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DEATH OF MR. MAGNL9IC

... Hon. and Rev. Sir F. J. Staple- ton. The first peer was one of the most powerful Barons of his time ; he fell at the battle of Evesham. At the Old Bailey, on Monday, Win. Garrard (76), a Holloway tradesman, waa brought up for sentence for shooting his ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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Leicester Link with , 6 6 THE Wars of the ) . Roses were really a series of twelve independent battles fought 0 ..

... Leicestershire. Between the first and the second battle a period of four years elapsed, and between the Battle of Tewkesbury and the Battle of Bosworth there was an interval of 14 year. At the second battle_ of St. Albans, fought on February 17, 1461, Sir ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1937
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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WHEN LEICESTER'S EARLS ROSE IN Revolt Agaiiist King

... town. When Sir Simon de Montfort took up arms against King Henry the Third, and as a consequence lost his life at the Battle of Evesham, Leicester was escheated to the Crown and a fine of 500 marks was imposed upon the townspeople. In 1173, Earl Robert ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1937
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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TURBULENT EARLS OF LEICESTER

... in the Duchy Spensers, and I believe they were after Sir Simon was killed at the the first to hold Beaumanor, near Battle of Evesham on August 4, Woodhouse, that estate so long the 1265. property of that well-known local After the death of Sir Simon ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1935
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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THEM LARGE FUN AVAILABLE HOME-BUYI THE TRAGEDY OF WOLSEY

... swords are wooden ones. For the portrayal of the Battle of Bosworth. Shakespeare a description in Richard III. has been resorted to. Our Pageant Richard performs prodigies of valour on the field of battle, and declaims with gusto those memorable lines ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1932
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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6 DECEMBER 1999 THE HINCKLEY TIMES news from the past 1 000 years 13th & 14th centuries The Plague strikes

... (the combined of Britain today He wasn't afraid to stand up for the rights forces of the barons and the king) at the battle of Evesham of a common man and as a result often fell out of favour with His Majesty King Henry He was bom into a French family ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1999
Newspaper: Hinckley Times
County: Leicestershire, England
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... ® Lamport - Country pedieval Mayhem. The Resource Centre, Bowden @® Harborough - Meet Festival. Traditional country Battle of Evesham looms, Lane. MIND AGM. 7.30 pm Tommy Docherty who is fair with field events, steam the year is 1265. Relive this All ...

LEICESTER MERCURY THURSDAY AUGUST 5 LEWIS’S Two Choose Tried At Sessions Man Told Detective: ‘Stuff 1$ All ..

... bail and in custody to Qua A CUT-PRICE LOOK AT SIMON DE MONTFORT WITHIN limited brief night’s BBC programme about the Battle of Evesham in Si which Simon dc Montfort was killed 700 years ago was suitably informative But it could have Ages but left wishing ...

Published: Thursday 05 August 1965
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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SIX THE HINCKLEY TIMES THURSDAY HISTORY Looking back over the years In the past Hinckley was regarded as the second

... 206 the Earldom of Leicester was conferred on Simon de Montfort who retained this position until he was killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1226 By 1296 the manor and barony had passed to Edmund who was Earl of Leicester and also of Lancaster and after merging ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1992
Newspaper: Hinckley Times
County: Leicestershire, England
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LEICESTER MERCERY TUESDAY JULY 6 1976 MANY motorists from Leicester have probably hurried through the Cotswolds ..

... Laurence to magnificent Bell Tower almost all that remains of Evesham Abbey You won’t be in Evesham long before meeting a name familiar to Leicester people It was at the Battle of Evesham 1265 that Simon De Montfort Earl of Leicester and his rebel barons ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1976
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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LITERATURE

... churches, chapels, and hospitals; the charters he grauted, his military movemeuts, the battles of Lewes and Evesham ; and his death in 1265. The battle of Evesham, and the death of the Earl, are thus narrated :—“ In the month of May, 1265, the prince ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1849
Newspaper: Leicester Journal
County: Leicestershire, England
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FOUR HFVlFtt MNCKLFY TIMES THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 1902 HISTORY Nailstone - all it seams The pleasant little ..

... was the ancient inheritance of the Earls Chester ami eventually came into the hands of the Hastings family After the Battle of Evesham Lord Henry Hastings was made Governor of Kenilworth Castle by Simon de Montfort The soil is generally regarded being ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1992
Newspaper: Hinckley Times
County: Leicestershire, England
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