899 |
King
Alfred settles Anglo-Saxin Gronovic on his youngest daughter Elstrudis
on her marriage to Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. On his death
in 918 she gifts the manor to the Abbey of Ghent who receive its
rents until Henry V disallows possessions of foreign monasteries
in 1414. |
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1011
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Aelfheah,
Archbishop of Canterbury, held captive for ransom by Danes at Greenwich,
Aelfheah refused to let the amassed sums be paid in his name. Danes
in a drunken fury pelted him to death with the bones from a feast.
St Alphege, as he became known, lent his name to Greenwich’s
parish church, the present building being by Sir Christopher Wren’s
protégé Nicholas Hawksmoor. |
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1381
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Watt
Tyler raises the standard of the Peasants Revolt on Blackheath. |
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1417
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Humphrey,
Duke of Gloucester, brother of the late Henry V acquired the Manor
of Greenwich, so commencing the longstanding association of Greenwich
and royalty that was to result in Greenwich being chosen as the
location of the Prime Meridian. Monarchs whose lives were intimately
tied up with Greenwich included Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII,
Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II. |
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Duke
Humphrey builds Bella Court and starts the country’s finest
non-ecclesiastical library, which will form the foundation of Oxford’s
Bodlean Library. Humphrey is murdered in 1447 and Henry VI’s
wife Margaret of Anjou appropriates Bella Court and renames it
Plesaunce. Henry VII then rebuilds it and renames it Palace of
Placentia (pleasant place). |
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