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Sir Edward Holland

Children? Or a litter of 14th-century what….?

Feb 21, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

children, Constance Holland, Dartington Hall, Elizabeth of Lancaster, John Duke of Exeter, Sir Edward Holland, Sir Richard Holland

“….John and his elder brother, Richard, and younger brother, Edward, and their sister, Constance, were bred as children at Dartington….” Um, what else might they have been bred as? 🤪 I won’t identify the source – not fair, because people like me aren’t supposed to see it as funny!
Latin inscriptions are a mystery to me….

Jul 29, 2019

anniversaries, battles, sources

bones, Epiphany Rising, executions, Google Translate, Henry IV, Henry V, John Duke of Exeter, Latin, siege of Rouen, Sir Edward Holland, soldiers, Weever’s Ancient Funerary Monuments

My mastery of Latin was gleaned at the age of 13, when for one dizzying year I was elevated to the “A” stream of King Edward VI’s Grammar School for Girls, Louth, Lincolnshire. Then they realized I wasn’t that bright, after all, and down I went! The result of this demotion is that I…