Abbot of Fleury |
(b. 945, d. 1004)
French abbot and historian.
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Abraham Campion |
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Abraham Cartwright |
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Abraham Cowley |
Poet.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Abraham Gramer |
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Abraham Hogenberg |
(b. 1578, d. 1653)
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Wikipedia |
Abraham Orelius |
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Abram Booth |
(b. 1606, d. 1636)
Dutch delegate and diarist.
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Acliuillus |
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Adam Atwood |
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Adam Bamme |
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MASL |
Adam Bery |
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Adam Brabazon |
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MASL |
Adam Breakspeare |
(d. 1400)
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Adam Bruning |
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MASL |
Adam de Bassing |
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MASL |
Adam de Bury |
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MASL |
Adam de Hallingberi |
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MASL |
Adam de Howton |
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Adam de Pulteney |
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Adam de Salisbury |
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MASL |
Adam de Stratton |
Administrator and moneylender. Paid a large sum to purchase liberty from the Tower of London including a king’s crown said to belong to John I.
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Adam de Witebi |
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MASL |
Adam Fraunceys |
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MASL ODNB |
Adam Gill |
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Adam Goodman |
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Adam Helingbury |
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Adam Hone |
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Adam Islip |
Printer.
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British Museum |
Adam Karlill |
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MASL |
Adam le Blund de Foleham |
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MASL |
Adam Lucas |
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MASL |
Adam Lutkin |
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MASL |
Adam Murimuth |
(b. between 1274 and 1275, d. 1347)
Chronicler.
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Wikipedia |
Adam of Bentley |
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MASL |
Adam of Mirimuth |
(b. between 1274 and 1275, d. 1347)
Historian and diplomat.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Adam Stable |
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MASL |
Adam the Smith |
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Adam Wimondham |
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MASL |
Ade de Buke |
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Adeline Neville |
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Adeliza of Louvain |
(b. 1103, d. 1151)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Adhered |
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Adrian Arten |
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Adrian Stokes |
(b. 1519, d. 1586)
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Wikipedia |
Ælfhun |
(d. between 1015 and 1018)
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Wikipedia |
Aelfsie |
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Aelfstan |
(d. between 995 and 996)
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Wikipedia |
Ælfweard of London |
(d. 1044)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Ælfwine of Elmham |
(d. between 1023? and 1038?)
Bishop of Elmham 1019-1030.
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Wikipedia |
Aelius Herodianus |
Greek Grammarian of Alexandria.
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EB Wikipedia |
Aesop |
Greek fabulist and storyteller.
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Wikipedia |
Æthelberht of Kent |
King of Kent.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Aethelnoth |
(d. between 816 and 824)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Æthelred |
(d. 911)
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EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Æthelred II |
(b. between 966 and 968, d. 23 April 1016)
King of the English 978-1013 and 1014-1016.
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EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Æthelstan |
(b. between 893 and 894, d. 939)
King of the Anglo-Saxons 924-927. King of the English 927-939.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Aethelweard of London |
(d. between 909 and 926)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Æthelwold of Winchester |
(b. between 904 and 909, d. 984)
Bishop of Winchester 963-984.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Agaster Roper |
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Agatha Aetheling |
(d. 1070)
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Wikipedia |
Agesilaus II |
King of Sparta 398-360 BC.
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Wikipedia |
Agnes Arnold (née Warmford) |
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Agnes Barton |
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Agnes Becket |
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A History of the County of
London |
Agnes Bond |
(d. 4 February 1552)
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Agnes Cachemaide |
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Agnes Coxe |
(d. 13 April 1472)
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Agnes Darr |
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Agnes Dauntsey |
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Agnes Dennis |
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Agnes Dixie (née Draper) |
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Agnes fitz-Theobald |
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Agnes fitz-William |
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Agnes Galdset |
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Agnes Gascoigne |
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Agnes Henslowe |
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Agnes Lewen |
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Agnes Milborne |
(d. 1500)
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Agnes Niter |
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Agnes Romany Ollarie |
(d. 1408)
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Agnes Saint-John |
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Agnes Streete |
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Agnes Young |
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Ailwarde |
Owner of a house that caught fire in 1135.
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Alan Brett |
(d. 1425)
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Alan de la Zouche |
(d. 1270)
Administrator and soldier. Warden of London
1267-1268 and possibly 1266-1267.
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MASL ODNB Wikipedia |
Alan Everard |
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MASL |
Alan Rufus |
(d. 1093)
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ODNB |
Albert I of Bavaria |
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Wikipedia |
Alcia Barwis |
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Aleksei Ziuzin |
Russian ambassador.
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Alessandro Magno |
Venetian writer. Documented his visit to London in
1562.
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Alexander Andrew |
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Alexander Billesdon |
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Alexander Bonner |
Conservator.
