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Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr  

David Rollason

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Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr, is the subject of a passio (account of martyrdom) preserved only in the fourteenth-century manuscript in the Gotha Forschungsbibliothek (MS I.81). This text, which is utterly unreliable, presents him as the son of Aldfrith, king of Northumbria...

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Honywood, Mary (1527–1620)  

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Mary Honywood (1527–1620) by unknown artist, c.1620 Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service

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Honywood [née Waters], Mary (1527–1620), matriarch and sustainer of protestant martyrs  

Jacqueline Eales

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Honywood [née Waters], Mary (1527–1620), matriarch and sustainer of protestant martyrs, was the daughter and coheir of Robert Waters, esquire, of Lenham, Kent, where she was born. In 1543 Mary married Robert Honywood, esquire, of Charing, Kent. The couple had 16 children and by the time of her death she had 114 grandchildren, 228 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren. As ...

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Howard [née Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630), noblewoman and priest harbourer  

Nancy Pollard Brown

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Howard [née Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630), noblewoman and priest harbourer, was born in Carlisle on 1 March 1557, the eldest daughter of Thomas Dacre, fourth Lord Dacre of Gilsland (1526?–1566), and his second wife, Elizabeth (d. 1567), daughter of ...

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Howard [Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel (1557–1630)  

Maker: Wenceslaus Hollar

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Anne Howard, countess of Arundel (1557–1630) by Wenceslaus Hollar (after Lucas Vorsterman, c. 1626) © Copyright The British Museum

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Tregian, Francis (1548–1608), recusant gentleman  

Raymond Francis Trudgian

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Tregian, Francis (1548–1608), recusant gentleman, was born in 1548 at Golden Manor, near Probus, Cornwall, the son of John Tregian (1520–1575) and his wife, Katherine (c.1520–c.1580), eldest daughter of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne and his wife, Elizabeth. He received his early education at home before spending the years 1560–72 on the continent. About 1570 he married ...

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Tresham, Sir Thomas (1543–1605), gentleman and recusant  

Julian Lock

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Tresham, Sir Thomas (1543–1605), gentleman and recusant, was the son of John Tresham (c.1520–1546) and Eleanor (d. 1546), daughter of Anthony Catesby of Whiston. Born in September 1543, Thomas became heir at the age of three to the Northamptonshire estates of his grandfather, ...