William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros (c. 1370 – 1 November 1414), was an English nobleman, politician and soldier. He inherited his father's feudal barony and extensive estates centred on Lincolnshire in 1394. Shortly afterwards he married Margaret, daughter of Baron Fitzalan, whose family, like that of de Ros, was well-connected and implacably opposed to King Richard II. In 1399 Richard confiscated the estates of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, and exiled him. When Henry invaded England several months later, de Ros took his side almost immediately. After Henry declared himself King Henry IV, de Ros voted in the House of Lords for the former king's imprisonment. He became an important aide and counsellor to King Henry, and regularly spoke for him in parliament. He also supported Henry in his military campaigns, participating in the invasion of Scotland in 1400 and assisting in the suppression of Richard le Scrope's rebellion five years later.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1921:

Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Kyle

1941:

American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrise,_Hernandez,_New_Mexico

1944:

World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_November_1944_reconnaissance_sortie_over_Japan

1963:

Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_South_Vietnamese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

subpoena: 1. (law) In full writ of subpoena. 2. A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished. 3. (historical) A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim (a subpoena ad respondendum); in England and Wales, and Ireland, this writ was formerly issued by the Court of Chancery at the plaintiff's request to commence a suit, but the procedure was abolished in 1852. 4. (figurative) A thing which can compel or demand something, or summon someone. 5. (law) 6. To summon (someone) with a subpoena (noun sense 1.1) to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony or to produce evidence; to serve a subpoena on (someone). 7. To require (a document or other evidence) to be produced before a court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding. 8. (figurative) To compel or summon (someone or something); to demand. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subpoena

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; Once we have left it, we can never return.   --Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolas_Boileau-Despr%C3%A9aux