Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A. [and E.] Strickland, Volume 11864 |
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... chroniclers , John Rous , of Warwick , closed his labours with the blood - stained annals of the last of the Plantagenet kings . It is , however , from the Acts of the Privy Council , the Parliamentary Journals , and the unpublished ...
... chroniclers , John Rous , of Warwick , closed his labours with the blood - stained annals of the last of the Plantagenet kings . It is , however , from the Acts of the Privy Council , the Parliamentary Journals , and the unpublished ...
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... chroniclers of her era . The consort of Henry I. , Matilda of Scotland , familiarly designated by her subjects " Maude , the gode quene , ” not only excelled in personal works of piety and charity , and in refining the morals and ...
... chroniclers of her era . The consort of Henry I. , Matilda of Scotland , familiarly designated by her subjects " Maude , the gode quene , ” not only excelled in personal works of piety and charity , and in refining the morals and ...
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... chroniclers , indeed , afford us reason to suspect , that the subsequent conquest of England proved a less difficult ... chronicler Ingerius declares , " that William was so infuriated by the scorn with which Matilda treated him , that ...
... chroniclers , indeed , afford us reason to suspect , that the subsequent conquest of England proved a less difficult ... chronicler Ingerius declares , " that William was so infuriated by the scorn with which Matilda treated him , that ...
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... chroniclers differ as to the place where William the Conqueror perpetrated this rude personal assault on his fair cousin , and relate the manner of it with some few variations , they all agree as to the fact that he felled her to the ...
... chroniclers differ as to the place where William the Conqueror perpetrated this rude personal assault on his fair cousin , and relate the manner of it with some few variations , they all agree as to the fact that he felled her to the ...
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... chroniclers , indeed , assert that he died at Nicea , in Bithynia , on his return ; but there is a strange uncertainty connected with his fate , and it appears that the Norman nobles long expected his return , -an expectation that was ...
... chroniclers , indeed , assert that he died at Nicea , in Bithynia , on his return ; but there is a strange uncertainty connected with his fate , and it appears that the Norman nobles long expected his return , -an expectation that was ...
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