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  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (January 7, 1355 September 8 (or 9), 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa.
Thomas was murdered in Calais in 1397 on behalf of his nephew, King Richard II of England.
Woodstock's wife's younger sister, Mary de Bohun, was subsequently married to Henry "Bolingbroke," who eventually became Henry IV of England.
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 My Family
Thomas (Duke of Clarence) was born in 1388 in Kenilworth.
Thomas of Brotherton (Earl of Norfolk) was born on 1 Jun 1300 in Brotherton, Yorkshire, England.
Thomas of Woodstock (Duke of Gloucester) was born on 7 Jan 1355 in Woodstock.
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 THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE OF (1355-1397), seventh and youngest son of the English king Edward III., was born at Woodstock on the 7th of January 1355.
1373), Thomas obtained the office of constable of England, a position previously held by the Bohuns, and was made earl of Buckingham by his nephew, Richard II., at the coronation in July 1377.
The relations between the brothers, hitherto somewhat strained, were not improved by this proceeding, as Thomas, doubtless, was hoping to retain possession of Marys estates.
1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTER_THOMAS_OF_WOODSTOCK_DUKE_OF.htm   (700 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of 1355–97, English nobleman; youngest son of Edward III.
He was betrothed (1374) to Eleanor, heiress of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and became earl of Buckingham at the coronation of Richard II (1377).
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 Search Results for "Woodstock"
...Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of, 1355-97, English nobleman; youngest son of Edward III.
Woodstock, Md. After serving from 1869 to 1879 in the Maryland legislature, he was elected to the U.S. Senate...
Woodstock, Vt. He was a lawyer and a civil engineer before joining the staff of the Denver...
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 Edward III of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(8) Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397), Duke of Gloucester.
Thomas, who was one of the Lords Appellant influential under Richard II, was murdered or executed for treason, likely by the order of Richard II; his eventual heir was his daughter Anne, who married into the Stafford family, whose heirs became the Dukes of Buckingham.
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, descended on his father's side from Thomas of Woodstock, and on his mother's side from John Beaufort, rebelled against Richard III in 1483 but failed to depose him.
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 East Tennessean Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During his arrest, Thomas was found to be in possession of marijuana in such amounts and packaged in such a way as to be intended for resale which is a felony charge.
Thomas' bond was placed at $28,000, of which he paid the required 10 percent to local bail bondsman/bounty hunter Allen Hood.
Thomas told a number of people that he had a girlfriend in Ecuador and was planning to visit her there again soon.
www.etsu.edu /etnews/news/n0930_1.htm   (493 words)

  
 EMLS 9.2 (September 2003): 9.1-7 Review of Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge, eds. Thomas of Woodstock or Richard the ...
Thomas of Woodstock or Richard the Second, Part One is an anonymous and untitled Elizabethan manuscript play of some 2989 lines, missing a front cover, list of dramatis personae and an unknown number of final pages.
Woodstock in their view is not just a symbolic figure of ethical and political rectitude but a persuasive and contradictory character, a real man "continually at war with himself" (35).
Thomas of Woodstock: or King Richard the Second, Part One is a handy new edition that fails to replace Rossiter because it has less to say, both critically and in terms of scholarship.
www.shu.ac.uk /emls/09-2/eganwood.html   (689 words)

  
 John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the third son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan "the fair maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, a son of Edward I.
Holland helped the king take down Thomas of Woodstock and Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel in 1397.
Among those who witnessed the execution was Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, son of the Earl of Arundel who Holland had arrested some years before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Holland,_1st_Duke_of_Exeter   (588 words)

