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GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 55ff (3.1.55-57) (1597)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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For those of you who love historical medieval fiction with a dark touch:
My friend Mette Holm has released a new book in her Mowbray Chronicles series today (Book 4).
I've read some of her series (not really my genre) and I will say the stories are quite detailed and fascinating, if a little too dark for my liking. But life was hard back then, even for a nobleman, full of intrigue, secrets and betrayal.
Find her book here:
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#ConstanceOfYork was pregnant with her 3rd child when her husband was beheaded by a Bristol mob after participating in the #EpiphanyRising of 1400; she later bore an illegitimate daughter to the Earl of Kent. After she declared the teenage Edmund Mortimer to be the true king & arranged for the Mortimer boys to be abducted from #WindsorCastle, her cousin #HenryIV confiscated her assets & confined her to #KenilworthCastle - but only temporarily. 🧵 9/
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An arranged marriage to a younger boy was unconsummated when #JohnOfGaunt arranged a hasty annulment so that his 2nd daughter #ElizabethOfLancaster - already pregnant? - could marry the hot-tempered warrior #JohnHolland. Between overseas trips & crises they equipped #Dartington with a #jousting arena & magnificent Great Hall. Within months of his beheading she married another skilled jouster, briefly imprisoned by her brother #HenryIV... 🧵 5/
#histodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII