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unusual facts about First English Civil War, 1642



Abatai

He then led a raiding force into northern China, advancing into Zhili, Shandong and Jiangsu from 1642 to 1643.

Alonso de Castillo Solórzano

Shortly afterwards he joined the household of the Marquis de los Vélez, Viceroy of Valencia, and published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: La Niña de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares (1634), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas (1642).

Augustine Warner, Jr.

He was the only son of Augustine Warner, who immigrated from England in 1628 and patented the plantation called "Austin's Desire" in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1642, building Warner Hall on the property.

Baron Alington

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

Blakiston baronets

The Blakiston baronetcy, of Gibside in the Bishopric of Durham, was created in the Baronetage of England on 30 July 1642 for Sir Ralph Blakiston, son of Sir William Blakiston Kt.

Bonaventure Giffard

He was the second son of Andrew Giffard of Chillington, in the parish of Brewood, Staffordshire, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, was born at Wolverhampton in 1642.

Chester Town Hall

Also in the hall are three sculptures which depict minstrels marching to the aid of Earl Ranulph III who was besieged in Rhuddlan Castle, Sir William Brereton following his arrest in 1642, Edward, the Black Prince granting a charter to the city in 1354 and Henry VII granting county status to Chester in 1506.

Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt

From 1642 until his death, he ruled a part of the County around his residence in Arnstadt.

Clopton Bridge

The bridge was again repaired in 1588 following flooding, and in 1642 after an arch had been destroyed to block the army of Oliver Cromwell.

Daria-i-Noor

In 1965, a Canadian team conducting research on the Iranian Crown Jewels concluded that the Darya-ye Noor may well have been part of a large pink diamond that had been studded in the throne of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and had been described in the journal of the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in 1642, who called it the Great Table diamond ("Diamanta Grande Table").

David Rothe

He joined the Confederates in 1642, and welcomed the papal nuncio, Rinuccini, to Kilkenny, on 14 November 1645.

Dudley Loftus

He served four times as a Member of the Irish House of Commons, representing Naas between 1642 and 1648, the combined counties of Kildare and Wicklow in the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659 at Westminster, Bannow between 1661 and 1666 and Fethard between 1692 and 1693.

Elizabeth Cresswell

-- original spelling --> (1683) was an anonymous translation of Ferrante Pallavicino's La Retorica della puttane (1642).

Felim O'Neill of Kinard

O'Neill's defeat at the battle of Glanmaquin in 1642 is described in Darach Ó Scolaí's novel An Cléireach.

First English Civil War, 1642

Above all, the Eastern Association was from the first, guided and inspired by Colonel Cromwell.

Giovanni Francesco Busenello

His libretto for Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (Francesco Cavalli, 1640) is heavily based on Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, while L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642), set by Monteverdi, is noted among early libretti for the strength and vividness with which the individual characters are sketched.

Goupil

René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church

Gregorio II Boncompagni

Gregorio II Boncompagni (7 July 1642 – 1 January 1707) was an Italian nobleman and the 5th Duke of Sora.

Gustav Horn, Count of Pori

Horn was taken prisoner and held by Catholic army in Burghausen Castle until 1642.

Hannibal Gamon

On 20 April 1642 he was designated, with Gaspar Hickes (1605-1677) of Landrake, as the representative of Cornwall in the Westminster Assembly of divines.

Harbor Hill

White collaborated closely with Clarence Mackay's wife, Katharine Duer Mackay (1880–1930), and with her approval, based the main façade of Harbor Hill upon that of François Mansart's Château de Maisons of 1642, using a mix of other influences to finish the overall design.

Henry de Nogaret de La Valette

Henry (Henri) de Nogaret de La Valette (died 1639) was the eldest son of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554–1642), first Duke of Épernon and Admiral of France, and his wife Marguerite de Foix (1567–1593), comtesse de Candale.

Henry Ó Mealláin

Henry Ó Mealláin, O.F.M. (b. c. 1579; died after 1642) was an Irish Franciscan friar, and sometime Guardian of the Franciscan Friars of Armagh.

Henry Y. Satterlee

He was also a descendant of Jellis Douwese Fonda, who emigrated in 1642 to the Dutch colony of New Netherland (New York).

History of Belize

In 1642, and again in 1648, pirates sacked Salamanca de Bacalar, the seat of Spanish government in southern Yucatán.

Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery

His son Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ards, succeeded him, married in 1623 Lady Jean Alexander, who died in 1670, daughter of the 1st Earl of Stirling, and died on 15 November 1642.