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Alexander Brome |
(b. 1620, d. 30 June 1666)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Alexander Cheyney |
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Alexander Cooke |
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Wikipedia |
Alexander Dikes |
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Alexander Every |
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Alexander Hay |
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Alexander Heyband |
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Alexander II of Scotland |
(b. 24 August 1198, d. 6 July 1249)
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Wikipedia |
Alexander King |
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Alexander Kippinge |
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Alexander Neckam |
(b. 1157, d. 1217)
Scholar, teacher, and theologian.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Alexander Neville |
(b. 1544, d. 1614)
Author and scholar.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Alexander Polyhistor |
Greek writer. Raised in Rome.
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EB Wikipedia |
Alexander Pope |
(b. 1688, d. 1744)
Poet.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Alexander Prescot |
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MASL |
Alexander Purpoint |
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Alexander Serle |
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Alexander the Great |
King of Macedon 336–323 BC.
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Wikipedia |
Alfred Aetheling |
(b. 1005, d. 1036)
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Wikipedia |
Alfred of Beverly (Alredus) |
(fl. 1143)
Chronicler and priest.
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Wikipedia |
Alfred the Great |
(b. between 848 and 849, d. 899)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Algare Secusme |
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Wikipedia |
Alice Ashfed |
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Alice Atcourt |
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Alice Atte-Bow |
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Alice Babham |
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Alice Balstred |
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Alice Barnard |
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Alice Bartlet |
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Alice Bateman |
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Alice Bayly |
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Alice Beecher (née Heron) |
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Alice Blundell |
(d. 21 November 1574)
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Alice Blunt (née Kebyll) |
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Alice Brome |
(d. 1433)
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Alice Byng (née Burton) |
(d. 21 May 1616)
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Alice Carne |
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Alice Carter |
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Alice Clarell |
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Alice Coleman (née Gainsford) |
(d. 4 March 1581)
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Alice Collet |
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Alice Courtney |
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Alice Daniel |
(d. 13 October 1481)
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Alice de Hakeneie |
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Alice de Warenne |
(b. 1287, d. 1338)
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Wikipedia |
Alice Dent |
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Alice Dogget |
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Alice Elkyn (née Wilkes) |
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Alice Eyre |
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Alice Fletcher |
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Alice Foster |
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Alice Glover |
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Alice Haines |
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Alice Hanbury |
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Alice Heyward |
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Alice Hulton (née Howton) |
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Alice Hungerford |
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Alice Lambe |
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Alice Ludlow |
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Alice Mackeley |
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Alice Neville |
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Alice Poulsted |
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Alice Pyat (née Birtles) |
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Alice Rishby |
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Alice Rutt |
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Alice Shepley |
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Alice Spencer (née Bromefield) |
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Alice Vigures (née Kendrick) |
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Alice Walcot (née Halsy) |
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Alice Whittington (née fitz-Warren) |
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Alice Winslow |
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Alice Wolfe |
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Alicia Beaumond |
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Alicia Beaumond |
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Alicia Slaney |
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Alienar Ingham |
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Alison Dalusse |
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Alison Heriot |
(d. 16 April 1612)
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Allectus |
(d. 296)
Roman administrator. Emperor of Britannia 293-296. Killed in one of
London’s fields in 296.
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EB Wikipedia |
Allen Barker |
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Allen le Sopar |
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Allen Thredder |
(d. 1381)
Captain of the rebels during the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381.
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Allice Percival |
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Almundus |
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Alnothus |
Bishop of Dorchester 970–977.
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Wikipedia |
Alphonso |
(b. 1273, d. 1284)
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Wikipedia |
Althoneus |
Priest.
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Aluredus Copeley |
(d. 5 February 1598)
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Alwine |
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Alwinus |
(fl. 1010)
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Alwinus Child |
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Wikipedia |
Alwyne |
Bishop of Helmeham.
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Amadeus IV of Savoy |
(b. 1197, d. 24 June 1253)
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Wikipedia |
Amadeus V of Savoy |
(b. 4 September 1249, d. 16 October 1323)
Fifth Count of Savoy.
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Wikipedia |
Ambrose Charcam |
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Ambrose Cresacre |
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Ambrose Smith |
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Amir Timur |
(b. 1336, d. 1405)
Founder of the Timurid Empire. Famously represented in Christopher
Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great.
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Wikipedia |
Ammianus Marcellinus |
Roman soldier and historian. Author of the Res Gestae.
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Wikipedia |
Amy Eyre |
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Amy Gomersall (née Edlyn) |
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Andrew Aubrey |
(d. 1356)
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MASL ODNB Wikipedia |
Andrew Buchevite |
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Andrew Bukerel |
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MASL |
Andrew Burel |
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Andrew Evenger |
(d. 1556)
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Andrew Evenger |
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Andrew Fraunces |
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Andrew Fuller |
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Andrew Fursland |
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Andrew Geneway |
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Andrew Horn |
(b. 1275, d. 1328)
Administrator and chronicler.
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ODNB |
Andrew Kendricke |
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Andrew Michael |
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Andrew Nevelun |
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MASL |
Andrew Partridge |
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Andrew Pikeman |
(d. 1391)
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Andrew Pykeman |
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MASL |
Andrew Seywell |
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Andrew White |
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Andrew White |
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Andrew Wise |
Publisher.
