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  Earl of Shrewsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl on the Roll in the Peerage of England (the more senior Earldom of Arundel being held by the Duke of Norfolk).
The 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was created Earl of Waterford, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland, in 1446, and the two earldoms have been united since.
The seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury was once Alton Towers until it was sold to The Tussauds Group.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Shrewsbury   (398 words)

  
 HUNTINGDON - LoveToKnow Article on HUNTINGDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Being in high favor with Henry VIII., he was created earl of Huntingdon in 1529, and he was one of the royalist leaders during the suppression of the rising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536.
In 1572 he was appointed president of the council of the north, and during the troubled period between the ffight of Mary to England in 1568 and the defeat of the Spanish armada twenty years later he was frequently employed in the north of England.
He assisted George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, to remove the Scottish queen from Wingfield to Tutbury, and for a short time in 1569 he was one of her custodians.
71.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNTINGDON.htm   (802 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Henry VI, part 1 Article
She defeats an English army led by Talbot (Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury).
While in France, Talbot and fellow Englishmen are trapped in the castle of a countess, but Talbot is prepared and foils her plan.
Lord Talbot, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury (John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury)
www.ipedia.com /henry_vi__part_1.html   (827 words)

  
 WHITE, A. D. - LoveToKnow Article on WHITE, A. D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Henry I. made a grant to the abbot and convent of Whitby of a burgage in the vill of Whitby, and Richard de Waterville, abbot 11751190, granted the town in free burgage to the burgesses.
In 1200 King John, bribed by the burgesses, confirmed this charter, but in 1201, bribed by the successor of Richard de Waterville, quashed it as injurious to the dignity of the church of Whitby.
It was sold by the Talbots to Thomas Egerton, from whom it passed to the earls of Bridgwater and eventually to the present owner, Earl Brownlow.
67.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITE_A_D_.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Articles - Richard III of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
He was involved in ongoing battles between different alliances of the House of Lancaster and the House of York factions during the last half of the 15th Century.
At the time of his father's death at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard was still a boy, and was taken into the care of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as "The Kingmaker" because of his strong influence on the course of the Wars of the Roses.
John Morton, Bishop of Ely and later Archbishop of Canterbury, is considered by some to be an important source of the Tudor propaganda against Richard III.
www.dcustom.com /articles/King_Richard_III   (2955 words)

  
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1966 Stephane Talbot, born in Greenfield Park, Quebec, golfer, 1992 Quebec PGA
1959 John Arthur Wilson, Ceres California, PGA golfer, 1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th
1957 John Neuman Cook, born in Toledo, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1981 Bing Crosby
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