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Simon Burbidge and wife Kathy from Wantage will take part in the Tour de Manche cycle ride for Prostate Cancer UK

Simon Burbidge and wife Kathy from Wantage will take part in the Tour de Manche cycle ride for Prostate Cancer UK

AFTER William I invaded England in 1066, he spent a number of years subduing the whole country.

10/12/2009: It was on this date in 1944 that Army Staff Sergeant Jack Pendleton became a hero. It was also the last day of his life.

The princess, born Micaëla Ana María Cousiño y Quiñones de León in Vichy in central France in 1938, into a family of Chilean-Spanish nobles, passed away on Sunday.

In this article you will find a presentation of the "House of Normandy" faction. But also the history around the family, the composition of the family present in the mod, the strengths and weaknesses of the faction in the mod and many other things. Have...

Stephen Roberts Cromwells Castle from the air - Credit: Historic England It’s about quality, not quantity. That was my feeling when I delved into Cornish castles. There aren’t oodles; possibly due to being a separatist community in the South West. The Normans were great castle builders, erecting fortresses to cow the defeated English into submission. Perhaps in Cornwall it wasn’t necessary, well, not on such a scale anyway. There are around 20 castles in the county, which is not a huge nu...

A St. Landry Parish family is hopeful that a U.S. Army forensics team has discovered the remains of Sgt. Francis Joseph Vidrine, a Grand Prairie native presumably killed and missing for nearly 77 years following an infantry combat mission in France a month after the D-Day invasion. Vidrine, according to military records, was killed July 7, 1944, while with the 30th Army infantry division at Mortain, France. Then 24, he was declared missing in action and later declared dead. However, the body of...

Born around 1036, Odo was the son of a minor lord of moderate income, one Herluin of Conteville. His mother was Herleva, a daughter of a Falaise tanner named Fulbert. From this marriage was also born Robert of Mortain, Odo’s brother and another of William the Conqueror’s closest supporters. What is more, Herleva had an illegitimate son, born from an extra-marital union with Robert I, Duke of Normandy. Often called “the Bastard,” that son was William the Conqueror. Being the half-brothe...