Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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King Henry II
Standard Name: Henry II, King
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | George Egerton | By the time she reached adulthood, GE
had given up Roman Catholicism because she found the Irish priesthood hypocritical. On 27 April 1936 she wrote: The more I go into Irish history the more clearly... |
| Dedications | Marie de France | She dedicated the Lais to the King (who may well have been Henry II
). The earliest dated manuscript survives in the British Library
as Harleian MS 978; it contains a prologue as well as... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | MB
claimed relationship on her mother's side with Rosamund or Rosamond Clifford
, the legendary Fair Rosamond who was mistress to Henry II
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | His family claimed descent from Roderick or Rory O'Conor
(or Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair), who was King of Connaught. Roderick or Ruaidri was the last of the High Kings of Ireland, since by 1175 he swore... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Helme | The important nunnery at Godstow near Oxford, standing beside the River Thames, was the supposed place of retirement for the penitent mistress of Henry II
, Rosamund Clifford
or the Fair Rosamond. The... |
| Literary Setting | T. S. Eliot | Eliot depicts his protagonist, Becket
—the archbishop who was murdered at his own altar steps in Canterbury for following his conscience and disobeying his king
—less as a hero than as a tormented man who... |
| Residence | Marie de France | Having moved to England, MF frequented the court of Henry II
and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine
(who was a patron, and the descendant of a troubadour). |
| Textual Features | Hildegarde of Bingen | The quantity of HB's letters, which were collected near the end of her life, is immense. Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 91 Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 100 |
| Textual Features | Michael Field | Fair Rosamund chronicles the legend of young Rosamund
's tragic love for Henry II, King of England
. In the end Rosamund, now the king's mistress stabs herself with a knife given to her by... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Pearson | None of the poems here was included in the volume of 1790; several of them bear the date of 1795, like the closing Rosamond
to Henry the Second
, During her Confinement at Woodstock... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | Karen O'Brien
argues that Lyttelton
's monumental History of the Life of King Henry the Second, 1767-71, was, in part, the result of intellectual collaboration with Montagu. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 140 |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's Plantagenet saga, a series of fictionalized biographies, began with The Plantagenet Prelude, about the lives of Henry II
and his consort Eleanor of Aquitaine
. Eleanor was another compelling historical figure, already... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Norah Lofts | This novel reveals how, as a historian and a novelist, NL
was engaged in the effort to render history, and specifically the history of powerful women, accessible to contemporary readers. Eleanor of Aquitaine is one... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Pearson | Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II
of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France
. The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590... |
Timeline
25 October 1154: King Stephen died; Henry II assumed the throne...
National or international item
25 October 1154
King Stephen
died; Henry II
assumed the throne of England on 19 December 1154.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
36
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
October 1175: Under the Treaty of Windsor (some of whose...
National or international item
October 1175
Under the Treaty of Windsor (some of whose terms proved short-lived) Ruaidri Ua Conchobair
(generally known as the last High King of Ireland) accepted the rule of English (or Anglo-Norman) Henry II
, and...
1188: King Henry II bought land next to Newgate...
National or international item
1188
King Henry II
bought land next to Newgate (the gate looking west from Old London to Westminster). Newgate prison occupied this site until 1881.
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.
6 July 1189: King Henry II died, and Richard I assumed...
National or international item
6 July 1189
King Henry II
died, and Richard I
assumed the throne of England on 3 September 1189.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
36
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
1 April 1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful...
National or international item
1 April 1204
Eleanor
of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John
, died.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
27-8
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
66-76
12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...
Writing climate item
12 October 1597
Michael Drayton
's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
x
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
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