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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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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