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Edward I

2010-05-01T13:03:23Z

Christina: Created page with 'Edward was born on the 17th of June 1239 at Westminster as the oldest son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He was named after the saint Edward the Confessor. In 1254 at the …'

Edward was born on the 17th of June 1239 at Westminster as the oldest son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He was named after the saint Edward the Confessor. In 1254 at the age of 15 Edward married the 9 year old Eleanor of Castile in Spain. As duke of Gascony Edward spent a year there. He fought in the civil wars of his father. Edward accompanied King Louis IX of France on a crusade starting off in August 1270 and arriving in Acre in May 1271. King Louis however died in Tunis.
After Eleanor’s death in 1290, Edward married the 17 year old Margaret of France. All in all Edward had 15 children plus 3 or 4 anonymous ones.
After the death of his father Henry III on the 16th of November 1272 Edward succeeded to the throne. He died on the 7th of July in 1307. His successor was his son Edward II.

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http://www.castlewales.com/edward.html, 01.05.2010, 14:45.

http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_5.htm, 01.05.2010, 14:52.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/ThePlantagenets/EdwardILongshanks.aspx, 01.05.2010, 14:01.

Morris, Marc. A Great and Terrible King. Edward I and the Forging of Britain. London: Hutchinson 2008, p. 436.

Alfred the Great

2010-05-01T10:19:37Z

Christina:

According to Asser, who is supposed to have been bishop either of St. David's or of Sherborne or of Exeter in the time of the King Alfred, the king of the Anglo-Saxons was born in the village of Wanating in Berkshire in the year 849. He was the son of King Ethelwulf.
Alfred was king of Wessex from 871 to 899. He defended the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the south of England against the Vikings and cared for other benefits like the formulation of a code of laws or the promotion of religious and scholarly activity. The author Edward Vallance even claims the king to have been “The First British Radical” because he stresses radical movements, like for expample Alfred's introduction of a code of laws which people were able to understand and which lead to just trials, as real changes affecting the government of the nation (Vallance 2009, 1, 4, 17).

'''Sources:'''

http://omacl.org/KingAlfred/introduction.html, 30.04.2010, 14:01.

http://omacl.org/KingAlfred/part1.html, 30.04.2010, 14:01.

http://www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/king.alfred.html, 30.04.2010, 14:015.

Vallance, Edward. A Radical History of Britain. Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries – The Men and Women who Fought for Our Freedoms. London: Little Brown 2009, p.1-21.

Alfred the Great

2010-04-30T15:09:04Z

Christina: Created page with 'According to Asser, who is supposed to have been bishop either of St. David's or of Sherborne or of Exeter in the time of the King Alfred, the king of the Anglo-Saxons was born i…'

According to Asser, who is supposed to have been bishop either of St. David's or of Sherborne or of Exeter in the time of the King Alfred, the king of the Anglo-Saxons was born in the village of Wanating in Berkshire in the year 849. He was the son of King Ethelwulf.
Alfred was king of Wessex from 871 to 899. He defended the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the south of England against the Vikings and cared for other benefits like the formulation of a code of laws or the promotion of religious and scholarly activity. The author Edward Vallance even claims the king to have been “The First British Radical” (Vallance 2009, 1).

'''Sources:'''

http://omacl.org/KingAlfred/introduction.html, 30.04.2010, 14:01.

http://omacl.org/KingAlfred/part1.html, 30.04.2010, 14:01.

http://www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/king.alfred.html, 30.04.2010, 14:015.

Vallance, Edward. A Radical History of Britain. Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries – The Men and Women who Fought for Our Freedoms. London: Little Brown 2009, p.1-21.

Jane I

2010-04-30T15:04:19Z

Christina: Created page with 'Jane I, daughter of Lord Henry and Lady Frances Grey, duke and duchess of Suffolk, was crowned as queen of England in the Tower of London on the 10th of July 1553 as the successo…'

Jane I, daughter of Lord Henry and Lady Frances Grey, duke and duchess of Suffolk,
was crowned as queen of England in the Tower of London on the 10th of July 1553 as the successor of King Edward VI who had died four days earlier.
She was legitimate heir of the crown because of her maternal grandmother Princess Mary Tudor who had married her brother Henry VIII’s best friend Charles Brandon after the death of her first husband King Louis XII of France. Brandon became duke of Suffolk in 1514 and had a son with Mary whose name was Henry. That son Henry died as teenager. Frances was their next oldest child.
The Third Act of Succession from the year 1544 brought Henry VIII’s daughters Mary and Elizabeth back into the line of heirs of the crown if Henry himself and his son Edward should die without male descendants.
As Edward was a devout Protestant and did not want Roman Catholicism to be restored in England, he removed Mary from the succession. She was declared illegitimate by parliament in 1532. However if he removed Mary, he also had to do so with Elizabeth. Despite the Third Act of Succession he declared Frances’ daughter Jane as his successor on the 21st of June 1553.
Jane was married to Guildford Dudley who she denied to crown as king. Meanwhile Mary was proclaimed queen in Norfolk. She tried to force Jane to convert to Catholicism. On the 14th of November 1553 Jane was convicted because of high treason together with her husband however the sentence to death was not carried out. Under the circumstances of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat Jane was decapitated on the 12th of February 1554 in the Tower of London after Mary accused her of treason.

'''Sources:'''

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/relative/janegrey.html#Biography, 30.04.2010, 12:35.

Given-Wilson, Chris / Curteis, Alice. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul plc,1984, p. 74.

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat. ed. by John Gough Nichols 1850, first reprinting: USA 1986, p. 1-6.