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4 days ago · Martha Lovelace, her daughter, who as granddaughter and heir of John Lord Lovelace was suo jure Baroness Wentworth, married Sir Henry Johnson. She died in 1745 without issue and Bradenham passed under her will to her cousin and heir Edward (Noel) Lord Wentworth, created a viscount in 1762.
5 days ago · Enjoy access to more than 500 places with National Trust membership. Explore the glorious gardens, woodland and parkland at Wentworth Castle Gardens, South Yorkshire, created for the privileged few and now preserved for everyone.
4 days ago · How much policy, how much revulsion for Anne, and how much attraction for Jane Seymour played in the final tragedy is beyond analysis, but 11 days after Anne’s execution Henry married Jane. Sixteen months later the future Edward VI was born.
3 days ago · In his 2006 book, Nick Pelling proposed that the Voynich manuscript was written by 15th-century North Italian architect Antonio Averlino (also known as "Filarete"), a theory broadly consistent with the radiocarbon dating.
4 days ago · A very remarkable story is told of this couple in the Strafford Letters, a book which abounds with curious anecdote: "Young Desmond, (says Mr. Garrard, writing to Lord Wentworth,) who married one of the coheirs of Sir Michael Stanhope, came one morning to York-house, where his wife had long lived with the duchess during his two years absence ...
4 days ago · Princess Anne has said she “can't remember a single thing” about the horse accident that left her in hospital with head injuries as she made a surprise return to royal duties.
4 days ago · His son having been drowned, the title and some of the property became the right of his daughter Anne, wife of John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and on her death in 1384 descended to her son John Hastings, the third earl, who died without issue in 1389.