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Angel Dune |
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Angell Feldynge |
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Anicius |
Archdeacon of Surrey. Had a hospital move onto his lands in 1228 by the consent of Peter des
Roches.
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Anketin de Betevile |
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MASL |
Anketinus de Arden |
Alderman.
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Anna Gips |
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Anna Trapnel |
(fl. 1642-60)
Alleged prophet.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Andrews |
(d. 12 June 1606)
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Anne Askew |
(b. 1521, d. 1546)
Writer and Protestant martyr.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Audley |
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Anne Bacon |
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Anne Bartelet |
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Anne Bayning |
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Anne Beaumont |
(d. 7 September 1581)
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Anne Beckingham |
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Anne Blount |
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Anne Blunt |
(d. 1504)
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Anne Boleyn |
(b. 1500, d. 1536)
Queen consort of England
1533-1536.
Second wife of Henry VIII. Executed on grounds of treason.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Boughton |
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Anne Bowdler |
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Anne Bowes (née Barrett) |
(d. 1553)
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Wikipedia |
Anne Branche |
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Anne Burley |
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Anne Burton |
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Anne Carew |
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Anne Cecil |
(b. 5 December 1556, d. 5 June 1588)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Chamberlain |
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Anne Clarke |
Benefactor of the poor.
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Anne Coldock |
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Anne Colepepper (née Slaney) |
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Anne Cordel (née Blundell) |
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Anne Crosby |
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Anne Dancer |
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Anne Davison |
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Anne Digges (née St. Leger) |
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Anne Dimock |
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Anne Dockwray |
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Anne Dudley (née Seymour) |
(b. 1538, d. 1588)
|
Wikipedia |
Anne Farrant (née Bower) |
(d. 1582)
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Anne Ferrar |
(d. 12 July 1613)
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Anne Field |
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Anne Fiennes (née Sackville) |
(d. 10 May 1595)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Frithwith |
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Anne Goodwine |
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Anne Goodwine (née Peacocke) |
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Anne Gough (née Par) |
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Anne Griffin |
Printer.
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BBTI |
Anne Gunter |
(d. 1582)
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Anne Harby (née Saltonstall) |
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Anne Hart (née Manwood) |
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Anne Heneage (née Poyntz) |
(d. 1593)
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Anne Henslowe |
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Anne Herbert (née Parr) |
(b. 1515, d. 1552)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Heyward |
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Anne Higham (née Stoneley) |
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Anne Hobdin |
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Anne Layton |
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Anne Leigh |
(d. 1618)
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Anne Lyon (née Murray) |
(b. 1579, d. 27 February 1618)
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Wikipedia |
Anne Methwold |
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Anne Middleton |
(b. 1538, d. 1602)
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Anne Mording |
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Anne Morgan |
(b. 1529, d. 1607)
|
Wikipedia |
Anne Neville |
(b. 1456, d. 1485)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Newman |
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Anne Newman |
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Anne Newman (née Cullum) |
Wife of Gaius Newman. Daughter of Nicholas Cullum. Mother of Gabriel Newman, Gaius Newman, Robert Newman, Nicholas Newman, Francis Newman, Thomas Newman, Hugh Newman, Elizabeth Newman, Mary Newman, Anne Newman, Sarah Newman, and Judith Newman.
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Anne Nockes |
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Anne of Bohemia |
(b. 1366, d. 1394)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne of Burgundy |
(d. 1433)
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Anne of Cleves |
(b. 1515, d. 1557)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne of Denmark |
(b. 12 December 1574, d. 2 March 1619)
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MoEML ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne of Gloucester |
(b. in or before 1383, d. 1438)
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Wikipedia |
Anne of Lodbury |
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Anne Oliff |
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Anne Parnell (née Baxter) |
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Anne Paston |
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Anne Roberts (née Glover) |
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Anne Seymour (née Stanhope) |
(b. 1510, d. 1587)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Shirley |
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Anne Smith |
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Anne Smith |
Possessee. Received care in the Earl of Lincoln’s home on Cannon Row.
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Anne Smith (née Mullert) |
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Anne Talbot (née Herbert) |
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Anne Wase (née Prettyman) |
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Anne Watkins |
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Anne Wells |
(b. 1491, d. 1499)
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anne Westwick |
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Anne Wood |
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Anselme Becket |
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Anthonis van den Wijngaerde |
(b. 1525, d. 1571)
Artist known for his 1543 panorama of London.
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Anthony Abdy |
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MASL |
Anthony Bonvice |
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Anthony Browne |
(b. 1528, d. 1592)
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Wikipedia ODNB BHO Google
Books |
Anthony Cage |
(d. 24 June 1583)
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Anthony Duffield |
Benefactor of the poor.
