William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (1392–1461), was a powerful
landowner in southwest England. Undertaking royal service, he fought in
France in the later years of the Hundred Years' War. In 1415, he joined
the English invasion of France in the retinue of Thomas, Duke of
Clarence, Henry V's brother, and fought on the Agincourt campaign. In
1437, King Henry VI granted Bonville the profitable office of steward
of the Duchy of Cornwall, passing over and enraging Bonville's powerful
neighbour Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon. His dispute with Bonville
descended into violence, and the feud continued intermittently for the
next decade. In 1453, Henry became ill and entered a catatonic state for
eighteen months; Bonville generally seems to have remained loyal to the
king, although his guiding motivation was to support whoever would aid
him in his feud. In 1461, he took part on the losing side in the Second
Battle of St Albans during the Wars of the Roses and was beheaded for
it.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bonville,_1st_Baron_Bonville>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
By royal decree, King Philip V established the Real Academia de
la Historia, tasked with studying the history of Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Academia_de_la_Historia>
1949:
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, declaring
Ireland a republic and terminating its membership of the British
Commonwealth of Nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland>
1958:
Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from
St. Elizabeths Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., in
which he had been incarcerated for twelve years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound>
1980:
Robert Mugabe took the oath of office to become the first prime
minister of Zimbabwe upon the country's independence from the United
Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
footbath:
1. The act of soaking or washing the feet.
2. A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.
3. A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet
with.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footbath>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no
man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. The
objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to
be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one
who hunches the world along.
--Clarence Darrow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow>