Henry Avray Tipping

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Henry Avray Tipping

Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1885, is a work by Henry Avray Tipping. It explores elements such as Somerset, Baldock and Margaret.

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ Of the two possible heirs to the throne, Margaret, Somerset's niece, represented the parliamentary, York the hereditary title. Whichever party was in power at the moment of the sickly king's death would crown their candidate. Supported by Henry, Somerset, on his return from Caen, carried on the government despite the popular hate; but success abroad would alone secure him in power against the attacks of York, and he bent every effort to re-establish the English ascendency in Gascony, where the strictness of French rule was unpopular. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ He hoped to obtain her in marriage for his son, not without thought of her possible succession to the throne. On the other hand, Henry VI destined her for his half brother Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond. A vision inclined her to the latter suitor, and she was betrothed at once to him, and married in 1455. In the following year the Earl of Richmond died, leaving Margaret with an infant son. The breaking out of the war of the Roses endangered the safety of any related to the throne, and the child-widow retired with the future Henry VII to her brother-in-law's castle of Pembroke. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ As they fled westward with the king, the Londoners wrecked their houses. At Bristol the elder De Spencer was taken and beheaded, the hiding-place of the other fugitives in Wales was revealed by a sufficient bribe, Edward was forced to abdicate, and the younger De Spencer shared his father's fate. The death of Baldock was equally desired by the victorious party, but his orders protected him from a legal execution. He was handed over to Bishop Orlton of Hereford [see Adam of Orlton] , a ministerial churchman more able and more unscrupulous than himself. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ BEAUFORT, JOHN (1403–1444) , first Duke of Somerset, military commander, was the son of John Beaufort, eldest son of John of Gaunt, by Catherine Swynford, who was created Earl of Somerset and died in 1409. John the younger succeeded to the earldom on the death of his brother Henry in 1419. He was early inured to arms, and fought at the age of seventeen with Henry V in France. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ Three canons, who had been deprived by the archbishop during the vacancy of the see, appealed to the pope to declare the election void owing to their exclusion, but the bishop-elect won his cause at Rome, and was consecrated at Lyons in 1306. Though he does not appear to have spent his life at court or in the ministerial offices, he attracted the attention of Edward I, who nominated him lord chancellor in April 1307. The king's death followed in July, and Baldock was at once removed by Edward II at the instigation of the favourite Gaveston. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ The poor creatures that were wont to receive her alms, to whom she was always piteous and merciful: the students of both universities, to whom she was a mother; all the learned men of England, to whom she was a very patroness; all the virtuous and devout persons, to whom she was as a loving sister; all the good religious men and women, whom she so often was wont to visit and comfort ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ Together with the De Spencers he now exercised the greatest power and incurred the fiercest hate. Their position was critical. The queen sought to use the popular feeling to get rid of a husband who neglected her, and of ministers whom she could not control. ”

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Henry Avray Tipping, Dictionary of National Biography… (1885)

“ An educational corporation should be her heir. Her Oxford friends petitioned her on their behalf, and St. Frideswide's might have been turned into a college by Margaret, and not by Wolsey. But Fisher again successfully pleaded the cause of his own university, and the royal license to re-found the corrupt monastic house of St. ”

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