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Anthony Gamage |
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MASL |
Anthony Hall |
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Anthony Hungerford |
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Anthony Kingston |
(b. 1508, d. 1556)
Royal Officer.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Anthony Mills |
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Anthony Munday |
(bap. 1560, d. 1633)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Anthony Palmer |
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Anthony Ratclyffe |
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MASL |
Anthony Ruyskaert |
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Anthony Shirley |
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Anthony Sondes |
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Anthony Sonds |
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Anthony van Dyck |
Flemish painter.
|
Wikipedia |
Anthony Wells |
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Anthony Wolhouse |
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Anthony Wood |
Antiquary.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Anthony Woodville |
(b. 1440, d. 1483)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Anthony Wotton |
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Antoninus of Florence |
(b. 1389, d. 1459)
Writer, archbishop and saint. Canonized in 1523.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Antoninus Pius |
Emperor of the Roman Empire 138-161.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Antonio da Correggio |
Italian painter.
|
Wikipedia |
Arcadius |
(b. between 377 and 378, d. 1 May 408)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Archibald Douglas |
(b. 1489, d. 1557)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Arendt van Buchell |
|
EB |
Arion Williams |
|
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Aristotle |
(b. 384 BCE, d. 322 BCE)
Greek philosopher.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Arnold de Tolinea |
|
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Arnold Hatfield |
|
ROLLCO |
Arnold le Reus |
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Arnold Macknam |
|
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Arnold Phillip |
|
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Arsaces I of Parthia |
King of the Arsacid dynasty 247–217 BC.
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Arthur Aynscombe |
|
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Arthur Golding |
(b. between 1535 and 1536, d. in or before 13 May 1606)
Translator.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Arthur Medlycote |
(d. 27 July 1605)
|
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Arthur Plantagenet |
(d. 1542)
First Viscount Lisle. Illegitmate son of Edward
IV. Appointed Lord Deputy of Calais under Henry VIII.
|
Wikipedia |
Arthur Plantagenet |
|
MASL |
Arthur Troffote |
|
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Arthur Tudor |
(b. 1486, d. 1502)
|
Wikipedia |
Arthur Wilson |
(bap. 14 December 1595, d. between 1 October 1652 and 15 October 1652)
Historian, playwright, and poet.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Asser |
(d. 909)
Bishop of Sherborne 895-909. Author of Life of King
Alfred.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Athelaise de Mandeville |
|
Westminster Abbey |
Athelgoda |
(d. 615)
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Atheline Raison |
|
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Aubrey de Vere |
(d. 1141)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Aubrey de Vere |
(d. 1194)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Audrey Gresham (née Lynne) |
(d. 28 December 1522)
|
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Augustine Cope |
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Augustine Hynde |
(fl. 1550-51)
|
MASL |
Augustine Matthews |
(fl. between 1608? and 1653?)
Printer.
|
BBTI BBTI Wikipedia |
Augustine of Hippo |
|
Wikipedia |
Augustine Phillips |
(d. 1605)
|
ODNB
Wikipedia
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Augustine Ryther |
(d. 1593)
Cartographer, engraver, and translator.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Augustus Caesar |
Emperor of the Roman Empire 27 BCE–14 CE.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Aulus Gellius |
Latin author and grammarian.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Aunc Skinner |
|
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Austin Reinolds |
|
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Aveline de Forz |
(b. 1259, d. 1274)
|
Wikipedia |
Avery Randolph |
|
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Avice Gibson |
|
BHO |
Avice Middleton |
|
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Aylmer of Risden |
|
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Aymer de Valence |
(d. 1324)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Aymon of Savoy |
(b. 15 December 1210, d. 22 June 1343)
|
Wikipedia |
Baldwin |
|
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Baldwin I of Jerusalem |
(b. 1058, d. 1118)
Leader of the First Crusade.
|
Wikipedia |
Barbara Herdson |
|
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Barbara Hungerford (née Writhesley) |
|
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Barbara Thornix |
(d. 11 April 1613)
|
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Barbara Writhesley |
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Barnard Randolph |
(d. 7 August 1583)
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Barne Roberts |
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Barney Reymer |
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Baron Clarke |
|
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Bartholomew Barnes |
(d. 1 October 1606)
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Bartholomew Barnes |
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Bartholomew Bavin |
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Bartholomew Billington |
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Bartholomew Burwash |
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Bartholomew Caster |
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Bartholomew de Almain |
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Bartholomew de Frestlyng |
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MASL |
Bartholomew de la Vauch |
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Bartholomew Deumars |
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MASL |
Bartholomew Linsled |
|
BHO |
Bartholomew of the Castle |
|
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Bartholomew Rede |
(fl. 1497-1503)
|
MASL |
Bartholomew Rutt |
|
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Bartholomew Seman |
Goldbeater. Master of the Kingʼs mints in London,
Calais, and York. Monument at St. John Zachary. See related
ODNB entry for Moneyers.