  
 Thomas of Woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas of Woodstock is named after and centers on one of the infamous seven sons of the 14th-century British monarch Edward III.
And Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Lord Protector of the Realm, played a crucial role in unfolding the drama at the outset.
Woodstock's multi-hued use of language also reveals a Shakespearean love of words, setting forth the same kind of idiosyncratic wordplay that define Shake-speare's style--in more elemental form than what can be found in his mature works.
www.everreader.com /Woodstck.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
"Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of." Encyclopædia Britannica.
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 I22983: Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucester ( - )
I22983: Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucester (-)
Spouses of Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucester
Descendants of Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucester and Eleanor De Bohun
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 Thomas of Woodstock
York characterizes Thomas of Woodstock as admirably "plain dealing" (I.i.100) and solid English with "unsophisticated plainness" in fashion (I.i.103), before he himself enters with Lord Mayor Exton, telling the latter to beware further plots.
Woodstock credits her with introducing the practice of women riding side-saddle to England.
Woodstock objects to the commons being taxed to the point of rebellion while riches such as Arundel's seafaring conquests are bestowed on the flattering "cankers" (I.iii.155).
www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/woodstock1.html   (771 words)

  
 Thomas of Woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tresilian is outraged by Nimble's ignoring of sumptuary laws: the knave is dressed in the new fashion of the court.
He doesn't recognize Woodstock outside and mistakes him for the groom, so Woodstock holds the servant's horse and endearingly addresses the animal a bit.
For as for example: the toe a disdainer or spurner; the knee a dutiful and most humble orator; this chain doth, as it were, so toeify the knee and so kneeify the toe that between both it makes a most methodical coherence or coherent method.
www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/woodstock3.html   (585 words)

  
 Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Thomas of Woodstock"
The title character is one Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Lord Protector of England (that is, he rules the land until the appointed sovereign comes of age).
Reich in Thomas' philosophical aria to the beast.
A minor quibble: the murder of Thomas was almost played as slapstick, with one Murderer nearly smothering the other by mistake — and at the end of the scene, in half-light, the dead Thomas quickly arose and beat a hasty retreat.
www.theatermirror.com /towecr.htm   (1438 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WOODSTOCK – Margaret C. Stone, 96, of Woodstock, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2005, at Memorial Medical Center in Woodstock.
She was born Oct. 23, 1908, in Woodstock, to Charles and Martha (Anderson) Stone.
She is survived by a niece, Kathy Stone of Woodstock; a nephew, Thomas Stone of Woodstock; a great-niece, Michelle Stone; and a great-nephew, Charles A. Stone IV.
www.nwherald.com /print/290840325778970.php   (223 words)

  
 Woodstock --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–17, 1969.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of, Marquess Of Titchfield, Earl Of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Of Cirencester
The record high is 102.9° F (39.4° C) at Nepisiguit Falls, Rexton, and Woodstock; the low, –53° F (–47.2° C) at Sisson Dam.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077428?tocId=9077428   (833 words)

  
 The Valley Advocate | Stage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of the chief problems of staging Thomas of Woodstock is that the play has no end.
Woodstock's multi-hued use of language also reveals a Shakespearean love of words, setting forth the same kind of idiosyncratic wordplay that define Shakespeare's style -- in more elemental form than what can be found in his mature works.
Some scholars now argue that Woodstock is a 19th-century forgery, that the work indeed has many Shakespearean characteristics but is both too immature and perhaps too Shakespearean to be believed.
www.newmassmedia.com /the.phtml?code=wma&db=the_rev&ref=6031   (1631 words)

  
 Woodstock '99 Happening will happen without taxpayer burden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas said Woodstock promoters will also have to put an additional $500,000 in an escrow account by July 1 in case actual expenses exceed estimates.
Thomas said he didn't think it is necessary for the National Guard to be called in, as has been advocated by Republican state senators Nancy Larraine Hoffmann and Raymond A. Meier.
During Woodstock '94 in Saugerties, the state Legislature provided a supplemental appropriation of $1.7 million to cover state police costs for the festival, according to the State Police After-Action Report.
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 Thomas Lyon & Anne Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to the "Lyon Memorial": Thomas settled in Woodstock, where he was the second schoolmaster in the school house built in 1704.
Thomas was later a Corporal in a company under Israel Putnam during the French and Indian War.
In the distribution of lands in the south half of Woodstock (1725), the heirs of Thomas received lot 21.
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 theater performances 2001
Thomas of Woodstock is a lot more comic, because Richard II's advisors are so ridiculous, though it also has a tragic element, as England is being oppressed by her own and Thomas of Woodstock is mistreated and eventually is murdered.
There weren't many people in the quiet audience, and they were most excited by the courtier's horse, with whom Thomas speaks to in a very sad but funny scene in which Thomas is mistaken for a groom and not the master of his house.
The character of Richard II is easier to sympathize with here than in Thomas of Woodstock, because he is a fallen king instead of the horrid, uncaring tyrant he was previously.
www.kidcremeft.charlise.com /performances/theater2001.html   (2661 words)

