HeyJaredMeg Loves History
I write mainly about English history from Anglo-Saxon times through 1485. I especially love history involving Northumbria/York as well the spread of Christianity in the British Isles. I am a Christian, wife, and mom.
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On This Day, 1 & 2 October (opens the original)
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This is part II of this week’s On This Day round-up. For this second half of the week, we have two kings’ birthdays (Henry III and Richard III).I hope you enjoy these posts! Let me know what you think in the comments section, and please subscribe if you haven’t already.On 1 October 1207, the baby who would become Henry III was born at Winchester Castle. His father was the notorious King John (aged 40) and his mother was Isabella of Angoulême (aged about 19). Henry was the first son born to an En
On This Day, 28–30 September (opens the original)
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I’m splitting this week’s On This Day round-up into two posts. For the first half of this week, we have two family feuds with an important feast day in between.I hope you enjoy! If you do, please let me know in the comments at the end of the post, and please subscribe if you haven’t alreadyOn 28 September in 1106, Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror’s eldest son and a returning crusader, lost the Battle of Tinchebray to his youngest brother, Henry I of England.<a class="image-link image2 is-v
Two men, one date: Oswin of Deira and Bernard of Clairvaux (opens the original)
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A Northumbrian king gets handed over to his cousin’s men at Gilling in 651. Five hundred years later, an abbot dies in a valley in Champagne. They’ve got more to do with each other than you’d think.I had two notes sitting side-by-side this week. At first I thought they were unrelated but for the date: a seventh-century murdered king and a twelfth-century abbot. If you follow them both forward though, they really form a good argument.20 August 651: a king is handed over at GillingKing Oswin’s fat
About me! (opens the original)
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My name is Meg. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="600" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUYH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a64d100-3df9-436e-bfc7-2
Taken on faith (opens the original)
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Mary’s final appearances in ScriptureMary is at Jesus’s crucifixion along with others. Jesus entrusts his mother to John (John 19:25-27).When the disciples went to Jerusalem after Jesus’s ascension, Mary was in the upper room with them and the other women and Jesus’s brothers (Acts 1:13-14).That is the last we hear of Mary, mother of Jesus. Scripture doesn’t say when or how she died, about her burial, or an assumption.What tradition says happensThe silence in the Bible doesn’t prevent trad
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