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Bartram of Hamburg |
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Bartrand Descure (née Austrie) |
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Bastard de Scales |
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Beatrice of Provence |
(b. 1229, d. 23 September 1267)
|
Wikipedia |
Beatrice of Savoy |
(b. 1205, d. 4 January 1267)
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Wikipedia |
Beatrix Barners (née Cotton) |
(d. 5 November 1616)
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Beatrix Brown |
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Bede |
(b. between 672 and 673, d. 735)
Monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth. Known as the Father of
English History. Author of Ecclesiastical History of the
English People.
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EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Ben Jonson |
(b. 1572, d. 1637)
Poet and playwright.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Benedick Augustine |
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Benedict Barnham |
(bap. 1559, d. 1598)
|
MASL ODNB Wikipedia |
Benedict Botewrite |
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Benedict de Folesham |
|
MASL |
Benedict of Nursia |
Patron saint of Europe and students.
|
Wikipedia |
Benedict Reding |
|
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Benedict Senturer |
|
MASL |
Benedict Shorne |
|
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Benjamin Cole |
(b. 1697, d. 1783)
Printmaker.
|
British Museum |
Benjamin Fisher |
Printer.
|
BBTI |
Benjamin Nicholson |
|
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Bennet Abbot of Wirall |
|
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Bennet Webb (née Draper) |
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Bennett Gerard |
(d. 1403)
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Benomye Mittun |
|
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Bernabò Visconti |
(b. 1323, d. 1385)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Bernard Alsop |
Printer.
|
BBTI |
Bernard Cooper |
|
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Bernard of Clairvaux |
Abbot and leader in the formation of the Cistercian order.
|
Wikipedia |
Bernard Williamson |
Benefactor of the poor.
|
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Berosus |
(fl. between 300 BCE and 201 BCE)
Writer, historian, and astronomer.
|
Wikipedia |
Berseba Taylor (née Hall) |
|
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Betty Martin (née Lane) |
|
Pepy’s
Diary Project |
Bevis Bond |
|
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Bevis Lea |
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Blackstanus |
|
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Blanch Waterton |
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Blanche |
|
Wikipedia |
Blanche of Lancaster |
(b. 25 March 1342, d. in or before 12 September 1368)
|
Wikipedia |
Blase White |
|
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Boniface IX |
(d. 1404)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Boniface of Savoy |
(b. 1217, d. 18 July 1270)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Boniface Tatam |
|
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Boris Godunov |
Tsar of Russia 1598-1605.
|
Wikipedia |
Boudica |
(d. 60)
Queen of the British Celtic Icen. Led her people in revolt against Roman
governance.
|
ODNB EB Wikipedia |
Brian Briset |
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Brian de Lisle |
(d. 1234)
Soldier.
|
Wikipedia |
Bridget Billingsley (née Draper) |
|
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Bridget Digges |
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Brihthelm |
(d. between 957 and 959)
|
Wikipedia |
Britannicus |
(b. 41, d. 45)
|
Wikipedia |
Burchard of Würzburg |
(d. 753)
Bishop of Würzburg 741–754. Secretary of Offa.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Burgred of Mercia |
King of Mercia 852-874.
|
Wikipedia |
Cadar |
|
Wikipedia |
Cadwaladr |
(fl. 655?-82?)
King of Gwynedd, Wales 655-682.
|
Wikipedia |
Caleb Willis |
Lecturer of rhetoric.
|
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Canute I |
(d. 12 November 1035)
King of England
1016–1035.
King of Denmark 1019–1035. King of Norway 1028–1035.
|
EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Captain Pod |
Known exhibitor of puppet shows. Alluded to in John
Day and Henry Chettle’s The Blind
Beggar of Bethnal Green.
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Carvilius |
|
Wikipedia |
Casimir III the Great |
(b. 1310, d. 1370)
King of Poland 1333-1370. King of Ruthenia 1340-1370.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Cassivellaunus |
|
ODNB OR Wikipedia |
Castell Camps |
(d. 1611)
Esquire.
|
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Catherine Howard |
Queen consort of England
1540-1541.
Fifth wife of Henry VIII. Executed on grounds of treason.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Catherine of Aragon |
(b. 16 December 1485, d. 7 January 1536)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Catherine of Braganza |
(b. 25 November 1638, d. 31 December 1705)
Queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1662-1685.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Catherine of Valois |
(b. 27 October 1401, d. 3 January 1437)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Catherine Parr |
(b. 1512, d. 5 September 1598)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cato the Elder |
(b. 234 BCE, d. 149 BCE)
Roman senator and historian. First person to write history in Latin. Great-grandfather
of
Cato the Younger.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Cato the Younger |
(b. 95 BCE, d. 46 BCE)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Cecilie Franke |
|
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Cecily Bowes (née Eliott) |
|
Wikipedia |
Cecily Neville |
(b. 1425, d. 1450)
Duchess of Warwick.
|
Wikipedia |
Cedd |
(b. 620, d. 26 November 664)
Bishop of the East Saxons 654-664.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cenwalh of Wessex |
(d. 672)
King of Wessex 642–645 and 648–672.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Ceolberht |
(d. between 845 and 869)
|
Wikipedia |
Charles Blount |
|
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Charles Blout |
(b. 1516, d. 1544)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles Booth |
(d. 1535)
Bishop of Hereford 1516–1535.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles Brandon |
(b. 1484, d. 1545)
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Wikipedia ODNB EB |
Charles Darcy |
|
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Charles Howard |
(b. 1536, d. 14 December 1624)
Second Baron Howard of Effingham and First Earl of Nottingham. Commander of the English
fleet in opposition to the Spanish Armada.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles I |
(b. 1600, d. 1649)
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1625-1649.
