An arranged marriage to a younger boy was unconsummated when #JohnOfGaunt arranged a hasty annulment so that his 2nd daughter #ElizabethOfLancaster - already pregnant? - could marry the hot-tempered warrior #JohnHolland. Between overseas trips & crises they equipped #DartingtonHall with a #jousting arena & magnificent Great Hall. Within months of his beheading she married another skilled jouster, briefly imprisoned by her brother #HenryIV... 🧵 5/
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Earlier this week I walked in their footsteps again at Dartington Hall.

This view may not have looked that different in 1573 - kitchen and hall as now. But the arches? Remains of windows in buildings in second courtyard that Emery suggests dates from John Holand’s time (c1390s) not part of Sir Arthur Champernowne’s sixteenth century remodelling.

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