New in GenTales on Medium – English Nobility

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Whether they were created by marriage alliances or political arrangements, names were important legacies to medieval aristocratic English families. They laid claim to lands, castles, positions of prestige, and/or lordships, even more so than they laid claim to their own children.

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Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Hugh Despenser before Queen Isabella. 15th century manuscript illumination from Froissart’s Chronicles. Public Domain.
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Hugh Despenser before Queen Isabella. 15th century manuscript illumination from Froissart’s Chronicles. Public Domain.