Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volúmenes 1-3Lea and Blanchard, 1852 |
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volúmenes 1-3 Agnes Strickland Vista de fragmentos - 1847 |
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abbey Adelicia Anne Aquitaine archbishop attended barons beauty beloved Berengaria bishop Bretagne bride brother castle cause Chronicle church consort coronation count countess court crown daughter death dower duchess duke of Bretagne duke of Burgundy duke of Gloucester earl Edward IV eldest Elizabeth empress Matilda English father favour Froissart hand heir Henry IV Henry VI Henry's honour husband Ibid Joanna Katherine king and queen king Edward king Henry king of England king of France king Richard king's knights lady Lancaster land London lord Louis Malmsbury Margaret of Anjou Marguerite marriage married Matilda of Scotland Matthew Paris monarch Mortimer mother noble Norman Normandy Ordericus Vitalis palace Paris parliament person Philippa prince of Wales princess Provençal queen Eleanora queen Margaret queen of England received reign Robert royal Saxon says Scotland sent sister sovereign Stephen throne took Tower uncle Warwick Westminster widow wife William Winchester Windsor young queen
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Página 172 - Towcester's field, Gathering, in its guilty flood, The carnage and the ill-spilt blood, That forty thousand lives could yield. Cressy was to this but sport, Poictiers but a pageant vain, And the victory of Spain Seem'da strife for pastime meant And the work of Agincourt Only like a tournament ; Half the blood which there was spent Had sufficed again to gain Anjou and ill-yielded Maine, Normandy and Aquitaine ; And Our Lady's ancient towers, Maugre all the Valois...
Página 83 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Página 166 - My father was King; his father also was King; I myself have worn the crown forty years from my cradle ; you have all sworn fealty to me as your sovereign, and your fathers have done the like to mine. How then can my right be disputed...
Página 65 - Richard by the grace of God king of England and of France, and lord of Ireland...
Página 187 - When Eustace had done speaking, they all rose up and almost worshipped him; many cast themselves at his feet with tears and groans. Another citizen, very rich and respected, rose up and said he would be the second to his companion, Eustace; his name was John Daire.
Página vii - God, you shall be our lady and queen," she replied instantly, and without any one advising her, " Sir, if it please God, and my lord and father, that I be queen of England, I shall be well pleased thereat ; for I have been told I shall then be a great lady.
Página 177 - ... barbers, courtesans and parasites, making so much noise, and in a word such an intolerable tumultuous jumble of horse and foot, that you imagine the great abyss hath opened, and that hell hath poured forth all its inhabitants.
Página 42 - He there supped with his barons ; and they feasted among the dead ; but, when he contemplated the fearful slaughter, a natural feeling of pity, perhaps allied to repentance, arose in his...
Página 93 - The loss of infants may be repaired by the same God that gave them ; but when a man has lost a good father, it is not in the course of nature for God to send him another.
Página 75 - was the site of my father's house, which this dead duke took violently from him, and here, upon part of mine inheritance, founded this church. This ground I therefore challenge, and...