Eleanor of Castile is most remembered for the ‘Eleanor Crosses’ – the beautiful statues that her grieving husband, Edward I, had erected to mark the …
ELEANOR OF CASTILE AS A LANDOWNER
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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR’S PARENTS AND THE NORMAN CASTLE
ABOVE: William the Conqueror and Odo, bishop of Bayeux, from the ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ Benoît de Sainte-Maure was a 12th-century French poet, who, amongst other things, …
