The story opens in the civil war for the English crown between Stephen
and EmpressMatilda or Maud
. (Mackenzie calls the empress Maud, while for her it is Stephen's wife who is Matilda.) Mackenzie...
Textual Features
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin
murders Ethelred
's son Alfred Ætheling
at Guildford Castle; Henry I
's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120...
Textual Production
Ngaio Marsh
NM
published in England another detective novel with upper-class ambience, Surfeit of Lampreys, which had already appeared in the USA under the title Death of a Peer.
A lamprey is an eel-like fish...
Timeline
2 August 1100: King William II died; Henry I assumed the...
National or international item
2 August 1100
King William II
died; Henry I
assumed the throne of England on 5 August 1100.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1101: Maud, first wife of Henry I of England, founded...
Building item
1101
Maud
, first wife of Henry I
of England, founded St Giles' Hospital
at St-Giles-in-the-Fields, near London, to care for forty lepers.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.