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33 articles matching “Edward I”
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Less than a year earlier, Elizabeth Woodville had entered a great church as the pregnant wife of a deposed king seeking sanctuary. On 28 September 1471, the monks of Canterbury Cathedral came to the door to receive her as queen.
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At six years old, Longshanks' daughter was given to God. She kept dice, wine, and a stable of twenty-four horses instead.
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She was born in the Tower of London. Six years later her mother had her father murdered. A year after that, she was given away. She was seven years old.
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Her brother would not go so she made a choice. What Edward I of England built in response is the measure of what it cost.
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He spent twenty-two years trying to erase the blood of the Wars of the Roses, and the moment his heart stopped, the ink turned red again.
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She kept a secret her whole life. She died with it. Fifteen years later, two boys were taken into the Tower on the strength of it, and they were never seen again.
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Eleanor de Clare held the Tower of London for a month. Then they locked her inside it.
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Cecily was the youngest of her father's twenty-two children and would give birth to twelve of her own. Thirty-three years after giving birth to her youngest son, she had outlived her husband, all her sons, and the dynasty they had built.
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She was ten years old when she became a widow for the first time. Her next two husbands would also be claimed by the same war.
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He was born heir to the throne and died at forty-five, still waiting. The day before, he planned his own funeral. A nine-year-old boy took his place.
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Margaret Beaufort’s first husband was born on 27 September 1442. Seven years later, he married her. She was likely only six years old. The pope only gave his blessing afterwards.
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She sent Anne Boleyn a monkey. She sent Jane Seymour quails. She housed Anne of Cleves for a fortnight. She put her own daughter in the path of the king. None of it was kindness. All of it was survival. For seven years it worked. Then it didn't.