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4 days ago · Title of Cumberland. Ranulph de Meschines , is by some, said to have been made Earl of Cumberland by William the Conqueror; others say Earl of Carlisle. Henry, Lord Clifford , was created Earl of Cumberland in 1525. The title became extinct by the death of Henry, the fifth Earl, in 1643.
4 days ago · Lady Anne Clifford was the daughter and heiress of George, third Earl of Cumberland; she was born in 1590 and married successively Richard, third Earl of Dorset, and Philip, fourth Earl of Pembroke.
5 days ago · On 22 February, 1608, the King commanded Margaret, Dowager Countess of Cumberland, to continue to keep the usual assizes for gaol delivery at her castle, to which she greatly objected and unsuccessfully petitioned against on 30 May following.
2 days ago · Early years, 1239–1263 Childhood and marriage Early fourteenth-century manuscript initial showing Edward and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. The artist has perhaps tried to depict Edward's blepharoptosis (drooping eyelid), a trait he inherited from his father. Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster on the night of 17–18 June 1239, to King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Edward, an Anglo-Saxon name, was not commonly given among the aristocracy of England after the Norman ...
4 days ago · Information on the General Election held on 4 July 2024. A General Election was held on 4 July 2024. We were responsible for administering the counts for three constituencies: Carlisle, Penrith...
5 days ago · Edward I (born June 17, 1239, Westminster, Middlesex, England—died July 7, 1307, Burgh by Sands, near Carlisle, Cumberland) was the son of Henry III and king of England in 1272–1307, during a period of rising national consciousness.
21 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England ...
