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Beaumaris Castle was a strategic location in the war, as it controlled part of the route between the king's bases in Ireland and his operations in England. [24] Thomas Bulkeley, whose family had been involved in the management of the castle for several centuries, held Beaumaris for the king and may have spent around £3,000 improving its defences.
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]
Sir Roland de Velville (1471/74 – 25 June 1535) [1] was a Breton-born English soldier and government official who is theorised as the illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by "a Breton lady whose name is not known", [2] or as a favoured member of the court of Henry VII and later recipient of beneficences, brought home to England with 28-year-old Henry after his exile in Brittany, an ...
A concentric castle is a castle with two or more concentric curtain walls, such that the outer wall is lower than the inner and can be defended from it. [1] The layout was square (at Belvoir and Beaumaris ) where the terrain permitted, or an irregular polygon (at Krak and Margat ) where curtain walls of a spur castle followed the contours of a ...
Windsor Castle, also known as Windsor, is one of the few 18th century vernacular homes and associated farms that remain in agricultural use. Located about 3 miles from near Toano , James City County, Virginia , the original part of the house dates to about 1760, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, side passage plan frame dwelling.
Windsor Castle is almost as famous as its inhabitants, including the late Queen Elizabeth II. This stunning estate is the world's longest-occupied palace in the world, housing 40 British monarchs ...
The King of All Places manor house (circa 1806) can be seen across Cypress Creek from the Windsor Castle property. On April 2, 2013, it was reported in the Virginian-Pilot that the Smithfield Town Council has leased five acres at Windsor Castle Park to Smithfield Winery LLC to establish a vineyard for a small-production winery. [5]
William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was an outlawed Welsh Roman Catholic missionary who worked as an underground schoolmaster in the Creuddyn Peninsula of North Wales.Davies was martyred at Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey during the Elizabethan era, as part of the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Wales that began under Henry VIII and ended only with Catholic Emancipation in 1829.