Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 79
... foreign mercenaries into the country who turned royal fortresses of which they were custodians into private strongholds . In the Isle of Ely the district that suffered most the terrible Geoffrey de Mandeville - earl of Essex , made life ...
... foreign mercenaries into the country who turned royal fortresses of which they were custodians into private strongholds . In the Isle of Ely the district that suffered most the terrible Geoffrey de Mandeville - earl of Essex , made life ...
Page 205
... foreign favourite and foster brother , Piers Gaveston , a handsome but insolent Gascon knight and , by loading him with honours , precipitate a five years ' struggle with his English baronage . The second was to abandon the campaign ...
... foreign favourite and foster brother , Piers Gaveston , a handsome but insolent Gascon knight and , by loading him with honours , precipitate a five years ' struggle with his English baronage . The second was to abandon the campaign ...
Page 338
... foreign war ... remaining sometimes till morning in drinking and other excesses not to be named ' , rumour attributed to him the same perverted affections which had sullied the name and ruined the reign of his great - grandfather ...
... foreign war ... remaining sometimes till morning in drinking and other excesses not to be named ' , rumour attributed to him the same perverted affections which had sullied the name and ruined the reign of his great - grandfather ...
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The Coming of the English | 15 |
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