Married Humphrey, uncle to the child King Henry VI. Eleanor was implicated in a plot of treasonable necromancy against the king. Her supposed co-conspirators were executed and she was sentenced to three days' public penance walking barefoot through the streets of London, followed by enforced divorce and life imprisonment. Her penance is enacted in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2. The ODNB says the penance was "to walk barefoot to three London churches on successive market days in November" - not quite what the CI doors says. And on the doors it seems to be her back giving her gyp, not her feet.
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Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
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CI - 2 - Eleanor
We can't find proof that her route was as specified: from Queen Hithe (at the...
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King George I
Born Hanover. When the last of Queen Anne's 17 children died without issue (no one could accuse her of not trying) there were lots of Catholic potential claimants, but Britain wanted a Protestant h...
6 memorials
King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
Born in Stockholm to the crown prince of Sweden and Norway. Became king Oscar II of Sweden and Norway on the death of his brother on 18 September 1872. The union between the two countries failed in...
1 memorial
King David II of Scotland
King of Scotland from 1329. He spent many years in exile in France or in captivity in England. David was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross in October 1346 and spent some time in the Tower ...
1 memorial
Richard Penderel
Born Tong Shropshire, one of 5 catholic brothers. In 1651, following his father's beheading in 1649, Charles II was running from Cromwell's army. The Penderels disguised him and helped him on his...
1 memorial
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Mr Benn
SW15, Festing Road, 52
The memorial is actually in the pavement at the junction of Festing Road and Lower Richmond Road. Our map pin is at number 54, the house...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Medieval bastion
First conserved in 1959 by the Ministry of Works when it was in the basement of the then new General Post Office. The picture source is a report by the developers of the current building.
1 memorial
First British public airmail flight
BR3, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, Croydon Road
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Michael Balfe
W1, Seymour Street, 12
L.C.C. 1911 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), musical composer, lived here.
1 subject commemorated
Michael Collins
Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned i...
1 memorial
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