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ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles I of Anjou |
(b. 1226, d. 7 January 1285)
King of Sicily 1266–1285. Proclaimed King of Albania 1272–1285. Purchased a claim to the Kingdom of
Jerusalem in 1277.
|
Wikipedia |
Charles II |
(b. 1630, d. 1685)
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1660-1665.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles II of Navarre |
(b. 1332, d. 1387)
King of Navarre 1349-1387.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Charles IV of Bohemia |
(b. 14 May 1316, d. 29 November 1378)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Charles Somerset |
(b. 1640, d. 1526)
First earl of Worcester 1514-1526.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Charles Stuart |
(b. 1555, d. 1576)
|
Wikipedia |
Charles V |
(b. 1500, d. 1558)
Holy Roman Emperor 1519-1556. King of Germany 1519-1556. King of Italy 1530-1556. King of Spain 1516-1556.
|
OR Wikipedia |
Charles VI of France |
(b. 3 December 1368, d. 21 October 1422)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Charles VII of France |
(b. 22 February 1403, d. 22 July 1461)
King of France 1422-1461.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Charles VIII of France |
(b. 30 June 1470, d. 7 April 1498)
King of France 1483-1498.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Christian IV of Denmark |
(b. 12 April 1577, d. 28 February 1648)
|
EB Wikipedia |
Christian Robinson (née Anderson) |
(d. 24 April 1592)
|
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Christian Towerson |
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Christine Barantyn |
(b. in or before 1415, d. 1427)
|
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Christopher Arnold |
(b. 1627, d. 1686)
Professor of history, rhetoric, and poetry at the University of Altdorf.
|
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Christopher Ayer |
|
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Christopher Bales |
Catholic priest and martyr.
|
Wikipedia
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Christopher Banaster |
|
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Christopher Barker |
Printer.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Christopher Beeston |
(b. between 1579 and 1580, d. 1638)
Actor and theatre entrepreneur. Founder of the Cockpit
Theatre.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Christopher Bumsted |
|
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Christopher Carleill |
(b. 1551, d. 1593)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Christopher Columbus |
Italian explorer.
|
Wikipedia |
Christopher Croker |
|
Wikipedia |
Christopher Eliot |
(fl. 1491-1505)
|
BHO |
Christopher Feliocke |
|
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Christopher Hawes |
|
MASL |
Christopher Hobbs |
|
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Christopher Holt |
|
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Christopher Jennie |
Sergeant at Arms. Appointed in 1531.
|
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Christopher Litcot |
|
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Christopher Marlowe |
(bap. 1564, d. 1593)
Playwright and poet.
|
EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Christopher Pack |
|
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Christopher Rawson |
(d. 2 August 1518)
|
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Christopher Ruddy |
Yeoman.
|
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Christopher Southaws |
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Christopher Tolderney |
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Christopher Tolderney |
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Christopher Turner |
|
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Christopher Warter |
|
MASL |
Christopher Wase |
|
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Christopher Web |
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Christopher Woodroffe |
|
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Christopher Wormeall |
|
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Christopher Wren |
(b. 1632, d. 1723)
Architect, mathematician, and astronomer.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cicely Heath |
|
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Cicero |
(b. 106 BCE, d. 43 BCE)
Roman philosopher, politician, and lawyer.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Cingetorix |
|
Wikipedia |
Ciran |
|
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Claes Jansz. Visscher |
(b. 1587, d. 19 June 1652)
Cartographer. Drew a map of London in 1616.
|
Wikipedia |
Claude de Jonghe |
(b. 1605, d. 1663)
Dutch painter.
|
Wikipedia |
Claudian |
Roman poet.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Claudius |
(b. 10 BCE, d. 13 October 54)
Emperor of the Roman Empire 41-54. Father of Brtiannicus.
|
EB OR Wikipedia |
Claudius Ptolemy |
(b. 100, d. 170)
Greco-Egyptian writer, mathematician, astronomer, and poet from Alexandria.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Clemens Langley (née Whitton) |
|
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Clement de Jonghe |
(b. 1624, d. 1677)
Dutch printer and map dealer.
|
BM |
Clement I |
Pope 88-97 or 92-101.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Clement Scudamore |
|
MASL |
Cleostratus |
Greek astronomer.
|
Wikipedia |
Coenwalh |
(d. between 793 and 796)
|
Wikipedia |
Commius |
(fl. between 57 BCE and 50 BCE)
King of the Atrebates. Ally to Julius Caesar until 54 BC, when he took part in the
great revolt of the Gauls.
|
EB ODNB Wikipedia |
Commodus |
(b. 161, d. 192)
|
Wikipedia |
Conan |
|
Wikipedia |
Conrad Gessner |
(b. 1516, d. 1565)
Swiss naturalist and zoologist. Author of the five-volume Historiae
animalium, now considered a landmark text of modern zoology.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Conrad Gessner |
Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.
|
Wikipedia |
Constance Alleyn (née Donne) |
|
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Constance Knolles |
|
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Constance of Castile |
(b. 1354, d. in or before 24 March 1394)
|
Wikipedia |
Constance Taylor (née Wooddeson) |
|
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Constantine fitz-Aelulfe |
Sheriff of London
1197-1198.
