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Historical figures Flashcards

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Cassivellaunus

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First Breton known by name

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Boudicca

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Queen of the Iceni tribe, led a revolt against Romans in 60-61 AD, destroyed Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium

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Calgacus

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Leader of Caledonians

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Honorius

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Broke connection with Britain in 410 AD

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At Alban

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Proto-martyr (hid a Christian against Roman oppression)
-Verulamium->St. Albans

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St David

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Patron od Wales, established monastic rule in Wales

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St Patrick

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Patron of Ireland, converted Ireland in 432 AD

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St Mungo

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Founder of Glasgow

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St Brigid

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Female patron of Ireland

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St Augustine

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Founded the Archbishopric in Canterbury (601 AD)

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King Oswiu

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Called the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD

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Venerable Bede

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The Church History of The English People (731 AD)

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Vortigern

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Self-declared Overlord of all Britain, invited Judes to help him against the Picts -449 AD

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Hengest and Horsa

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Jutes, helped with Pictish raids, stayed & Beginning of Anglo-Saxons -449 AD

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Ambriosius Aurelianus

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United Western Britons, Battle of Mount Badon (500/515 AD) -stopped Anglo-Saxon invasions for some decades

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King Egbert of Essex

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The last overlord (Bretwalda)

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Alfred the Great 871-901 AD

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King of Wessex, school, monasteries, standing fleet, DANELAW,
Treaty of Wedmore (878 AD)
Anglo Saxon Chronicles (891-1154 AD)

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Edward the Elder

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Invasion of the Danelaw, gradual re-conquest of England

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Athlestan 924-929 AD

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first true king of England, unified
Battle of Brunanburgh -937 AD

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Ethelred the Unready

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Renewed Danish raids (Battle of Maldon -991 AD), Danegeld, masacre of Danes

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Canute the Great 1016-1035 AD

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wise and peaceful, reforms, four Earldoms

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St. Edward the Confessor

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son of Ethelred, castles, Norman influences, only CANONISED king

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Harold Godwinson

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Earl of Wessex, pretender for the throne, killed int he battle of Hastings (1066)

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Harald Hardrada

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King of Norway, pretender for the English throne, lost the battle of Stamford Bridge

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William the Bastard/Conqueror (1066-1087 AD)

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Duke of Normandy, blessed by Pop,e won the battle of Hastings (1066),”Norman Yoke”, feudalism, Domesday Book (1086 AD)

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William II Rufus (1087-1100)

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in conflict with church & barons, division of Wales (Marcia Walliae, Wallia Pura)

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Stephen of Blois

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The last Norman ruler

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Henry II (1154-1189)

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First Plantagenet, , father of the common law, Constitutions of Clarendon (11644) -clerks judged by bishops, but punished by the royal court

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Pope Adrian IV

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First and only English pope in history

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Thomas Becket

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archbishop of Canterbury, resists the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), murdered

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Richard I Lionheart (1189-1199)

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took the throne from Henry II, Third Crusade, imprisoned in Austria & ransomed

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John the Lackland (1199-1216)

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taxes, lost Normandy in 1204, conflict with the Pope, Magna Carta (1215), Fist Baron’s War (1215-1217)

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Henry III (1216-1272)

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barons grow in significance, textile industry, salt & coal,
Second Barons’ War (1264-1267)

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Simon de Montford

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Led the Second Barons’ War (1264-67), Parliament -1265 AD

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Edward I (1272-1307)

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Greatest Plantegenet, founder of the English parliamentary system, wars agains Wales & Scotland, Stature of Rhuddlan (1284). Model Parliament (1295), Auld Alliance 1294

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Edward II

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First (English) Prince of Wales

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Sir William Wallace (Braveheart)
1297-1305

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Battle of Stirling Bridge, Battle of Falkirk

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Robert the Bruce

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Crowned king of Scotland in 1306, reconquered north of Scotland

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Edward III (1327-1377)

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Age of chivalry, English as an official language, House of Commons & House of Lords, Beginning of the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453), Black Death (1348)

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Richard II
(1377-1399)

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Great Revolt of Peasants in 1318

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Henry IV (1399-113)

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Revolt against Owain Glyndwr (1400-1415)

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