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Edgar was thirty-one or thirty-two years old when he died on 8 July 975. [4] He was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, which was the burial place of his father and a monastery particularly associated with Dunstan and Benedictine reform. [221]
When Eadbald was baptised around 8 years later in 624, he was seemingly unable to exert sufficient control over the East Saxon kingdom to restore the position of the Church that was set up under his father's reign, showing the limitations in his authority and the extent to which Sexred and Sæward had broken away from Kentish influence. [49]
He was replaced by his daughter Mary II, and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also James's nephew and had an interest in the throne in his own right. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694, when William became ruler in his own right.
In addition to the two sons he had with Ælfgifu, he had a further son with Emma, who was named Harthacnut. [138] [139] When Cnut's brother, Harald II, King of Denmark, died in 1018, Cnut went to Denmark to secure that realm. Two years later, Cnut brought Norway under his control, and he gave Ælfgifu and their son Svein the job of governing it ...
The English Revolution is a term that has been used to describe two separate events in English history.Prior to the 20th century, it was generally applied to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, when James II was deposed and a constitutional monarchy established under William III and Mary II.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain [a] from 1721 to 1742. He also served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, and is ...
In 604, Augustine founded two more bishoprics in Britain. Two men who had come to Britain with him in 601 were consecrated, Mellitus as Bishop of London and Justus as Bishop of Rochester . [ 18 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Bede relates that Augustine, with the help of the king, "recovered" a church built by Roman Christians in Canterbury.
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...