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On This Day In History . 24th January 1328 . . Edward III married Phillipa of Hainault. . . ◼ Edward married his cousin, Phillipa of Hainault, granddaughter of Phillip III of France. . . ◼ The marriage had been negotiated by Edward's mother, Isabella, in the summer of 1326, Isabella, who was estranged from her husband, Edward II, visited the Hainaut court, along with Prince Edward, to obtain aid from Count William to depose King Edward in return for the couple's betrothal. . ▪ After a dispensation had been obtained for the marriage of the cousins (they were both descendants of Philip III), Philippa arrived in England in December 1327 escorted by her uncle, John of Hainaut. . ◼ The marriage, celebrated at York Minster on 24th January, 1328, was a happy one, the two became very close & produced a large family. . ▪ Phillipa was kind & inclined to be generous & exercised a steadying influence on her husband. Their eldest son Edward, later known as the Black Prince, was born on 15th June 1330, when his father was eighteen. Phillipa of Hainault was a popular Queen Consort, who was widely loved & respected, & theirs was a very close marriage, despite Edward's frequent infidelities. She frequently acted as Regent in England during Edward's absences in France. . ▪ Edward & Phillipa produced twelve children in all, among them were John of Gaunt, later the 1st Duke of Lancaster, (father of King Henry IV) . . 👑 Follow @york_minster_official . . .. #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayinHistory #TheYear1328 #History #RoyalWedding #EdwardIII #EdwardIIIofEngland #KingEdwardIII #HouseofPlantagenet #Plantagenets #KingofEngland #EnglishMonarchy #PhillipaofHainault #D24jan #Plantagenet #BritishMonarchy #YorkMinster #heritage #York #Yorkshire #HistoryFacts #weddingday #historicart #Crown #England (at York Minster) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCNf6hF2JI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=28fkktpxfs6j

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On This Day In History . 24 January 1536 . . King Henry VIII injured in jousting accident . . ◼ On the 24th January 1536, the forty-four year-old King Henry VIII had a serious jousting accident at Greenwich Palace. . ◼ The accident occurred at a tournament at Greenwich Palace when Henry, in full armour, was thrown from his horse, itself armoured, which then fell on top of him. He was unconscious for two hours & was thought at first to have been fatally injured. But, although he recovered, the incident, which ended his jousting career, aggravated serious leg problems which plagued him for the rest of his life. . ◼ Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial Ambassador, reported it in his dispatches, writing:- “On the eve of the Conversion of St. Paul, the King being mounted on a great horse to run at the lists, both fell so heavily that every one thought it a miracle he was not killed, but he sustained no injury." . ◼ Dr Ortiz also recorded the accident in a letter to the Empress:- “The French king said that the king of England had fallen from his horse, & been for two hours without speaking. “La Ana” (Anne Boleyn) was so upset that she miscarried of a son.” (five days after the accident) . ◼ As historian Suzannah Lipscomb points out in her book “1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII”, the combination of speed, the weight of Henry’s armour and possibly the horse, & the blow to his head made it a serious accident, & it is amazing that Henry survived. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #theyear1536 #D24jan #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #HouseofTudor #TudorDynasty #TheTudors #KingofEngland #AnneBoleyn #tournament  #EnglishMonarchy #History #HenryVIIIofEngland #Tudor #Tudortimes #heritage #TheKing #Historic #Art #jousting #joust #horsemanship #England #British #Greenwich #HistoryFacts #hismajesty (at Greenwich) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCOV3JFBfE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e2qabfm5tvbe

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On this day in history . 24th January 1965 . . Sir Winston Churchill died. . ◼ On 15 January 1965, Churchill suffered a severe stroke that left him gravely ill. He died at his London home nine days later, at age 90, on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965, 70 years to the day after his father's death. . ▪️. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman, army officer & writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 & again from 1951 to 1955. Over the course of his career as a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies in both England & Scotland. . ◼ During his time as Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to an allied victory in the Second World War. He was Conservative Party leader from 1940 to 1955. . ◼ In 1953, Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his lifetime body of work, the prize cited "his mastery of historical & biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". . Rest in Peace . Follow @blenheimpalace . . . #OnThisDayinHistory #D24Jan #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1965 #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #SirWinstonChurchill #WinstonLeonardSpencerChurchill #Politician #PrimeMinister #WinstonSChurchill #BlenheimPalace #GeorgeV (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCPDV3lESK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2mgt2vrjms55