From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8448 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, February 9 2022 Volume 14 : Number 8448 Today's Subjects: ----------------- I Will Help You Survive the Coming War With China ["Survival Book" Subject: I Will Help You Survive the Coming War With China I Will Help You Survive the Coming War With China http://fungusfix.biz/nO4nakkhghMqtJV3tAS35rWYedvjf9s7GnKXn9-J-pTj5EdAHw http://fungusfix.biz/zmAGhasQHFH73He-MLgAqaGnEnkoWq7V34DZUT79SBxrxIRhLg rn at the Palace of Westminster on the night of 17b18 June 1239, to King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Edward is an Anglo-Saxon name, and was not commonly given among the aristocracy of England after the Norman conquest, but Henry was devoted to the veneration of Edward the Confessor, and decided to name his firstborn son after the saint. Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall. Henry of Almain remained a close companion of the prince, both through the civil war that followed, and later during the crusade. Edward was in the care of Hugh Giffard b father of the future Chancellor Godfrey Giffard b until Bartholomew Pecche took over at Giffard's death in 1246. There were concerns about Edward's health as a child, and he fell ill in 1246, 1247, and 1251. Nonetheless, he became an imposing man; at 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) he towered over most of his contemporaries, and hence perhaps his epithet "Longshanks", meaning "long legs" or "long shins". The historian Michael Prestwich states that his "long arms gave him an advantage as a swordsman, long thighs one as a horseman. In youth, his curly hair was blond; in maturity it darkened, and in old age it turned white. [His features were marred by a drooping left eyelid.] His speech, despite a lisp, was said to be persuasive." In 1254 English fears of a Castilian invasion of the English province of Gascony induced King Henry to arrange a politically expedient marriage between fifteen-year-old Edward and thirteen-year-old Eleanor, the half-sister of King Alfonso X of Castile. They were married on 1 November 1254 in the Abbey of Santa MarC-a la Real de Las Huelgas in Castile. As part of the marriage agreement, Edward received grants of land worth 15,000 marks a year. Although the endowments King Henry made were sizeable, they offered Edward little independence. He had already received Gascony as early as 1249, but Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, had been appointed as royal lieutenant the year before and, consequently, drew its inco ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8448 **********************************************