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unusual facts about English Crown



Laurence Esmonde, Lord Esmonde

O'Byrne however was undeterred, addressing a flood of petitions to the English Crown, accusing Esmonde and the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Falkland, of conspiracy and perjury.


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Agustín de Montiano y Luyando

He was a brother of Manuel de Montiano, Lieutenant General of the Royal Spanish Army, a defender in 1738 of the attacks by the English Crown to the Florida Peninsula, held by the Spaniards since the first half of the 16th century and later sold to the United States in the 19th century by the Spanish Crown.

Beeston Castle

However, by the 16th century, the castle was considered to be of no further use to the English Crown, and in 1602 it was sold to Sir Hugh Beeston (c. 1547–1626) of Beeston Hall.

Cappagh, County Limerick

The Methodist community originated from Palatine in Germany, and were granted refuge in Ireland by the English Crown in the 18th century, due to oppression in their homeland.

Earl of Richmond

After John V, the English crown ceased to recognize the Breton rulers as Earls of Richmond and the crown frequently assigned the Honour of Richmond to English nobles.

Elizabeth Mortimer

Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys (12 February 1371 – 20 April 1417) was an English noblewoman, who, as the granddaughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and great-granddaughter of King Edward III, was in the line of succession to the English crown.

Joseph-Octave Plessis

Efforts were made to appropriate the property of the Jesuits and of the Seminary of Montreal to the uses of the state, to organize an exclusively Protestant system of public instruction, and to give a power of veto on the nomination of priests and the erection of parishes to the English crown.

Law of the British Virgin Islands

The islands were first settled in modern times by the Dutch, but in 1628 the English crown granted patents for the settlement of what is now the British Virgin Islands to Lord Willoughby.

Llywelyn Bren

The death of Gilbert de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan and the most prominent landowner in the south, at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, left a power vacuum in the region, and the heavy-handed response of the English Crown towards overseeing de Clare's lands there, combined with the death of several hundred men of Glamorgan at Bannockburn, precipitated a revolt in the lordship in late summer of that year.

Madog ap Llywelyn

A final battle between Madog's men and those of the English crown occurred at the battle of Maes Moydog in Powys in 1295.

Plymouth Colony

The Separatists were also still not free from the persecutions of the English Crown; in 1618, after William Brewster published comments highly critical of the King of England and the Anglican Church, English authorities came to Leiden to arrest him.

Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville

The Earldom of Tankerville lost its lands when France was lost to the English crown in 1453.

Richard Pole

Richard de la Pole (died 1525 in Milan), pretender to the English crown

Richard St Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth

He enjoyed the confidence of the English Crown and was on good terms with successive Deputies, Sir Edward Bellingham, Sir James Croft and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex.

Settlement of Great Britain and Ireland

Plantations of Ireland, in 16th and 17th century land was confiscated by the English Crown and Commonwealth and which was then colonised by settlers from England and the Scottish Lowlands.

Thomas Chillenden

He represented both Christ Church Priory and the English crown at the 1409 Council of Pisa, though five years earlier he had refused to accept the role of bishop of Rochester, to which he had been elected.

West Ravendale Priory

Owing to wars with France it was taken into the possession of the English Crown, and was part of the dowry of Joan of Navarre, wife of Henry IV.

William Widdrington

William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington (1678–1743), English peer and supporter of the Stuart claim to the English Crown