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Frideswide Strelley
Frideswide Strelley (died 1565), was an English courtier. She served as chamberer to Queen Mary I from 1533 onward. Career Frideswide Strelley was a daughter of John or Leonard Knight, of South Duffield in the parish of Hemingbrough, and his wife Isabella Langholme. She was an aunt of William Knight and distantly related to the family of Guy Fawkes. The Knight family had inherited lands at nearby Spaldington, and her father is sometimes named as "John Knight of Spaldington". She joined the service of Lady Mary, later Mary I, first as a chamberer, from as early as 1533, and was later ranked as a gentlewoman. She was said to have previously been a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon. In the accounts of Lady Mary, she appears as "maistres Knight" from 1537 and was given sums of money, once for buying fish. She had a servant or "man". In 1548, she married Robert Strelley. As "Mrs Sturley", Frideswide Strelley rode in procession at the coronation of Mary I of England on 30 Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary I Of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament but, during her five-year reign, more than 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake in what became known as the Marian persecutions, leading later commentators to label her "Bloody Mary". Mary was the only surviving child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She was declared illegitimate and barred from the line of succession following the annulment of her parents' marriage in 1533, but was restored via the Third Succession Act 1543. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privy Council Of England
The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council (), was a body of advisers to the List of English monarchs, sovereign of the Kingdom of England. Its members were often senior members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons of England, House of Commons, together with leading churchmen, judges, diplomats and military leaders. The Privy Council of England was a powerful institution, advising the sovereign on the exercise of the royal prerogative and on the granting of royal charters. It issued executive orders known as Order in Council, Orders in Council and also had judicial functions. In 1708, the Privy Council of England was abolished and subsumed into the Privy Council of Great Britain along with the Privy Council of Scotland. Name According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford dictionary the definition of the word "privy" in ''Privy Council'' is an obsolete one meaning "Of or pertaining exclusively to a particular p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Uncertain
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Of Mary I Of England
A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and administer justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. Courts generally consist of judges or other judicial officers, and are usually established and dissolved through legislation enacted by a legislature. Courts may also be established by constitution or an equivalent constituting instrument. The practical authority given to the court is known as its jurisdiction, which describes the court's power to decide certain kinds of questions, or petitions put to it. There are various kinds of courts, including trial courts, appellate courts, administrative courts, international courts, and tribunals. Description A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1565 Deaths
Year 1565 ( MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 3 – In the Tsardom of Russia, Ivan the Terrible originates the oprichnina (repression of the boyars (aristocrats)). * January 23 – Battle of Talikota: The Vijayanagara Empire, the last Hindu kingdom in South India, is greatly weakened by the Deccan sultanates. * February 13 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi lands with his troops on the shores of Cebu Island in the Philippines. * March 1 – The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is founded as ''São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro'' by Estácio de Sá. * March 16 – Spanish Conquistador López de Legazpi makes a blood compact (''sandugan'') with Datu Sikatuna in the island of Bohol, Philippines. April–June * April 27 – Cebu City is established as San Miguel by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. * May 2 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jean Stone
Mary Jean Stone (born at Brighton, Sussex, in 1853; died at Battle, Sussex, 3 May 1908) was an English historical writer. Life She was educated in Paris and at Aschaffenburg in Germany, where she acquired a knowledge of French, German, and Italian. In Germany she became a Roman Catholic convert, and was received into the Catholic Church by Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, then Bishop of Mainz. On her return to England, she was encouraged as a historian by Jesuit contacts. Works *''Faithful unto Death'', a study of the martyrs of the Order of St. Francis during the Reformation period (1892); *''Eleanor Leslie'', a memoir of a Scottish convert (1898); *''Mary the First, Queen of England'' (1901); *''Reformation and Renaissance'' (1904), studies; *''Studies from Court and Cloister'', reprinted essays, including "Margaret Tudor", "Sir Henry Bedingfeld", and a "Missing Page from the Idylls of the King" (1905); *''The Church in English History'', a textbook for teachers of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And Funeral Of Mary I Of England
