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		<title>1152 - Church of Ireland acknowledges the Pope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry is short and sweet.
The Church of Ireland acknowledges the Pope&#8217;s authority.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This entry is short and sweet.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Church of <a title="Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland">Ireland</a> acknowledges the <a title="Pope" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope">Pope&#8217;s</a> authority.</p>
<p>From <a title="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1152" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>890 - Ottar from Hålogaland meets King Alfred the Great</title>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2008/06/26/890-ottar-from-halogaland-meets-king-alfred-the-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, who is this guy other than the &#8220;North-most of all the Northmen&#8221;??  Interesting stuff though.
Ohthere from Hålogaland (Norwegian: Ottar fra Hålogaland) was a Viking adventurer from Hålogaland. Around 890 AD he travelled to England, where Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, had his tales written down.
Ohthere reported that he lived &#8220;north-most of all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously, who is this guy other than the &#8220;North-most of all the Northmen&#8221;??  Interesting stuff though.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Ohthere from Hålogaland</strong> (<a title="Norwegian language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language">Norwegian</a>: <em>Ottar fra Hålogaland</em>) was a <a title="Viking" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking">Viking</a> adventurer from <a title="Hålogaland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5logaland">Hålogaland</a>. Around <a title="890" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/890">890</a> AD he travelled to <a title="History of Anglo-Saxon England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England">England</a>, where <a title="Alfred the Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great">Alfred the Great</a>, king of <a title="Wessex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex">Wessex</a>, had his tales written down.</p>
<p>Ohthere reported that he lived &#8220;north-most of all the Northmen&#8221;, and that &#8220;no-one [lived] to the north of him&#8221;.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottar_from_H%C3%A5logaland#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> He spoke of his travels to the <a title="White Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sea">White Sea</a>, and south to England; of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_people">Finns</a> (and possibly also the <a title="Sami people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people">Sámi</a>, since at that time the term &#8220;Finns&#8221; referred to the Sámi, as well as the people known today as Finns) and the <a title="Swedish people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_people">Swedes</a>; and of a mysterious people called the &#8220;Beormas&#8221;, who spoke a language related to that of the Finns, and lived in an area of the White Sea region. This is marked on the accompanying map as &#8220;<a title="Bjarmaland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarmaland">Bjarmland</a>&#8220;, and has been seen by some as a reference to people of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Old Permic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Permic">Old Permic</a> culture.</p>
<p>Ohthere&#8217;s story is the earliest known written source for the terms &#8220;<a title="Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway">Norway</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title="Denmark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark">Denmark</a>&#8220;.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottar_from_H%C3%A5logaland#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Template-Fact"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since April 2008">[<em><a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a></em>]</span></sup></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Ohthere is believed to have come from <a title="Troms" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms">Troms</a>, probably somewhere north of <a title="Harstad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harstad">Harstad</a>, perhaps the island of <a title="Senja" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senja">Senja</a>, where today&#8217;s <a title="Lenvik" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenvik">Lenvik</a> is seen as a likely home; or possibly further north, for example from either of the islands of <a title="Kvaløya (Tromsø)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kval%C3%B8ya_%28Troms%C3%B8%29">Kvaløya</a> and <a title="Karlsøy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karls%C3%B8y">Karlsøy</a>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>From <a title="From wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottar_from_H%C3%A5logaland" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>1421 - The Battle of Baugé</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the French it appears CAN win a battle, just not the wars.  GG France&#8230; although it was the &#8220;French-Scots&#8221;, so that probably has something to do with it.
The Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and the Franco-Scots on March 21, 1421 in Baugé, France, east of Angers, was a major defeat for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, the French it appears CAN win a battle, just not the wars.  GG France&#8230; although it was the &#8220;French-Scots&#8221;, so that probably has something to do with it.</p>
<blockquote><p>The <strong>Battle of Baugé</strong>, fought between the <a title="English people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people">English</a> and the <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">Franco</a>-<a title="Scotland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland">Scots</a> on <a title="March 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21">March 21</a>, <a title="1421" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421">1421</a> in <a title="Baugé" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baug%C3%A9">Baugé</a>, <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</a>, east of <a title="Angers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers">Angers</a>, was a major defeat for the English in the <a title="Hundred Years' War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War">Hundred Years&#8217; War</a>. The English army was led by the king&#8217;s brother <a title="Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_of_Lancaster%2C_1st_Duke_of_Clarence">Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence</a>, while the Franco-Scots were led by both <a class="mw-redirect" title="John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Buchan">John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan</a>, and Sieur de Lafayette, the <a title="Constable of France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable_of_France">Constable of France</a>. English strength was 10,000 men, against the French-Scots&#8217; 6,000.</p></blockquote>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">The battle</span></h2>
