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On This Day In Royal History . 7 June 1394 . Anne of Bohemia died from the Plague . ◼ Anne of Bohemia, born 11 May 1366 was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor & King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. . ◼ She had four brothers, including Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and one younger sister, Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg. She also had five half-siblings from her father’s previous marriages. . ◼ The Evesham chronicler said, “this queen, although she did not bear children, was still held to have contributed to the glory & wealth of the realm, as far as she was able. Noble & common people suffered greatly at her death”. Nevertheless, her popular legacy as “Good Queen Anne” suggests that this lack of children was unimportant to many contemporaries. . ◼ Anne is buried at Westminster beside her husband. Their joint tomb, now damaged, once showed them clasping hands. The inscription on her tomb describes her as “beauteous in body & her face was gentle & pretty.” When her tomb was opened in 1871, it was discovered that many of her bones had been stolen via a hole in the side of the casket. . 👑 Anne of Bohemia is known to have made the sidesaddle more popular to ladies of the Middle Ages. She also influenced the design of carts in England when she arrived in a carriage, presumably from Kocs, Hungary, to meet her future husband Richard. She also made the horned, Bohemian-style headdress the fashion for Englishwomen in the late 14th-century. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1394 #AnneofBohemia #QueenConsort #RichardII #KingRichardII #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseOfLuxembourg #KingdomofBohemia #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #d7jun #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #RoyalFamily #Royalty #royals #QueenofEngland (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJSlq0Djju/?igshid=16z4shtos9e1y

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On This Day In History . 7 June 1394 . Anne of Bohemia died from the Plague . . About Anne; . ◼ Anne of Bohemia, born 11 May 1366 was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor & King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. . ◼ She had four brothers, including Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and one younger sister, Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg. She also had five half-siblings from her father's previous marriages. . ◼ The Evesham chronicler said, "this queen, although she did not bear children, was still held to have contributed to the glory & wealth of the realm, as far as she was able. Noble & common people suffered greatly at her death". Nevertheless, her popular legacy as "Good Queen Anne" suggests that this lack of children was unimportant to many contemporaries. . ◼ Anne is buried at Westminster beside her husband. Their joint tomb, now damaged, once showed them clasping hands. The inscription on her tomb describes her as "beauteous in body & her face was gentle & pretty." When her tomb was opened in 1871, it was discovered that many of her bones had been stolen via a hole in the side of the casket. . 👑 Anne of Bohemia is known to have made the sidesaddle more popular to ladies of the Middle Ages. She also influenced the design of carts in England when she arrived in a carriage, presumably from Kocs, Hungary, to meet her future husband Richard. She also made the horned, Bohemian-style headdress the fashion for Englishwomen in the late 14th-century. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1394 #AnneofBohemia #QueenConsort #RichardII #KingRichardII #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseOfLuxembourg #KingdomofBohemia #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #d7jun #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #RoyalFamily #Royalty #royals #QueenofEngland (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByZr7veghXW/?igshid=13qxyyaba4bhe

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On This Day In History . 4 June 1394 . 1394 - Mary de Bohun died . . ◼ Mary de Bohun born, c. 1368, was the first wife of King Henry IV of England & the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen, as she died before her husband came to the throne. . 💠 Mary was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, & Joan FitzAlan, the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, & Eleanor of Lancaster. Through her mother, Mary was descended from Llywelyn the Great. . 💠 As a child Mary was pressured into becoming a nun. However, John of Gaunt (Mary's future father-in-law), with the aid of Mary's mother, Joan, abducted her from the convent to be married to his son, the future Henry IV. . 💠 Mary married Henry then known as Bolingbroke on 27 July 1380, at Arundel Castle. At the time of her marriage, Mary was perhaps little more than twelve years old. . 💠It was at Monmouth Castle, one of her husband's possessions, that Mary gave birth to her first two children, both boys. Henry, the surviving son, was later to become Prince of Wales when his father seized the throne from Richard II in 1399. On the death of his father in 1413, he became King of England as Henry V. . Her children were: . ▪ Henry V, King of England (1386–1422) . ▪ Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1387–1421) . ▪ John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389–1435) . ▪ Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447) . ▪ Blanche of England (1392–1409) married in 1402 Louis III, Elector Palatine . ▪ Philippa of England (1394–1430) married in 1406 Eric of Pomerania, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. . 👑 Mary de Bohun died at Peterborough Castle, giving birth to her last child, a daughter, Philippa of England. She was buried at the Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayinHistory #TheYear1394 #d4jun #MaryDeBohun #CountessofNorthampton #CountessofDerby #Countess #Royalty #Monarchy #HenryIV #KingHenryIV #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #InstaHistory #Royalfamily (at Peterborough) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTKvvwgMPI/?igshid=17w5in2ny97ix