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    Pleshey is a historic village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district, in the county of Essex, England, 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Chelmsford....
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    Pleshey Castle is a man-made motte and bailey castle in Pleshey in Essex, England. It was built in the 11th century and it is one of the best preserved...
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    Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) of Pleshey Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of...
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    England under Humphrey (IV). Humphrey (IV) had reserved the honour of Pleshey for his younger son Henry, but the remainder of his lands went to Humphrey...
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    Easter, Great and Little Leighs, Great Waltham, Little Waltham, Mashbury, Pleshey, Roxwell, Springfield, and Writtle. Formed largely from the existing constituency...
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    jiu-jitsu. In 2014, he bought and renovated the Leather Bottle pub in Pleshey, Essex, and became a popular landlord. Flint kept a jar in which customers...
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    reports a rumour that Mary's sister Eleanor de Bohun kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle and held her at Arundel Castle, where she was kept as a novice nun;...
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    a plot with John of Gaunt, Mary's aunt took her from Thomas' castle at Pleshey back to Arundel whereupon she was married to Henry Bolingbroke, the future...
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    Waltham, Great Baddow, Little Baddow, Galleywood, Howe Green, Margaretting, Pleshey, Stock, Roxwell, Danbury, Bicknacre, Writtle, Moulsham, Rettendon, The...
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    6th Earl of Essex (1341–1373) of Pleshey Castle in Essex. Anne was born on 30 April 1383 and was baptised at Pleshey, Essex, sometime before 6 May. Her...
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  • Ostend Ovington Pale Green Parkeston Pebmarsh Pentlow Pilgrims Hatch Pitsea Pleshey Potton Island Prittlewell Purfleet Quendon Ramsey Rawreth Rayleigh Rayne...
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    at Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire, the seat of the Swynford family, or at Pleshey in Essex, the home of Joan Fitzalan, Countess of Hereford. The usual date...
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    his various castles, including the Tower of London, Saffron Walden and Pleshey, all important fortifications because they were in, or close to, London...
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    his various castles, including the Tower of London, Saffron Walden and Pleshey, all important fortifications because they were in, or close to, London...
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    was invented circa 1879 by farmer Thomas Darby and built at Lodge Farm Pleshey, near Chelmsford in Essex, England. Robert Hasler, seen driving the Digger...
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  • to the throne. The plot failed and Holland fled, but was caught, near Pleshey Castle in Essex, and executed on 16 January 1400. Among those who witnessed...
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    Highwood Little Baddow Little Waltham Margaretting Mashbury (meeting) Pleshey Rettendon Roxwell Runwell Sandon South Hanningfield South Woodham Ferrers...
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    country. There were castles at Colchester, Castle Hedingham, Rayleigh, Pleshey and elsewhere. Hadleigh Castle was developed much later, in the thirteenth...
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    existence. The Borough of Chelmsford wards of All Saints, Boreham, Broomfield, Pleshey and Great Waltham, Cathedral, Chignall, Good Easter, Mashbury, Highwood...
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    also been baptised Thomas. He married Eleanor de Bohun in 1374, was given Pleshey Castle in Essex, and was appointed Constable of the Realm, a position previously...
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  • a mob in Bristol on January 13. The Earl of Huntingdon is beheaded at Pleshey on January 16. February 14 – The deposed Richard II of England dies by...
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  • died in his bed on 4 October 1471. Reginald Bray organized his burial at Pleshey. Henry appears as a character in Philippa Gregory's series of novels The...
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  • Enguerrand II de Fiennes, chevalier, seigneur of Fiennes. He was born at Pleshey Castle, Essex. Humphrey (VII) de Bohun succeeded his father in 1298 as...
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    Constable of England. He rarely visited Caldicot, his main estates being at Pleshey in Essex, close to the seat of power. In 1381, however, Essex was convulsed...
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    Monthermer and Isabella Hastings with her younger sister Joan of the Tower at Pleshey. In 1325, there were negotiations between England and Castile for Eleanor...
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    also summarily beheaded on 13 January 1400. Huntingdon was captured at Pleshey and dealt with likewise on 16 January 1400. Blount escaped to Oxford, where...
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    Kettlethorpe, but it is possible that both Joan and Thomas were born at Pleshey Castle in Essex. Anthony Goodman, who adhered to the traditional date of...
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  • officials and lawyers.' He was still so when he died on 6 April 1395 in Pleshey, Essex of natural causes. He was interred in Tonbridge, Kent. William also...
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    Philippa of Hainault. Following their marriage, the couple went to reside in Pleshey Castle, Essex. According to Jean Froissart, Eleanor and her husband had...
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    11 August 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2018. "Pargetting on the White Horse, Pleshey (C) Colin Smith". geograph.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August...
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