http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/ 2026-06-10T14:50:31+00:00 http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/ http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=favicon.ico text/html 2019-12-08T19:02:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=internal_links&rev=1575831730&do=diff Useful Links Regnal Year Calculator Convert Roman Numerals Smart JPEG and PNG compression Internet Archive Wikipedia Portal:England Portal:Middle Ages Early modern Britain Regnal years of English monarchs British America Beaufort, John, first Earl of Somerset (Dictionary of National Biography) Beaufort, John, first Earl of Somerset and Marquis of Dorset and of Somerset 1373?-1410, born about 1373, was the eldest son of John of Gaunt [see John, 1340-1399], by his … text/html 2017-12-29T23:45:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=the_twelve_conclusions_of_the_lollards&rev=1514591132&do=diff Lollardy Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards We poor men, treasurers of Christ and his Apostles, denounce to the Lords and the Commons of the Parliament certain conclusions and truth for the reformation of the Holy Church of England, the which has been blind and leprous many years by the maintenance of the proud prelacy, borne up with flattering of private religion, the which is multiplied to a great charge and onerous [to] people here in England. text/html 2018-01-12T14:44:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=magna_carta_1215-1225&rev=1515768241&do=diff England >> Plantagenet >> First Barons' War The Great Charter Magna Carta - 15 June 1215 JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting. text/html 2018-01-01T01:57:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=simon_de_montfort_c1208-1265&rev=1514771840&do=diff England >> Plantagenet Simon De Montfort A French born noble, and progenitor of parliamentary democracy... The sworn confederation of seven barons - April 1258 “We, Richard of Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford; Roger Bigod, earl marshal and earl of Norfolk; Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester; Peter of Savoy; Hugh Bigod; John fitz Geoffrey; and Peter of Montfort make known to all people that we have sworn on the holy gospels, and are held together by this oath, and we promise in… text/html 2017-12-23T17:12:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=act_of_accord_1460&rev=1514049155&do=diff England >> Plantagenet Act of Accord 1460 From: “An English Chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI.” Ed. the Rev. 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" “We have had a most cold, wet, and long time of living in the field, but have kept ourselves warm with the hopes of rubbing, fubbing, and scrubbing those scurvy, filthy, dirty, nasty, lousy, itchy, scabby , shitten, stinking, slovenly, snotty-nosed, logger-headed, foolish, insolent, proud, beggarly, impertinent, absurd, grout-headed, villainous, barbarous, beastial, false, lying, roguish, devilish, long-eared, short-haired, dam… text/html 2017-12-24T22:36:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://villageidiotsguideto.com/history/doku.php?id=richard_of_york_1411-1460&rev=1514155015&do=diff England >> Plantagenet Richard of York - 1411-1460 3rd Duke of York Born: 21 September 1411 Died: 30 December 1460 Father: Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge Mother: Anne de Mortimer Married: Cecily Neville Issue: Anne of York 1439-1476 Henry of York 1441, died young