The Countess Lucy PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Countess Lucy PDF full book. Access full book title The Countess Lucy by Richard Edward Gent Kirk. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Richard Edward Gent Kirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Richard Edward Gent Kirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526756072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Get Book Here
Book Description
In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers. Not once, but three times, earning herself the ironic praise that she acted ‘manfully’. Nicholaa gained prominence in the First Baron’s War, the civil war that followed the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215. Although recently widowed, and in her 60s, in 1217 Nicholaa endured a siege that lasted over three months, resisting the English rebel barons and their French allies. The siege ended in the battle known as the Lincoln Fair, when 70-year-old William Marshal, the Greatest Knight in Christendom, spurred on by the chivalrous need to rescue a lady in distress, came to Nicholaa’s aid. Nicholaa de la Haye was a staunch supporter of King John, remaining loyal to the very end, even after most of his knights and barons had deserted him. A truly remarkable lady, Nicholaa was the first woman to be appointed sheriff in her own right. Her strength and tenacity saved England at one of the lowest points in its history. Nicholaa de la Haye is one woman in English history whose story needs to be told…
Author: George Edward Cokayne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Walford Dakin Selby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: George Gatfield
Publisher: London : Mitchell and Hughes
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Get Book Here
Book Description