  
 Richard II: Commentary (2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas of Woodstock was an anonymous play written in the early 1590s just before Shakespeare wrote Richard II.
Because of his youth, the kingdom was run by a council; in Woodstock his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock is the chief counsellor and Lord Protector.
The result is that the play would probably have been understood on two levels: one level learning of the issues as they arise, finding the quarrel at the beginning rather ambiguous and not knowing who (if anyone) was in the right; the other enjoying a rich subtext of ironies as the characters strut and posture.
www.engl.uvic.ca /Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespeare/R2Course/R2com1.html   (545 words)

  
 I1580: Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucs (7 JAN 1356 - 8 SEP 1397)
I1580: Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucs (7 JAN 1356 - 8 SEP 1397)
Spouses of Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucs
Descendants of Thomas Of Woodstock Duke Of Gloucs and Eleanor De Bohun
web.ukonline.co.uk /nigel.battysmith/Database/D0016/I1580.html   (185 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of c.1366–1399, English nobleman.
He was created earl of Nottingham in 1383, and in 1385 he was made earl marshal of England for life.
He joined Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and the other baronial opponents of Richard II in 1387 and was one of the five lords appellant who "appealed" (i.e., accused) the king's favorites of treason and secured their conviction in the Merciless Parliament of 1388.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NrflkTM.html   (348 words)

  
 GLOUCESTER - LoveToKnow Article on GLOUCESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
successively the wife of Thomas, 3rd earl of Stafford, Edmund, 5th earl of Stafford, and William Bourchier, count of Eu.
Gloucester is supposed to have written L'Ordonnance d'Angleterre pour le camp a I'outrance, ou gaige de bataille.
as part of the cathedral establishment; the school of St Mary de Crypt, founded by Dame Joan Cooke in the same reign; and Sir Thomas Rich's Blue Coat hospital for 34 soys (1666).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTER.htm   (3855 words)

  
 My Family
Children were: Thomas DE BEAUCHAMP (Earl of Warwick).
Thomas DE BEAUCHAMP (Earl of Warwick) died in 1369.
Henry V (King of England), Thomas (Duke of Clarence), John (Duke of Bedford), Humphrey of Gloucester (Duke),
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 Worldwide Woodstock
You may already know that the Woodstock Library provides us with one of the most impressive resources in the country regarding the history of theology, Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus.
But what you may not know is that over the last few years, Woodstock has developed one of the most accessible, powerful, and comprehensive resources for the future of theology and the Society’s work.
For example, another first was achieved in March, when a “webcast” of the Woodstock forum on “prison reform: restorative or retributive justice” allowed people around the world to watch the event on their personal computers.
www.georgetown.edu /centers/woodstock/report/r-fea62c.htm   (497 words)

  
 Thames Valley District School Board: News - Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The area study committees for Woodstock, St. Thomas and Ingersoll were approved by the Board last October to examine elementary school accommodation needs.
Woodstock - to review the elementary configuration of schools with a view to addressing program equity and the establishment of a Junior Kindergarten-Grade 8 delivery model where possible;
that JK and SK students in the south St. Thomas area should not be returned to their home schools at the present time.
www.tvdsb.on.ca /news/1999/19990302.shtml   (1379 words)

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