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  2. Francis Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of Scadbury Hall, seat of the Walsingham family, Chislehurst, Kent. Francis Walsingham was born around 1532, probably at Foots Cray, near Chislehurst in Kent, [2] the only son [3] of William Walsingham (died 1534), a successful and well-connected London lawyer who served as a member of the commission appointed to investigate the estates of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530. [4]

  3. Thomas Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    This king, according to Bale and Pitts, was Henry VI, for both of them assert that Walsingham flourished A.D. 1440. The title of historiographer royal has probably no more basis than Bale's similar story of William Rishanger. Bale makes his case worse by adding that Walsingham was the author of a work styled Acta Henrici Sexti. This is now unknown.

  4. Our Lady of Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus venerated by Catholics and High Church Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. Lady Richeldis had a structure built named "The Holy House" in Walsingham which later ...

  5. Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    Our Lady of Walsingham. By a rescript of 6 February 1897, Pope Leo XIII blessed a new statue for the restored ancient sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham. This was sent from Rome and placed in the Holy House Chapel at the newly built Roman Catholic parish church of King's Lynn (the village of Walsingham was within the parish) on 19 August 1897 and on the following day the first post ...

  6. List of English monarchs - Wikipedia

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    Edmund the Magnificent: Rex Britanniæ ("King of Britain") and Rex Anglorum cæterarumque gentium gobernator et rector ("King of the English and of other peoples governor and director") Eadred : Regis qui regimina regnorum Angulsaxna, Norþhymbra, Paganorum, Brettonumque ("Reigning over the governments of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons ...

  7. George I of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    The King was angered when the Prince of Wales, disliking Newcastle, verbally insulted the Duke at the christening, which the Duke misunderstood as a challenge to a duel. The Prince was told to leave the royal residence, St. James's Palace. [42] The Prince's new home, Leicester House, became a meeting place for the King's political opponents. [43]

  8. Edmund Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    Arms of Walsinghham of Scadbury, Kent: Gules bezantée, a cross couped chequy argent and azure [1] Sir Edmund Walsingham (c. 1480 – 10 February 1550) of Scadbury Hall, Chislehurst in Kent, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII.

  9. Baron Walsingham - Wikipedia

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    Baron Walsingham, of Walsingham in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. [ 2 ] This noble title was created in 1780 for Sir William de Grey on his retirement as Lord Chief Justice , who had previously served as Solicitor-General and as Attorney-General .