372; he was at various times, rector or prebend of Ashton-under-Lyne, New Lafford, Sleaford, Swineshead, Grindall (in the East Riding of Yorkshire), Manchester, Oxton and Cropwell, Riccall, and Ketton; frequently in plurality. He was responsible for (in 1420) building St. Luke's church in Brislington. He enlarged Manchester Cathedral into a collegiate church in 1421. There is a statue of him on the exterior of the Manchester town hall. He inherited the title and lands when his brother John died on 27 July 1398; but asked, three years later, to be excused from Parliament. (He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John La Warr, 4th Baron De La Warr
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry, 3rd Earl Of Lancaster
Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster ( – 22 September 1345) was a grandson of King Henry III of England (1216–1272) and was one of the principals behind the deposition of King Edward II of England, Edward II (1307–1327), his first cousin. Origins He was the younger son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, a son of King Henry III of England, Henry III by his wife Eleanor of Provence. Henry's mother was Blanche of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre. Henry's elder brother Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, succeeded their father in 1296, but Henry was summoned to Parliament of England, Parliament on 6 February 1298/99 by writ directed to ''Henrico de Lancastre nepoti Regis'' ("Henry of Lancaster, nephew of the king", Edward I of England, Edward I), by which he is held to have become Baron Lancaster. He took part in the Caerlaverock Castle, Siege of Caerlaverock in July 1300. Petition for succession and inheritance After a period of long-standing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of Lancaster
Joan of Lancaster ( – 7 July 1349) sometimes called Joan Plantagenet after her dynasty's name, was the third daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth. Royal family ties Joan of Lancaster was born c. 1312 at Grosmont Castle in Monmouthshire. Her father was the son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre, a granddaughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. Her paternal great-grandparents were Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Joan was thus doubly descended from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Joan's mother was a half-sister of Edward II's favorite, Hugh le Despenser the Younger, through the remarriage of Maud's mother, Isabella de Beauchamp, to Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester. Joan had one brother, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and five sisters, Blanche, Baroness Wake of Liddell, Isabel, Abbess of Amesbury, Maud, Countess of Ulster, Eleanor, Countess of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
John (II) de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (29 November 1310 – 4 October 1361) was the only son of John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, by his first wife, Aline de Brewes, daughter of William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose. He was born in Hovingham, Yorkshire. Life Mowbray's father, the 2nd Baron, sided with Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, at the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March 1322 against Edward II, and was taken prisoner at the battle. He was hanged at York on 23 March 1322, and his estates forfeited. His wife and son John were imprisoned in the Tower of London until Edward II was deposed by his wife, Queen Isabella, and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. The Mowbrays were released in 1327. The 3rd Baron de Mowbray was reportedly in Edward III's good graces, being present in France in the War of the Breton Succession for the sieges of Nantes and Aguillon. He was also on the English side at the Battle of Neville's Cross in the Second War of Scottish Independence. He died of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger La Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr
Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1326–1370),{{Cite book , last=Weis , first=Frederick Lewis , title=Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition , publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. , year=2008 , isbn=978-0-8063-1752-6 , location=Baltimore, MD , pages=27 was an English nobleman. He was born on 30 November 1326, son of John la Warre, Knt. (d. 24 June 1331), and Margaret de Holland (d. Aug. 1349). His maternal grandfather was Sir Robert de Holand, 1st Lord Holand. His paternal grandfather was John la Warre (d. 1331), son of John, Baron de la Warre (d. 9 May 1347), and Joan de Grelle, daughter of Sir Thomas Grelle. Biography Roger was the eldest son of John la Warr, Master of Warr and Margaret de Holand. He fought in the Hundred Year's War in France, where he fought at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and took a share in the capture of King John II of France. Roger was also involved in the siege of Calais in 1346-1347 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhurst, Gloucestershire
Sandhurst is a village just outside Gloucester, England. The parish church and Wallsworth Hall are Grade II* listed buildings. The River Severn is the border between Sandhurst and the neighbouring parish of Maisemore. The Severn Way long distance footpath follows the river on the eastern (Sandhurst) bank. There are only two roads out of Sandhurst, one towards Gloucester, and another towards Tewkesbury. As a result, the village is regularly used as a bypass by drivers hoping to avoid traffic along the A38. History WWII bomb In September 1998, an unexploded World War II German bomb was detonated by bomb disposal experts. The bomb had laid undiscovered for almost 57 years, but when the local parish council announced plans to build a children’s play area on the allotment site, local resident Tom Jones remembered a bomb falling on the site but never exploding. His fears led to a survey and the discovery of a 500 lb bomb embedded vertically into rock more than three met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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