26 May 1680: Christopher Davenport or Francis of St Clare #Franciscan, dies #otd at Somerset House #London. He tried to reconcile The Thirty Nine Articles with Catholic teaching (BM/eebo) No-one really thanked him for all this. He also a go at Hobbes.
26 May 1680: Christopher Davenport or Francis of St Clare #Franciscan, dies #otd at Somerset House #London. He tried to reconcile The Thirty Nine Articles with Catholic teaching (BM/eebo)
No-one really thanked him for this. He also a go at Hobbes.
26 May 1329: Edward III sails from Dover #otd to perform simple homage to King Philippe of #France for #Aquitaine#otd. He did so at Amiens cathedral on 29 June (National Trust images/HLawford)
26 May 1645: Lawrence Esmond, baron of Limberick Co. #Wexford dies #otd at Adamstown. He had been governor of the vitally strategic Duncannon Fort since 1606 till his troops mutinied & declared for #Parliament in Oct 1644 (BL/JMcC)
26 May 946: Edmund I King of #England murdered by Leofa, an exiled thief, while attending St Augustine's Day Mass #otd in Pucklechurch (South Gloucestershire)
French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher Edmond de Goncourt was born #OTD in 1822.
He was the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Some of his work was written in collaboration with his brother, Jules. Until his death in 1870, Jules was the main author of the Journal, which was then continued by Edmond, who remained alone. It consists of a collection of notes, generally brief, taken from day to day.
26 May 1599: John Darrell appears before High Commission charged with being an impostor exorcist #otd He’d been deprived of his licence to preach in 1597 (BM)
26 May 1599: John Bradshaw enters #Benedictine abbey of St. Martin in Compostella as novice, he takes name Augustine [of Canterbury] #otd (BM) - whose death date it was.
26 May 1634: John Bramhall, future Archbisop of Armagh, consecrated Bishop of #Derry#otd by James Ussher & bishops of Meath, Down & Connor & Cork (Sidney Sussex College)
At his point he was not yet 40, which caused some comment.
American artist and fiction writer Robert W. Chambers was born #OTD in 1865.
Chambers is best known for his weird fiction and horror stories, particularly "The King in Yellow," a collection of short stories published in 1895. He wrote numerous other novels and short stories across various genres including "The Maker of Moons" (1896), "The Mystery of Choice" (1897), and "The Tracer of Lost Persons" (1906).
#otd 1421 died Mehmed I, Ottoman sultan. He was buried in Bursa, near the so-called Green Mosque built by him. The monument built by his son Murad II is called Green Tomb. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pics.: Wikipedia Commons