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the curfew law associated with the
curfew bell
started by
Alfred the Great
was abolished by
Henry I of England
?
the
church
of
Monkton Deverill
was
dedicated
to
King and Saint Alfred the Great
?
Alfred the Great
's taking of
London
in
886
was followed by
his treaty
with
Guthrum
, the
Viking
ruler of
East Anglia
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Edward the Elder
Ælfwynn
became the second woman to rule the
Mercians
when her mother
Æthelflæd
died in
918
, but was deposed by King
Edward the Elder
and sent into exile in December of that year?
Cnut the Great
King
Cnut the Great
ordered the murder of
Eadric Streona
and
Northman
, the eldest son of
Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce
, in 1017?
Athelstan of England
the drowning of
Edwin, son of Edward the Elder
, half-brother of King
Athelstan of England
, in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by
medieval English historians
?
Edward the Confessor
King
Edward the Confessor
(d. 1066) granted
Regenbald
, a royal clerk, the status of a bishop without the actual office?
after King
Edward the Confessor
ordered the death of
Rhys ap Rhydderch
, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?
Oliver Cromwell
Skinnand
is a
deserted medieval village
in
Lincolnshire
, and that its
Norman
church was probably burned down by
Oliver Cromwell
in the
English Civil War
?
before
John Parker
became
Archbishop of Tuam
and of
Dublin
, he had been imprisoned by
Oliver Cromwell
's forces as a suspected
Royalist
spy
?
in 1648,
Oliver Cromwell
sent letters to
Haverfordwest Castle
in west
Wales
and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
portrait painter
John Michael Wright
painted both
Charles II
and the daughter of
Oliver Cromwell
?
the statue of the
Virgin and Child
in the porch of the
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
in
Oxford
was cited as evidence in
Archbishop Laud's
execution trial, and has bullet holes made by
Oliver Cromwell
's troops?
Henry VIII of England
58 ships
(one pictured)
of the 16th-century navy of
Henry VIII of England
were illustrated in the
Anthony Roll
?
Lorenzo Campeggio
, the
cardinal protector of England
during the
English Reformation
, determined that
Henry VIII
's marriage could not be annulled?
Sir Edward Rogers
(pictured)
was an Esquire of the Body to
Henry VIII of England
who rose to become
Comptroller of the Household
to Henry's daughter
Elizabeth I
?
Elizabeth Barton
was
executed
for
high treason
in
1534
for
prophesying
the death of
King Henry VIII
?
Sir John Luttrell
, an
English
soldier and diplomat under
Henry VIII
and
Edward VI
, was the subject of an allegorical
portrait
(pictured)
by
Hans Eworth
celebrating peace with
France
and
Scotland
?
Lucas Horenbout
was "King's Painter" to
King Henry VIII
and the founder of the English tradition of the
portrait miniature
, painting Henry and several of his
wives
?
Newark Park
, a
Tudor
hunting lodge in
Gloucestershire
, was built in 1544 for a
Groom of the Bedchamber
to
King Henry VIII
?
Padfield
in
Derbyshire
belonged to
William the Conqueror
, but was given away by his heirs, firstly
Henry I
, then
Henry II
and then
Henry VIII
?
Thomas Stanley
was an officer of the
Royal Mint
at the
Tower of London
under four monarchs—
Henry VIII
,
Edward VI
,
Mary I
and
Elizabeth I
?
William Scrots
, King's Painter to
Henry VIII
and his son
Edward VI
, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor,
Hans Holbein
?
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