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Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519, Florence – January 5, 1589, Blois), born in Italy as Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici, and later lived in France under the name Catherine de Médicis, was Queen of France as the wife of King Henry II of France, of the Valois branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that branch. Born in Florence, Italy, she was a daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and a French princess, Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. Having lost both her ...

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The College was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, then Bishop of Lincoln, (cadaver tomb in Lincoln Cathedral) to combat the Lollard teachings of John Wyclif. He intended it to be "a little college of true students of theology who would defend the mysteries of Scripture against those ignorant laymen who profaned with swinish snouts its most holy pearls". Due to insufficient endowment, however, the College seems only to have survived more than a few decades thanks to the munificence of a second Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Roth ...

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Gaurico's reputation was such that he served as an "astrological consultant" to Catherine de Medici. Gaurico had predicted the accession to the papacy of Catherine's great-uncle Giovanni de Medici (when he was 14 –who later became Leo X) and predicted Catherine’s uncle Giulio de Medici involvement in important political struggles and numerous descendants. Giulio de Medici later was to become Pope Clement VI, who involved with disputes with both Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Henry VIII ...

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On October 28, 1533, he married Catherine of Medici (April 13, 1519 - January 5, 1589) Issue: François II (January 19, 1544 - December 5, 1560) Elisabeth de France (April 2, 1545 - October 3, 1568) married Philip II of Spain Claude (November 12, 1547 - February 21, 1575) married Charles II, Duke of Lorraine Louis (February 3, 1549 - October, 1549) Charles-Maximilien (Charles IX) (June 27, 1550 - May 30, 1574) Edouard Alexandre (Henry III) (September 19, 1551 - August 2, ...

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King Henry II of England approved the election of Hugh of Avalon, a Carthusian monk and later canonized a saint, as Bishop of Lincoln in 1186, and St. Hugh died in 1200, before his plan for the rebuilding was completed. The western end of the cathedral was always where it is now, but the eastern end (east of the original, now "great" transept) was moved eastward each time the cathedral was enlarged: The eastern wall of the Norman building (1073) was in the middle of what is now St. Hugh's Choir. The eastern end of the Early English building ...

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William the Conqueror ordered the first cathedral to be built in Lincoln, in 1072. Before that, St. Mary's church in Lincoln was a mother church but not a cathedral and the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Lincoln was more central to a diocese that stretched from the Thames to the Humber. Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying two days before it was to be consecrated on May 9 of that year. About fifty years later, most ...

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Over £1 million a year is spent on keeping the cathedral in shape; the most recent project completed has been the restoration of the West Front in 2000. About 10 years ago it was discovered that the Flying Buttresses on the east end were no longer connected to the adjoining stonework, and hasty repairs had to be made. The problems arise because the building techniques used were groundbreaking at the time, and the builders were inventing them as they proceeded. It was not unknown for newly built parts to collapse shortly afterwards, a ...

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Due to Lincoln's small numbers and tightly-knit community, its Junior Common Room (JCR) plays a greater role in student life than do the JCRs of most other colleges. JCR elections, held annually in Trinity Term, attract one of the highest turnouts of any Oxford college. The JCR is run by an Exec of nine officers, headed by the President. The JCR President for 2005-6 is Oliver Munn. His predecessors include Alasdair Henderson (2004-5), Mairi Brewis (2003-4) and Phil Bownes (2002-3). JCR me ...

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