Hanged in 1222.
|
MASL |
Constantine fitz-Alulf |
|
MASL |
Constantine I |
(d. 27 May 337)
Emperor of the Western Empire 312-324. Emperor of the Roman Empire 324–337. First
Roman emperor to profess Christianity.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Constantius Bennet |
|
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Constus |
|
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Cornelis Danckerts I |
(b. 1603, d. 1656)
Dutch engraver and printer.
|
British Museum |
Cornelius Fish |
Chamberlain of London
1603-1626.
|
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Cornelius Godfrey |
Merchant.
|
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Cornelius Van Dun |
|
Westminster Abbey |
Cunobeline |
(d. 40)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cuthbert |
(b. 635, d. 687)
Bishop of Lindisfarne 685–687.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cuthbert Burbage |
(b. between 1564 and 1565, d. 1636)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cuthbert Tunstall |
(b. 1474, d. 1559)
Bishop of London
1522-1530.
Bishop of Durham 1530–1552 and 1553-1558. Lord Privy Seal 1523–1530.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Cyriacus Kale |
|
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Cyrus the Great |
King of Persia 559–530 BC. King of Media 550–530 BC. King of Lydia 547–530 BC. King of Babylon 539–530 BC.
|
Wikipedia |
Dabridge Court |
|
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Damasus I |
(b. 305, d. 384)
Pope 366-384.
|
Wikipedia |
Dame Agnes Bardolf |
(d. 1403)
|
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Dame Agnes Clifford |
|
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Dame Agnes Danvars |
|
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Dame Agnes Forster |
(d. 1484)
|
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Dame Alice Isham |
|
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Dame Alice More (née Harpur) |
|
Wikipedia |
Dame Alice Pierce |
|
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Dame Alice Ramsey (née Lea) |
|
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Dame Alice Steward |
|
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Dame Alice Turke |
|
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Dame Anne Awnsham |
|
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Dame Anne Lodge |
|
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Dame Anne Pakington |
(fl. 1530-63)
|
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Dame Anne Radcliffe |
|
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Dame Barbara Stone |
|
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Dame Beatrix Narbrough |
|
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Dame Bridget Trussel |
|
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Dame Bridgit |
|
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Dame Christian Morris |
|
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Dame Christian Warren |
|
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Dame Daniel |
|
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Dame Dorothy Edmonds (née Litcot) |
|
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Dame Eleanor Mortimer |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Arundell |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Berkeley |
(b. 1386, d. 1422)
|
ODNB |
Dame Elizabeth Bowes |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Huberthorn |
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Dame Elizabeth Hynde |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Langton |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Martyn |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Mellington (née Botelar) |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Narborough |
|
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Dame Elizabeth Salvage |
(fl. 1539)
|
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Dame Elizabeth Sandys (née Windsor) |
(d. 29 December 1559)
|
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Dame Elizabeth Yarford |
|
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Dame Grisilde Tewke |
|
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Dame Ide Devereux (née de Ferrers) |
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Dame Ide West |
|
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Dame Isabel Heningham |
|
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Dame Isabell Edward |
|
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Dame Isabell Spencer |
|
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Dame Isabella |
(b. 1195, d. 1253)
|
Wikipedia |
Dame Jahu Strange |
|
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Dame Jane Sayne |
|
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Dame Jane Smith |
|
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Dame Joan Astley |
(fl. 1445-46)
|
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Dame Joan Beaufort |
(b. 1379, d. 1440)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dame Joan Daubeney |
|
ODNB |
Dame Joan de Beauchamp |
(b. 1396, d. 1430)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dame Joan Norris |
|
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Dame Joan Peach |
|
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Dame Joan Ratcliffe |
|
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Dame Joan Warren |
|
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Dame Joan Whittington |
|
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Dame Joane Amcotts |
|
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Dame Joane Borough |
|
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Dame Joane de Berkeley |
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Dame Joane de Greystoke |
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Dame Joanne Milborne |
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Dame Joanne Tesle |
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Dame Joanne Zouch |
|
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Dame Johan Carne |
|
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Dame Johan Saye |
|
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Dame Julian Lacy |
|
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Dame Katharine |
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Dame Katharine Gresham |
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Dame Katharine Hawkins |
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Dame Katherine Bailey |
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Dame Katherine Stoke |
|
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Dame Katherine Terrell |
|
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Dame Katherine Vaux |
|
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Dame Lucy Knowles |
|
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Dame Margaret Barkely (née Chevie) |
|
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Dame Margaret Blancke |
|
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Dame Margaret Elrington |
|
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Dame Margaret Gristles |
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Dame Margaret Hawkins |
|
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Dame Margaret Jenyns |
|
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Dame Margaret Lenthaine |
|
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Dame Margaret Milborne |
|
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Dame Margaret of Glamorgan |
|
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Dame Margaret Osborne |
|
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Dame Margaret Pope |
|
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Dame Margaret Rade |
(d. 1510)
|
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Dame Margaret West |
|
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Dame Margery Twyford |
(d. in or after 1390)
|
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Dame Mary Gresham |
|
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Dame Mary Ramsey (née Dale) |
|
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Dame Mary S. Maure |
|
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Dame Mary Senelare |
|
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Dame Maud Peach |
|
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Dame Molde fitz-Warren |
|
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Dame Sybill Thornehurst |
|
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Dame Thomason |
|
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Daniel Balgay |
(d. 20 December 1608)
|
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Daniel Defoe |
Writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Daniel Harby |
|
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Daniel Rawlinson |
(d. 11 July 1679)
|
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Daniël Mijtens the Elder |
(b. 1590, d. 1647)
Dutch portrait painter and artist.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Darby Morgan |
Landowner.
