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unusual facts about Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster



Battle of Agridi

Following the battle, John of Beirut, with funds from Henry of Cyprus, hired thirteen Genoese galleys to aid in the siege of Kyrenia.

Bertrán de Risnel

There he is placed in the second tier of nobility, immediately beneath Alfonso VI, Henry of Portugal, and Raymond of Galicia, and beside Fruela Díaz.

Caroline Lucy Scott

Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott (1784–1857), novelist, second daughter of Archibald, first baron Douglas (1748–1827), by Frances, sister of Henry, third duke of Buccleuch, was born on 16 February 1784.

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488–1563), daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

Condemned To Be Shot

The cast consisted of Reginald Brooke, Zoe Davies, Olga Edwardes, Wilfred Fletcher, Neil Porter, Hilary Pritchard, Henry Belling and Ben Soutten.

County of Brunswick

The County developed out of the possessions of the Brunonen dynasty centered on the town of Brunswick and was enlarged by the inheritances of Henry the Fat of Northeim around Northeim and Göttingen and a part of the Billung inheritance around Lüneburg, which fell to the House of Welf in 1106.

Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd

Dafydd was able to keep the eastern part, and in 1177 King Henry gave him the manors of Ellesmere and Hales in England.

Dutch Mission

George Edmundson wrote, in History of Holland, that Henry, "was compelled" in 1528 to formally surrender "the temporalities of the see" to Charles V.

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, KG (also called Despenser) (c. 24 March 1335 or 1336 – 11 November 1375) was the son of another Edward le Despenser and Anne, the sister of Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby.

Eleanor Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster (1318–1372), fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth

Fairchild 24

Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey player Bill Barilko and his dentist Henry Hudson disappeared on August 26, 1951, aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane, flying from Seal River, Quebec.

Gisborne

Gisborne, Victoria, Australia, a town named after Henry Fyshe Gisborne

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Henry Brockholst Livingston

Henry Brockholst Livingston (November 25, 1757 – March 18, 1823) was an American Revolutionary War officer, a justice of the New York Court of Appeals and eventually an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Henry Chance Newton

Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Henry Engelhardt

Henry Allan Engelhardt (born 17 January 1958) is the founder and chief executive of Admiral Group, a British motor insurance company.

Henry Flynt

Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, reprinting of Henry Flynt, Concept Art (1961) pp.

Henry George Hughes

Henry George Hughes (10 August 1810 – 22 July 1872) was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

Henry Hewes

Henry Hewes (April 9, 1917 – July 18, 2006) was the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979.

Henry II of Rodez

Henry II (Occitan: Enric II de Rodés) (c. 1236–1304), of the House of Millau, was the Count of Rodez and Viscount of Carlat from 1274 until his death.

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (1215 – 12 June 1266) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben.

Henry James Thomas

Henry “Hank” James Thomas was born on August 29, 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Henry Melville

Henry Melville (1799-1873) was an Australian author and journalist best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers.

Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Henry was canon of the cathedral in Halberstadt, Knight of the Prussian Royal Order of the Black Eagle and a member of the Order of Saint John.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Henry Wray

Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.

Herb Hake

Herbert V. Hake, son of Henry and Louisa Hake, was born August 10, 1903, in Hoyleton, Illinois.

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Løkken IF

Notable skiers were Kåre Vaslag and the five brothers Henry, Torger, Kyrre, Egil and Arthur E. Tokle.

Maria of Swabia

Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married as his first wife Henry, heir to the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier.

Matilda of Franconia

At a meeting with King Henry I of France in Deville in Lorraine in May 1033, Emperor Conrad II agreed to marry his five year old daughter Matilda to Henry I. However, before she could marry, she died in early 1034.

Nick Henry

Henry went on to making only 21 appearances for the club, failing to score any goals, and towards the end of his Bramall Lane spell he was loaned out to Walsall F.C. for two months, where he made eight league appearances, failing to score any goals.

Osgood Perkins

Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Henry Phelps Perkins, Jr., and his wife, Helen Virginia (née Anthony).

Peace of Bautzen

Bolesław had enjoyed the close friendship of the emperor Otto III and after his death supported one of Otto's followers, Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen for the position of Holy Roman Emperor, against the claims of Henry II.

Principality of Lüneburg

In 1592, after the death of Duke William, the territory was enlarged with the Ämter of Hitzacker, Lüchow and Warpke, but Henry's demands for a transfer of sovereignty were not met.

Raphael Pumpelly

Elizabeth Cabot who married Henry Holt, Jr., the son of Henry Holt, founder of Henry Holt and Company and Taber Florence, and Pauline Cabot who married George Pierce Metcalf, son of Stephen Olney Metcalf.

Sankaty Head Golf Club

Famous members include Jack Welch (whose island residence is just off the 4th tee-box), Bob Wright, Harry Fraker, Larry Bossidy, Amos Hostetter, Henry C. Pfaff, and Bill Belichick.

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

He married Emma, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, on 13 July 1787; she was a niece of Frances Julia (née Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell), second wife of the 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960), an Oscar-nominated American actress and wife of Henry Fonda, William Wyler, and Leland Hayward

The Sea Ghost

In 1925 New Orleans, lawyer Henry Sykes (Clarence Wilson) hires now civilian Captain Winters for a salvage job on behalf of Evelyn Inchcape (Laura La Plante).

Thomas Grigg

Born in Maldon to miner Thomas Henry Grigg and Elizabeth Jones, he attended state school before becoming a miner in 1902.

Thomas H. Seymour

Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton

Southampton is a character in Hilary Mantel's novels on Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, (nicknamed Call-Me Risley for the pronunciation of the family name), and in Margaret George's novel, The Autobiography of Henry VIII

Von Plötzke

Heinrich von Plötzke (also Henry of Płock, d. 1320), Land Master of Teutonic Prussia (1307–1309), Prussian Grand Commander (1309-1312) and then till 1320 Marshall of the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

William Henry Bay

After Alaska was purchased by the US Government in 1867, the first effort to identify the timber trade route from Lynn Canal to Haines via William Henry Bay was made in 1869 by Navy Commander Richard Worsam Meade.

William Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901–81), 59th Governor of Rhode Island, grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt


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