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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: William III of England
William III was appointed to the Dutch post of Stadtholder on 28 June 1672 (Old Style), and remained in office until he died.
William III felt insecure about his position; though only his wife was formally eligible to assume the throne, he wished to reign as King in his own right, rather than as a mere consort.
William III (of England, Scotland, and Ireland), called William of Orange (1650-1702), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-1702), and stadtholder of the Netherlands (1672-1702), who helped form the Grand Alliance and led England in its so-called Glorious Revolution.
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  Henry III (of England) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Henry III (of England) (1207-1272), king of England (1216-1272), son and successor of King John (Lackland), and a member of the house of Anjou, or...
Henry III was not an able king, however.
Henry III (1 October 1207 16 November 1272) was crowned King of England in 1216, despite being less than ten years of age.
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 Henry III (of England) - MSN Encarta
Henry III (of England) (1207-1272), king of England (1216-1272), son and successor of King John (Lackland), and a member of the house of Anjou, or Plantagenet.
Henry ascended the throne at the age of nine, on the death of his father.
Henry displeased the barons by filling government and church offices with foreign favorites, many of them relatives of his wife, Eleanor of Provence, whom he married in 1236, and by squandering money on Continental wars, especially in France.
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 GENUKI: Kings of England - H
King of England and Denmark, was the son of Canute, and succeeded his father on the Danish throne in 1039; and at the same time laid claim to that of England, which had devolved to his half-brother, Harold.
Henry II., King of England, first of the Plantagenet line, was the eldest son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, and his wife, the ex-Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I., and was born at Mans, in March, 1133.
King of England, first sovereign of the Tudor line, was the son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and his wife, Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of the eldest son of John of Gaunt, and was born, probably at Pembroke Castle, in 1456.
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 Krafft Family - Person Page 46
Henry III of England King of England was born on 1 October 1207 at Winchester, England.
Henry III of England King of England died on 16 November 1272 at Winchester, England, at age 65.
Marguerite of France married Edward I of England King of England, son of Henry III of England King of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 10 September 1299 at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England.
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 Henry III, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Henry became king under a regency; William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke, and later Pandulf acted as chief of government, while Peter des Roches was the king’s guardian.
Henry then assumed direct control of the government, but despite frequent protests from the barons and from his brother, Richard, earl of Cornwall, the king continued to surround himself with French favorites, including relatives of Eleanor of Provence (whom he married in 1236) and his own Poitevin half brothers.
Henry III has suffered at the hands of many historians, in part, because of the hostility of contemporary chroniclers.
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 Edward I of England
He lived from 1239 to 1307, ascending to the throne of England upon the death of his father, King Henry III of England, in 1272.
Edward was born at the Palace of Westminister on June 17 or 18, 1239.
Edward died in 1307 at Burgh-on-Sands, Northumberland and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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 Henry II
Henry II of England (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189) ruled as Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and as King of England (1154–1189) and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland, eastern Ireland, and western France.
Henry II established courts in various parts of England, and first instituted the royal practice of granting magistrates the power to render legal decisions on a wide range of civil matters in the name of the Crown.
Following a heated exchange at Henry's court, Becket left England in 1164 for France to solicit in person the support of Pope Alexander III, who was in exile in France due to dissension in the college of Cardinals, and of King Louis VII of France.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 26
Henry was the last of the house of Lancaster.
In 1464 Henry was captured an imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Henry founded Eton College and King's College, University of Cambridge, was venerated by many as a saint because of his piety.
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 1200 - 1300
Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence
Henry III of England is forced to agree to the Provisions of Oxford, by which he agrees to share his power with a council of barons.
Henry III of England dies, and his son Edward I (called Longshanks) is recognized as king, although he is still away at the crusades.
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 Henry III of England - Wikinfo
Henry III (October 1, 1207 - November 16, 1272) is one of the least-known British monarchs, considering the great length of his reign.
He was born in 1207, the son of the infamous King John, and succeeded to the throne at the age of nine, with the result that the country was ruled by regents until 1227.
Henry's son, Edward, turned the tables on de Montfort in 1265 at the Battle of Evesham, following which savage retribution was exacted on the rebels.
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 England King
James I of England - James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland (occasionally known as King James the Vain) (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland.
Richard III of England - Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was the King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York.
Until 1066 England was ruled by monarchs elected by the mercy of God and the use she makes of records of court cases involving people arrested for slandering the queen, that give The Heart and Stomach of a weak and feeble woman, but I have been crowned king of said kingdom".
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 Henry III @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
Henry was the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême. He was nine years old when his father died naming Henry his heir.
Henry III was considered to reach his majority by early 1227 and went to his first military campaign against France [5] in May 1230 to reconquer Poitou and Brittany occupied by the French.
Henry and his eldest son, Prince Edward (later King Edward I), were defeated and captured at the Battle of Lewes (14 May 1264).
