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The Medieval Merchant's House, Hampshire, England= The Medieval Merchant's House is a restored late-13th-century building in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant, the house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was res...
4 Castles / Schloss in Gersfeld form 13th century to 1900's Include all those who lived and was involved with these buildings Grafen von Ebersberg
Please do not edit in this project. If you have something you think need to be changed, you can contact me. Anette Guldager Boye Ragnar Lodbrog is a mythical Viking we only know from the sagas and there are various spellings of his name: Ragnar or Regnar. The same goes for his nickname: Lodbrog, Lodbrok, Lodbrock. However the oldest is Loðbrókawhich comes closest to the original name.He is most...
List of Visigothic queens From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia The names of only a few of the queens of the Visigoths are known. As the Gothic monarchy was elective, all queens were such only as consorts of their husbands. In his Chronicon John of Biclarum styles Goisuintha "queen" ( regina ) under the years 579 and 589. The wife of Reccared I subscribed to the canons of the Third Council o...
Wikipedia: English - German Ermenrich (409-438) Rechila (438-448) Rechiar (448-456) Aiulf (456-457) Maldras (456-460) Framta (457) Rechimund (460-464) Frumar (460-464) Remismund (464-469)
The arrival of the so-called "Dark Foreigners" in Ireland is first recorded in Irish annals in 849 when the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland state euphemistically that "Amlaib [Olaf] Conung, son of the king of Norway, came to Ireland…with a proclamation of many tributes and taxes from his father, and he departed suddenly"[1122]. Clare Downham discusses the various theories of the meaning of the te...
For naming conventions, see Medieval Kingdoms of Western Europe . The Crusade of 1101 was a minor crusade of three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade. It is also called the Crusade of the Faint-Hearted due to the number of participants who joined this crusade after having turned back from the First Crusade. The Crusade of 1101 arose f...
( MOVE BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE - VERDI GALLERY ) Historical persons (HP) behind the opera characters Performers and collaborators of the first Premieres Performers most liked by Giuseppe Verdi and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi Greatest performers after Verdi's times Persons are sorted by roles and birth years. Please, add profiles only to the main page, "Verdi Gallery". I du...
Foscari Family project Foscari Family project collects profiles of all descendants of the Foscari, and people with the surname Foscari. Also profiles of close friends and supporters, and people closely related to Foscari's, are welcome. The present Family Head of the House of Foscari is Lorenzo de Medici-Tornaquinci-Foscari . (This project was started Jan 23rd 2019) The Foscari The Foscari we...
Slave trade from Bosnia in the Middle Ages The slave trade from Bosnia is a long-term activity that has been of great importance in the economy of Dalmatian cities since ancient times. The status of slaves and their manipulation are regulated by city statutes. A significant change took place with the appearance of the Ottomans in Bosnia. Then the recruitment of slaves was redirected further eas...
Sub-Project of MEDIEVAL IRELAND ==Resources==* Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands: IRELAND * Wikipedia's List of the Kings of Leinster =KINGS of LEINSTER1. MUIREDACH (-885). King of Leinster. The Annals of Ulster record the death in 885 of "Muiredach son of Bran king of Laigin and superior of Cell Dara"[571]. m ---. The name of Muiredach´s wife is not known. Muiredach & his wife had two children:
Sub-Project of MEDIEVAL IRELAND and MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND ==Resources==* MEDLANDS: KINGS OF THE ISLE OF MAN =OUTLINE(See below for detailed annotation)==KINGS OF THE ISLE OF MAN 1. SIHTRIC . m ---. The name of Sihtric’s wife is not known. Sihtric & his wife had one child: >a) GODRED (-1076). King of Man. m ---. The name of Godred’s wife is not known. Godred & his wife had one child: >>i) FINGAL (-1...
The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel (named for St. Catherine whom was to be executed in this fashion) or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by bludgeoning to death. It was used during the Middle Ages and was still in use into the 19th century. * Frederick of Isenberg * Gillette Banne...
The noble families of Split (Spalato) until the end of the 15th century== Key events in the history of late medieval Split relevant to the problems of genealogical research: - The 'closing' of the city's Great Council that reserved the office of the council-ship for those individuals whose grandfathers or fathers had previously been councilmen. This act brought forth a greater detail of ancest...
Shotover House, Oxfordshire, England=Until 1775, when the new turnpike was constructed, the main Oxford-London road traversed Shotover Plain and brought the parish some notoriety as well as several distinguished visitors. Queen Elizabeth, for instance, arrived at Shotover Lodge after her visit to Oxford in 1566, and in 1624 Charles I stayed there and knighted his host Timothy Tyrrell the elder....
Deddington Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Image Right - ("Here Bishop Odo, holding a club, gives strength to the boys" - Bishop Odo of Bayeux from the Bayeux tapestry >===== Image Public Domain, Wiki Commons Deddington Castle was a medieval fortification in the village of Deddington, Oxfordshire. It was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux following the Norman c...
A collection of Articles and Profiles. Knights in the Middle AgesThere were two ways anyone could be a knight: by holding land under a knight's fee, or by being made a knight or inducted into an order of knighthood. There are examples of both cases for women.==Female Orders of Knighthood===The Order of the HatchetThere is a case of a clearly military order of knighthood for women. It is the ord...
Wolvesey Castle (Bishops Palace) Winchester, England= Wolvesey Castle was one of the greatest medieval buildings in England – the palace of the powerful and wealthy bishops of Winchester. One of the most important Norman palaces in England, it was built during a period when Winchester was second only to London as a royal and ecclesiastical centre. The palace remained in use until the 1680s, whe...
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England====History of the Hall.===Little Moreton Hall belonged to the Moreton family, a family that grew immensely rich by taking full advantage of social and religious upheavals of their times. With the decrease in population during the Black Death (1348) much land was placed on the market and was purchased cheaply by the Moretons. They were staunch loyalists and...
Bishop Lloyd's House (or Bishop Lloyd's Palace)= Bishop Lloyd's House (or Palace) is at 41 Watergate Street, and 51/53 Watergate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be "perhaps the best" house in Chester.The house is built on two stone medi...
Penhallam, Cornwall, England= Penhallam (Cornish: Maner Pennalyn/Plas Pennalyn[1]%29 is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage.===Details===The site is situated in the civil parish of Jacobstow in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, one mile west of Week St ...
Starborough Castle, Surrey, England= Starborough Castle , known historically as Sterborough Castle, is a Neo-Gothic garden house of dressed sandstone near the eastern boundary of Surrey, built in 1754 by Sir James Burrow. It occupies the north-eastern portion of an artificial island south of the River Eden, roughly 3 km to the south-west of Edenbridge. It is a Grade II* listed building and sche...
Culham Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Culham Manor is a historic manor house in Culham, near Abingdon in southern Oxfordshire, England.In 2003, the house, set in 11 acres (4.5 ha) of grounds, was for sale for GBP 2.5 million.[1]===History===Circa 1420 a religious guild financed the building of Abingdon Bridge, and the 'old' bridge at Culham. The Manor House, originally a medieval barn held of the...
Phyllis Court, Oxfordshire, England=The present-day Phyllis Court is a stuccoed, Italianate mansion house on Henley's northern edge, built in the early 1840s. Set amidst sloping lawns which sweep attractively down to the Thames, it has been an up-market country club since 1906.But the site itself is much older. Circumstantial evidence suggests that there may have been a small royal manor house ...
Hertford House - The Wallace Collection, London, England= Herford House - The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in 1897 from the private c...