Josep Romaguera

Romaguera was born in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolt (Guerra dels Segadors) against Castile in 1642 and lived until 1723, according to the epitaph of him published in the manuscript Historia Eclesiástica del principado de Cataluña by the Mercedarian historian Pere Serra i Postius.

Kellison

Matthew Kellison (c. 1560–1642), English Roman Catholic theologian and controversialist

King's Men personnel

King's Men personnel were the people who worked with and for the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men (for all practical purposes a single continuous theatrical enterprise) from 1594 to 1642 (and after).

King's Standing Bowl Barrow

It is the reputed site from where King Charles I reviewed his troops on October 18, 1642 during the English Civil War; from which event both the mound and the area take their name.

Kingstanding

The name of the area is derived from the occasion when the Stuart King Charles I supposedly reviewed his troops standing on the Neolithic Bowl Barrow in the area on October 18, 1642 during the English Civil War, after his stay at nearby Aston Hall.

Lacuzon

He gained his first military experience when the French invaded Burgundy in 1636, harrying the French troops from the castles of Montaigu and Saint-Laurent-la-Roche, and devastating the frontier districts of Bresse and Bugey with fire and sword (1640-1642).

Lorentz Jørgensen

His career then became intricately related to that of Christoffer Knudsen Urne (1594–1663) who was appointed lensman (vassal) at Tranekær on Langeland in 1642.

Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh

Sengge Namgyal (r. 1616-1642), known as the 'Lion' King made efforts to restore Ladakh to its old glory by an ambitious and energetic building program including the Leh palace and the rebuilding of several gompas, the most famous of which are Hemis and Hanle.

Obadiah Grew

Among the thirty parliamentary divines who crowded into Coventry for safety in 1642 were Richard Vines, rector of Weddington, Warwickshire, and Grew, his near neighbour.

Oranmore Castle

In March 1642 the town, Oranmore, joined Confederate Ireland in a rebellion, against which the owners of the castle, the Marquess and the fifth Earl Clanricarde, held out.

Ottone in villa

Emperor Claudius became another Roman emperor, Otho (Ottone), who had already appeared as a protagonist in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642) and in Handel's Agrippina (1709).

Paston Letters

Christopher Paston was Sir William's son and heir, and Christopher's grandson, William (d. 1663), was created a baronet in 1642; being succeeded in the title by his son Robert (1631–1683), who was a member of parliament from 1661 to 1673, and was created earl of Yarmouth in 1679.

Ralph Button

On the outbreak of the First English Civil War in 1642, Button, who sympathised with the parliamentarians, moved to London, and on 15 November 1643 was elected Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, in the place of John Greaves.

Second English Civil War

On 3 June 1647 Cornet George Joyce of Thomas Fairfax's horse seized the King for the Army, after which the English Presbyterians and the Scots began to prepare for a fresh civil war, less than two years after the conclusion of the First Civil War this time against "Independency", as embodied in the Army.

Sir John Heydon

Sir John Heydon (died 1653) was an English Royalist military commander and mathematician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance at the outbreak of the First English Civil War.

Sir John Pryce, 1st Baronet

On 12 October 1642, together with his fellow-member Richard Herbert he was disabled from sitting in parliament, on account of their having joined the king at Oxford in the initial stages of the English Civil War.

Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet

Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet (1642–1684), married first Mary, daughter of Dudley North, 4th Baron North (no issue) and married second Sarah, daughter of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet of Melford Hall, Suffolk, who whom he had three children.

Tabasaran

Tabasaran Principality, a state in Dagestan that existed from 1642 until the 19th century

Whore dialogues

The first example was the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino, followed by such works as La Retorica delle Puttane (The Whore's Rhetoric) (1642) by Ferrante Pallavicino; L'Ecole des Filles (The School for Girls) (1655), attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange and also known as The School of Venus; The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (c. 1660) by Nicolas Chorier--known also as A Dialogue between a Married Woman and a Maid in various editions.

William Croone

He was born in London on 15 September 1633, and admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 December 1642.

William Eyre

William Eyre of Neston (fl. 1642–1660), parliamentarian army officer and politician

William Fawkener

William Fawkener (merchant) (1642–1716) was a leading member of the Levant Company, father of Sir Everard Fawkener and the banker.

Zamoyska

Joanna Barbara Zamoyska (1626–1653), Polish noblewoman, married to Aleksander Koniecpolski in 1642


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