Mary I of England died on 17 November 1558 at St James's Palace in London. She was 42 years old. Mary was buried in Westminster Abbey on 14 December. Privy chamber According to Jane Dormer, Mary came to London from Hampton Court at the end of August. She asked Dormer if she had recovered from her illness, a form of influenza called the "quartan ague", Dormer said she was well. Mary replied, "So am not I". On 28 October, Mary added a codicil to her will, witnessed by her physician Thomas Wendy and others, which indicated that her half-sister Elizabeth I, Elizabeth would be her successor. The sickbed was attended by an old servant, the chamberer George Brediman, Edith Brediman. The nature of Mary's final illness is uncertain. A decade after her death, Richard Grafton wrote that the Siege of Calais (1558), loss of Calais to the French was the source of a depression, "an inward sorrow of mind", which led to her succumbing to a prevalent fever. According to the writer John Foxe, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulverscroft Priory
Ulverscroft Priory is a former hermitage and priory in Ulverscroft, Leicestershire. History The priory was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1139, as a hermitage for eremites of the Order of St Augustine. Before 1174, following a papal order, it became an Augustinian priory.Ulverscroft Priory ''English Heritage: PastScape'' The priory gained the of the church at Stanford on Soar in Nottinghamshire before 1174, however the priory lost it by 1280, following a dispute. In 1323 William de Ferrers donated "70 acres of waste land at Groby" and the advowson of Syston Church, both in Leicestershire. Thomas de Ferrer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charley Priory
Charley Priory was a small former priory in Leicestershire, England. History The exact date Charley Priory was established is unknown, but is at some point before 1190. In 1190, Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester donated the priory to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Evroul in Normandy. The gift was confirmed at the beginning of the 13th-century, with the abbey under the control of Ware Priory, a subordinate of Saint-Evroul. In 1220, while under the patronage of the Earl of Winchester, the priory is recorded as a hermitage, and as independent (no longer under the control of another abbey or priory), and as in possession of the advowson of Ratcliffe on the Wreake church. At the time 3 monks lived at the priory but it is unclear if they followed the Augustinian or Benedictine order; as a hermitage they may not have followed any definite rule. By the late 13th-century the priory was considered Augustinian, and in 1291 the abbey was valued at £9. 2s. 9½d.'Houses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Of Mary I Of England And Philip Of Spain
Mary I of England (1516–1558) and Philip of Spain (later Philip II; 1527–1598) married at Winchester Cathedral on Wednesday 25 July 1554. Making a marriage There was some opposition in England to the new Queen marrying a foreign prince. A Spanish chronicle refers to the xenophobic beliefs of the English people, and Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (who had obtained the oil used to anoint Mary at her coronation) wrote that the English would only accept the marriage with the greatest difficulty. Attitudes however were much more nuanced, especially in London and other centres of international trade hosting immigrant communities. Opponents of the marriage plan among the privy counsellors and royal household included Robert Rochester, Francis Englefield, and Edward Waldegrave. In November, Mary of Hungary, Governor of the Netherlands, agreed to send a portrait by Titian of Philip dressed in wolfskin to Mary. She had not yet seen her intended husband. The pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Of The Maids (royal Courts)
Mother of the Maids was a position at the English royal court. The Mother of the Maids was responsible for the well-being and decorum of maids of honour, young gentlewomen in the household of a queen regnant or queen consort. At the Tudor court, the Mother of Maids or Mother of Maidens was supposed to act to high and impeachable moral standards, so portraying the Queens household as a place of virtue. Households of the Tudor queens Anne of Cleves brought a household with her to England, and in 1540 "Mother Lowe" was the mother of the "Dowche Maydes". Anne Poyntz was given a "billiment" head dress to wear at the coronation of Mary I of England, and took part in the Royal Entry. Anne Poyntz died in 1554, and Dorothy Broughton was appointed in her place as Mother of the Maidens. Dorothy Broughton returned to court from Woodstock Palace where she was serving in the household of Lady Elizabeth, then in the care of Henry Bedingfeld. Margaret Morton was sent to Woodstock to fill Broughto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Clarencieux
Susan White, known as Susan Clarencius (before 1510 – in or after 1564), was a favourite lady in waiting and longtime friend of Queen Mary I of England. Family Susan's family, the Whites of Hutton, were a cadet branch of the White family of South Warnborough, Hampshire.White, George (c.1530-84), of Hutton, Essex, History of Parliament Retrieved 1 May 2013. According to David Loades, Susan was "probably the youngest" of the four children of Richard White of and Maud Tyrrell,. the daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
