#ConstanceOfYork was pregnant with her 3rd child when her husband was beheaded by a Bristol mob after participating in the #EpiphanyRising of 1400; she later bore an illegitimate daughter to the Earl of Kent. After she declared the teenage Edmund Mortimer to be the true king & arranged for the Mortimer boys to be abducted from #WindsorCastle, her cousin #HenryIV confiscated her assets & confined her to #KenilworthCastle - but only temporarily. 🧵 9/
#families #history #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

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/
#medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

December 25, 1066 William is crowned in London. The Norman Duchy is more of a priority to him than England. From #WilliamI to #HenryIV Norman French will be the mother tongue of the English monarch.
After the #BattleofHastings
Not on #BayeuxTapastry
#History #Herstory #Ourstory #OTD

Here visible on the skyline is Woodbury Iron Age Hill Fort #HillFortWednesday It is a special place for me. Not only my old school house but the name of the road where my mother was born. It is the #hillfort from which #OwainGlyndŵr Welsh/ French armies had a face off with the army of the English king #HenryIV before they were starved out and returned home. In the foreground is Worcestershires largest #AncientTree #thicktrunktuedsay. #digitalArt

13 décembre 1553 : naissance d'Henri IV

Cayet, sous-précepteur de Henri IV, rapporte « que Jeanne d’Albret voulant suivre son mari aux guerres de Picardie, le roi son père lui dit qu’il voulait que si elle devenait grosse, elle lui apportât sa grossesse en son ventre, pour enfanter en sa maison...

#histoire #henryIV

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