|
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Darius III of Persia |
King of the Achaemenid Empire 336-330 BC.
|
Wikipedia |
David ap Williams |
Welsh bard.
|
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David Dee |
|
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David Die |
Welsh bard.
|
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David II of Scotland |
King of Scotland 1329-1371.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
David Jones |
|
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David Lindsay |
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
David Smith |
(d. 10 August 1587)
|
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David Woodroffe |
|
MASL |
Davie Vaughan |
|
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Deborah Willet |
Maid of Samuel Pepys. Engaged in an affair with Samuel Pepys, resulting in her dismissal. See related ODNB entry for Servants of Samuel Pepys.
|
Wikipedia |
Decimus Laberius |
Roman knight and writer of mimes.
|
Wikipedia |
Dedwin |
|
Wikipedia |
Deorwulf |
|
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Derich Born |
(b. 1510, d. 1549)
|
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Derick Berck |
|
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Desiderius Erasmus |
(b. 1467, d. 1536)
Humanist scholar.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dicaearchus |
Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, and author. Student of
Aristotle.
|
Wikipedia |
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña |
(b. 1 November 1567, d. 2 October 1626)
Conde de Gondomar and Spanish ambassador.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dio Cassius |
(b. 150, d. 235)
Roman statesman and historian.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Diocletian |
Emperor of the Roman Empire 284-305.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Dirk Tybis |
|
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Doll Powell (née Lane) |
|
Pepy’s
Diary Project |
Doll Stodie |
|
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Domitian |
(b. 24 October 51, d. 18 September 96)
Emperor of the Roman Empire 81-96.
|
EB Wikipedia |
Donald Lupton |
(d. 1676)
Clergyman and writer.
|
ODNB |
Donnina Hawkwood (née Visconti) |
|
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Dorothie Dantrey (née Stoneley) |
|
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Dorothie Franke |
|
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Dorothie Honywood (née Crooke) |
|
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Dorothie Long (née Clarke) |
(d. 1618)
|
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Dorothie Manwood (née Theobald) |
(d. 14 September 1575)
|
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Dorothy Halye of Ipswitch |
(d. 20 September 1601)
|
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Dorothy Simons |
|
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Dorothy Tamworth |
|
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Dorothy Weld |
|
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Dorothy Weld (née Greswolde) |
|
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Dr. Alexander Burnett |
(d. 25 August 1665)
|
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Dr. Allen |
Doctor. Donated funds to the steeple of St. Mary Le Bow
that was finished in 1512.
|
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Dr. Ashbold |
Doctor and Parson.
|
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Dr. Barnes |
Doctor. Master of the Rolls.
|
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Dr. Chadwell |
|
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Dr. Gabriel Goodman |
(b. 1528, d. 1601)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dr. Henry Mountlow |
Doctor of civil law and lecturer.
|
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Dr. Hugh Weston |
(b. 1505, d. 1558)
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dr. John Bull |
Composer, musician, and lecturer.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dr. John Chambers |
|
|
Dr. John Story |
Member of Parliament. Executed at Tyburn for high treason.
|
Wikipedia |
Dr. Jones |
Doctor.
|
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Dr. Layton |
Doctor.
|
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Dr. Mathew Guin |
Doctor and lecturer.
|
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Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe |
(b. between 1549 and 1550, d. 1629)
Dean of Exeter.
|
ODNB Wikipedia |
Dr. Miles Dicar |
|
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Dr. Page |
Preacher.
|
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Dr. Pendleton |
Preacher.
|
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Dr. Richard Yaxley |
|
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Dr. Stephen Gardiner |
(d. 1555)
Bishop of Winchester |