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5 unusual facts about King Philip


John Alderman

Alderman later sold the severed head to Plymouth Colony authorities for 30 shillings, a standard rate for Indian heads during King Philip's War.

John Christian Hopkins

His first book, Carlomagno, is based off King Philip's War, fictionally elaborating on the story of King Philip's captured son, whom he names "Carlomagno."

King Philip's War

The legend of Connecticut's Charter Oak stems from the belief that a cavity within the tree was used in late 1687 as a hiding place for the colony's charter as Andros tried unsuccessfully to revoke its charter and take over the militia.

Historians disagree on the reasons for his death, and Jill Lepore notes that most relate to his role as "cultural mediator," negotiating with both sides and no longer belonging to either.

Raynham, Massachusetts

The Leonards had forged a friendship before the war began with King Philip, who lived in the area.


Assawompset Pond

The origins of the King Philip's War started with the discovery of John Sassamon's body and the subsequent trial of his suspected murderers.

Château de Tournoël

Whereas Guy II favored the claims of Richard the Lionheart to the Auvergne, his brother Robert, bishop of Clermont, sided with King Philip-Augustus.

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

It was founded in 1554 as "The Free Grammar School of King Philip and Queen Mary" “for the education, instruction and learning of boys and young men in grammar; to be and to continue for ever.”

Daingean

The town and the county was so named after her husband and co-monarch, King Philip.

Damariscove Island

On August 20, 1676, in the aftermath of King Philip's War, a massive Native American assault attacked and burned every settlement east of the Kennebec River, including the nearby settlement of Pemaquid.

Demographics of Bermuda

The best known examples were the Algonquian peoples, who were exiled from the New England colonies and sold into slavery in the 17th century, notably in the aftermaths of the Pequot War and King Philip's War, but some are have believed to come from as far away as Mexico.

Mashpee, Massachusetts

Following their defeat in King Philip's War (1675–1676), the Wampanoag of the mainland were resettled with the Sakonnet in present-day Rhode Island or brought, together with the Nauset, into the praying towns in Barnstable County.

The Narragansett Dawn

Through her mother, Red Wing is related to prominent Indians in American history such as Simeon Simons (who fought with George Washington) and Metacomet ( or "King Philip") who led a war against the colonists in the 1670's.


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Amery of Pavy

Some time in 1348, without the knowledge of either King Edward or King Philip, Amery entered into a secret agreement with Sir Geoffrey de Charney, a French knight and governor of nearby Saint-Omer, for the sale of Calais to Sir Geoffrey in exchange for the sum of 20,000 crowns.

Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland

When Graham betrayed her husband to James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, she and her baby escaped to the Continent, arriving in Bruges on 31 August 1570, where she sought aid from Pope Pius V and King Philip II of Spain to raise money for her husband's ransom; the Pope gave her four thousand crowns and King Philip sent her six thousands marks.

Fuca

Juan de Fuca (1536 - 1602), a Greek maritime pilot in the service of the Spanish king Philip II

Great Swamp Fight

On August 12, 1676 the leader of the Wampanoag sachem, Metacomet (also known as King Philip) was shot and killed by John Alderman, a Native American soldier in Benjamin Church's company.

Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages

Now King Philip V, but mostly his second wife, energetic and ambitious former Italian Princess Elizabeth of Parma, wanted to retake all former Spanish territories in Italy for her son King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily.

Joan, Duchess of Brittany

In 1341 on the death of John III, the couple assumed the rule of the duchy of Brittany, Charles having been granted permission to perform homage by King Philip VI by the arrêt of Conflans on 7 September 1341.

João I, Duke of Braganza

When King Philip left to Spain, he endowed the post of Constable of Kingdom to João's heir Teodósio, 7th Duke of Braganza, a marquessate (Flexilla-Xarandilla) to his second son, Dom Duarte, and a commendment and many concessions to the third, Dom Alexandre, who was destined to become an ecclesiastic.

John Hoar

Hoar departed Lancaster on April 28, 1676 with two native guides, Nepphonet and Peter Tatatiquinea to meet King Philip's War party at Wachusett Lake, located in what is now Princeton, Massachusetts.

King Philip Regional High School

King Philip Regional High School is a regional high school in Massachusetts drawing students from three towns: Wrentham, Norfolk and Plainville.

Luis Sánchez de Tagle, 1st Marquis of Altamira

Archbishop Juan Ortega y Montañés, who was also the former viceroy of New Spain and a good friend of the Don Luis, complained bitterly to King Philip V of Spain about the actions of the Duke of Alburquerque and the audencia.

Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares

Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares (1585 — Madrid, 1647) was a Portuguese noble and military, loyal to King Philip III of Portugal (Philip IV of Spain).

Nashaway people

During King Philip's War, the Nashaway sachem (chief) Monoco kidnapped a Lancaster villager, Mary Rowlandson, who later wrote a best-selling narrative about her captivity, forced journey to Canada, and release.

Renaud I, Count of Dammartin

Following the acquisition of Normandy in April 1204, King Philip granted Renaud the county of Mortain and the honor of Warenne which was centered on the fortresses of Mortemer and Bellencombre.

Ruy López de Segura

In 1574–75 he lost the first known international Chess Tournament, which was held, at the invitation of King Philip II of Spain, at the Royal Court of Spain in El Escorial, close to Madrid, to Leonardo di Bona, a Calabrian lawyer, and to Paolo Boi, but placing ahead of 4th (and last) place finisher Alfonso Ceron .

The First Templar

They arrive in France in 1307, the year when King Philip IV and Pope Clement V start their accusations against the Templar Order.

William Apess

Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian (1836).