Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... bishop of Norwich , Henry Despenser , to lead an expedition to Flanders in support of the Ghent weavers against their count and his French son - in - law , Philip of Burgundy . Yet before he could arrive , the Flemish pikemen had been ...
... bishop of Norwich , Henry Despenser , to lead an expedition to Flanders in support of the Ghent weavers against their count and his French son - in - law , Philip of Burgundy . Yet before he could arrive , the Flemish pikemen had been ...
Page 343
... bishop of Durham , by the bishop of Hereford . In return for a parliamentary subsidy a wholesale purge of household officials followed . While Suffolk suffered a forfeiture of his property and was sent to the Tower , even such minor ...
... bishop of Durham , by the bishop of Hereford . In return for a parliamentary subsidy a wholesale purge of household officials followed . While Suffolk suffered a forfeiture of his property and was sent to the Tower , even such minor ...
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... bishops and abbots were not only fathers in God but feudal magnates , leaders of the local community and royal advisers . A bishop was a great territorial magnate , enjoying the revenues of numerous manors and knights ' fees , who wore ...
... bishops and abbots were not only fathers in God but feudal magnates , leaders of the local community and royal advisers . A bishop was a great territorial magnate , enjoying the revenues of numerous manors and knights ' fees , who wore ...
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