<p>While Henry was in England raising fresh levies in 1421, his brother Thomas the Duke of Clarence led less than 1,500 <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baug%C3%A9#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup>men south towards the Loire. They set about besieging the castle at Bauge when a Scottish army of 6,000 men commanded by the Earl of Buchan made contact with them the day before Good Friday. A truce was reached, lasting until Monday, so that the combatants could properly observe the religious occasion of Easter. The English lifted their siege and withdrew to nearby Beaufort, while the Scots camped at La Lude. However, early in the afternoon of Saturday Scottish scouts reported that the English had broken the truce and were advancing upon the Scots, hoping to take them by surprise. The Scots rallied hastily and battle was joined at a bridge which the Duke of Clarence, with banner unfurled for battle, sought to cross. A detachment of a few hundred men under Sir Robert Stewart of Ralston, reinforced by the retinue of Hugh Kennedy, held the bridge and prevented passage long enough for the Earl of Buchan to rally the rest of his army, whereupon they made a fighting retreat to the town where the English archers would be ineffective.</p>
<p>Both armies now joined in a bitter melee that lasted until nightfall. During the melee Sir John Carmichael of Douglasdale broke his lance unhorsing the Duke of Clarence; since that day the Carmichael coat of arms displays an armoured hand holding aloft a broken lance in commemoration of the victory. Once on the ground, the Duke was killed by Sir Alexander Buchanan. The English dead included the Lord Roos, Sir John Grey and Gilbert de Umfraville, whose death directly led to the extinction of the male line of that illustrious family, well known to the Scots since the Wars of Independence. The Earl of Somerset and his brother were captured by Laurence Vernon (later elevated to the rank of knight for his conduct), the Earl of Huntingdon was captured by Sir John Sibbald, and Lord Fitz Walter was taken by Henry Cunningham. On hearing of the Scottish victory, Pope Martin V passed comment by reiterating a common mediaeval saying, that &#8220;the Scots are well-known as an antidote to the English.&#8221; In the summer of 1421 the Dauphin campaigned north of the Loire and retook much territory. In gratitude to the Scots he made Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas, Lieutenant-General of the French forces and conferred upon him the title of Duke of Touraine. Sir John Stuart of Darnley received the lands of Aubigny-sur-Nere and Concressault. The Earl of Buchan was made Constable of France. In 1422 the Dauphin created the &#8220;hundred men-at-arms of the King&#8217;s bodyguard&#8221;, known as the &#8220;Hundred Lances of France&#8221;, to supplement the 24 archers of the Guarde Ecossaise. The Hundred Lances eventually became the company known as the Gendarmerie of France who distinguished themselves at Fontenoy in 1745. John Carmichael was elected bishop of Orleans in 1426, and was one of the 6 bishops to attend the coronation of the Dauphin as Charles VII in 1429 at Rheims. Hugh Kennedy, known to the French as Canede, was granted the right to quarter his coat of arms with the fleur de lys of France.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>1543 - Third Succession Act</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1543, an interesting year pulled out of thin air.  There were a few things that happened this year, but of them I chose the Third Succession Act.  Recently, Shawna and I rented &#8220;The Other Bolyen Girl&#8221;, which was about Anne Bolyen, her sister and Henry the VIII.  It was a fairly good movie, and an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1543, an interesting year pulled out of thin air.  There were a few things that happened this year, but of them I chose the Third Succession Act.  Recently, Shawna and I rented &#8220;The Other Bolyen Girl&#8221;, which was about Anne Bolyen, her sister and Henry the VIII.  It was a fairly good movie, and an interesting spin on how the crazed life of Henry and his many marriages and desperate desire for a son developed, and how these women were &#8220;taken care of&#8221; so to speak.  Henry VIII&#8217;s reign is pretty big in English history.  Breaking from Rome and establishing the Church of England, a founder of the Royal Navy (the Mary Rose), building coastal defences, and leaving Mary (Mary I, aka Bloody Mary) &amp; Elizabeth (Elizabeth I, aka The Virgin Queen) as heirs to the throne after Edward.</p>
<blockquote><p>The <strong>Third Succession Act</strong> of <a title="Henry VIII of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England">Henry VIII&#8217;s</a> reign was passed by the <a title="Parliament of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_England">Parliament of England</a> in mid-1543, and returned both <a title="Mary I of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England">Mary</a> and <a title="Elizabeth I of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England">Elizabeth</a> to the line of the succession behind <a title="Edward VI of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England">Prince Edward</a>. The Act was formally titled the <strong>Succession to the Crown Act 1543</strong>, or the <strong>Act of Succession 1543</strong>; it is often incorrectly dated 1544. The Act superseded the <a title="First Succession Act" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Succession_Act">First Succession Act</a> and the <a title="Second Succession Act" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Succession_Act">Second Succession Act</a>, which had left <a title="Edward VI of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England">Prince Edward</a> the only heir to the throne. It returned both of Henry&#8217;s daughters <a title="Mary I of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England">Mary</a> and <a title="Elizabeth I of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England">Elizabeth</a> to the line of succession, behind Edward, any potential children of his, and any potential children of Henry by his current wife <a title="Catherine Parr" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr">Catherine Parr</a>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Edward VI attempted to ignore the Act in his will by naming <a title="Lady Jane Grey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey">Lady Jane Grey</a> as his successor in place of Mary. However this failed and Mary took her rightful place on the throne as ordained by the Act.</p></blockquote>
<p>From <a title="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Succession_Act" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>.</p>
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		<title>Greenacre - Oates Family Tree</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Great Uncle Wilf and my Great Uncle Alan had worked for many years on the Greenacre - Oates side of the family tree.  They gathered information via Census and Church/Parish records, gravestones, etc.
I have a full copy of all of their final work, and have decided to continue where they left off.
With the advent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My Great Uncle Wilf and my Great Uncle Alan had worked for many years on the Greenacre - Oates side of the family tree.  They gathered information via Census and Church/Parish records, gravestones, etc.</p>
<p>I have a full copy of all of their final work, and have decided to continue where they left off.</p>
<p>With the advent of the Internet, and many people turning to the online community to work on their Genealogy, there are a great many resources to help me track down and find missing ancestors, gaps in the tree, and expand upon what has already been discovered.</p>
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		<title>Savage Family Tree</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have begun the Savage Family Tree.  Stand by for further info.
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