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Category: Royal People

Posted on:January 17, 2017February 15, 2022Royal People Women's History

Royal People: Boudica, Queen of the Iceni

For this latest post in my Royal People series I go back a lot further than most of my posts have focused on so far, to Roman Britain. Boudica is one of the most famous women in English history, and as I grew up in one of the towns she burnt to the ground, I […]

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Posted on:December 9, 2016February 15, 2022Royal People

Royal People: Emperor Charlemagne, King of the Franks

It has been said that if you are of vaguely European descent, you are almost certainly related to Charlemagne. In fact, due to maths calculations, you are probably related to pretty much anyone alive in ninth century Europe who left descendants. As this week’s blog post was delayed because I took a trip to Germany, […]

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Posted on:October 16, 2016February 15, 2022Royal People Women's History

Royal People: Isabella of France, “She-Wolf of England”

As my last blog post on medieval English royals was about a woman from my masters dissertation, I thought I would continue the trend and go back to my undergraduate dissertation for the next in the series. For this we go back to the previous century, the early fourteenth century, and look at the wife […]

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Posted on:October 2, 2016February 15, 2022Royal People Witchcraft Women's History

Royal People: Eleanor Cobham, Royal Witch?

I thought it only fitting to write my first post about one of the women my recent Masters dissertation focused upon. Eleanor Cobham was a woman who lived in England during the fifteenth century. In 1428, she married Humphrey, the Duke of Gloucester, who was one of Henry V’s brothers, and uncle to the current […]

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