Sir James Douglas
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The de Berkeley Heart Burials St Giles Church , Coberley
Alfonso of Chester, Berkeleys, Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, Coberley Church, Crecy, Crusades, Dunfermline Abbey, Edward I, Edward III, Eleanor of Castile, English Church Monuments, Gloucestershire, heart burials, Historic Conservation, Holy Land, horses, Joan Archer, Joan of the Tower, Lombard, Melrose Abbey, Phillippa of Hainault, Ranulph Lord Dacre, Richard Whittington, Robert I, Sir Giles de Berkeley, Sir James Douglas, Sir Thomas de Berkeley, St. Giles’ Church, Towton, William of Windsor, William WhittingtonReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com 14th century monument to Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Coberley (1289-d.1365) and his wife Joan Lady de Berkeley nee Archer d. 1369. The small monument besides the Berkeley monument is that commemorating a heart burial belonging to an unknown female. St Giles’ Church, Coberley, Gloucestershire. Photo C B Newham Church Monuments…
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Treason from a Scottish perspective
Archibald the Grim, Battle of Falkirk, Battle of Methven, Blind Harry, England, executions, George Dunbar Earl of March, Henry IV, James III, John Barbour, Malcolm Drummond, poetry, propaganda, Richard II, Robert I, Scotland, Sir James Douglas, Thomas Randolph Earl of Murray, treason, William WallaceThis article tells the story of Scottish treason in the time of William Wallace, Robert I and afterwards, through the tradition of oral history. The image below is supposedly of Hugh le Despenser the Younger, although there must be some cases more relevant to Scotland.
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