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 William III (of England, Scotland, and Ireland) - MSN Encarta
William III (of England, Scotland, and Ireland), called William of Orange (1650-1702), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-1702), and stadtholder of the Netherlands (1672-1702), who helped form the Grand Alliance and led England in its so-called Glorious Revolution.
Born on November 14, 1650, in The Hague, Holland, William was the posthumous son of William II, prince of Orange and stadtholder of the Netherlands, and Mary, eldest daughter of the English King Charles I.
As a result of William's superior diplomacy, however, which also included the strengthening of ties with England by his marriage (1677) to the English princess Mary (eldest daughter of his uncle, James, Duke of York, later King James II), Louis XIV agreed to terminate the war on terms favourable to the Dutch.
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 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Henry III.
Henry III, the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angouleme, was born on 1st October, 1207 at Winchester.
Three years later Henry III himself died on 16 November, 1272 aged sixty- five, and was the first of the Plantagenets to be buried within the Abbey, which was later to become the mausoleum of England's monarchs.
Henry was succeeded by his oldest son, Edward I. The shrine of Edward the Confessor built by Henry III at Westminster Abbey.
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 TimeRef - History Timelines - HENRY (III, King of England 1216-1272)
Henry became King of England in 1216 at the age of only ten after the death of his father King John and was crowned several later at the abbey of Gloucester.
In 1236 Henry married Eleanor of Provance, the younger sister of the Queen of France and their first son Edward was to become the next king of England.
Henry was not a good soldier or leader and eventhough he attempted to regain some of the territories lost in his father's reign, nothing was achieved.
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Henry married Eleanor of Provence in 1236 when he was 29 & she was 14.
King of England HENRY III,[Parents] was born on 1 Oct 1207 in, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Shortly after the accession of the young Henry III, the charter was reissued by the regent, William Marshall.
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 Royalty.nu - English Royal History - The Plantagenet Dynasty
Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England by Margaret Howell.
The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Blood Relics of Westminster and Hailes by Nicholas Vincent.
Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216-1272 by Bjorn K. Weiler.
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Edward was the eldest son of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence.
Henry negotiated Edward's marriage with Eleanor, half sister of Alfonso X of Leon and Castile.
One of the richest Jews in England around 1255 was Abraham of Berkhamstead, presented that same year to the Earl by King Henry III.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Plantagenets > Henry III
Richard II Henry III - gilt-bronze tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey; the effigy was commissioned from William Torel in 1291
Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the king's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
However, Henry escaped, joined forces with the lords of the Marches (on the Welsh border), and finally defeated and killed de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for William III England
William III (of Orange) (1650–1702) Prince of Orange and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689–1702).
1650-1702, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-1702); son of William II, prince of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and of Mary, oldest daughter of King Charles I of England.
1859-1941, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia (1888-1918), son and successor of Frederick III and grandson of William I of Germany and of Queen Victoria of England.
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 AllRefer.com - Henry III (of England) Information
King of England from 1216, when he succeeded John, but the royal powers were exercised by a regency until 1232, and by two French nobles, Peter des Roches and Peter des Rivaux, until the barons forced their expulsion in 1234, marking the start of Henry's personal rule.
Henry's refusal to accept the provisions led to the second Barons'; War in 1264, a revolt of nobles led by his brother-in-law Simon de Montfort.
Henry was defeated at Lewes, Sussex, and imprisoned, but restored to the throne after the royalist victory at Evesham in 1265.
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 Royals
HENRY III OF9 *ENGLAND, KOE (JOHN I *PLANTAGENET OF8 ENGLAND, KOE, HENRY II7 *PLANTAGENET, OF ENGLAND, GEOFFREY V6, FULK V5 DE *ANJOU, THE YOUNG, FULK IV4, ALBERIC III OF3 GATINAIS, ALBERIC II OF2, AUBRI OF1) was born 10 October 1206 in Winchester, England, and died 16 November 1272 in Westminster, England.
MARGARET OF11 ENGLAND (EDWARD I LONGSHANKS OF10 *ENGLAND, KOE, HENRY III OF9, JOHN I *PLANTAGENET OF8 ENGLAND, KOE, HENRY II7 *PLANTAGENET, OF ENGLAND, GEOFFREY V6, FULK V5 DE *ANJOU, THE YOUNG, FULK IV4, ALBERIC III OF3 GATINAIS, ALBERIC II OF2, AUBRI OF1) was born 11 September 1275 in Windsor, England, and died 1319.
HENRY IV13 DE BAR-LE-DUC (EDWARD I12, ELEANOR11 PLANTAGENET, EDWARD I LONGSHANKS OF10 *ENGLAND, KOE, HENRY III OF9, JOHN I *PLANTAGENET OF8 ENGLAND, KOE, HENRY II7 *PLANTAGENET, OF ENGLAND, GEOFFREY V6, FULK V5 DE *ANJOU, THE YOUNG, FULK IV4, ALBERIC III OF3 GATINAIS, ALBERIC II OF2, AUBRI OF1) was born Aft.
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