GDPNow -- July 3, 2023

Locator: 45879ECON. 

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The Book Page

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, And Murder In Medieval England, Alison Weir, c. 2005. BISA. [Biography: ISA].

Notes. 

Newgate Street, London.

Ruins of Christ Church (WWII blitz); the site of Christ's Hospital, the Blue Coat School founded by Edward VI in the 16th century; destroyed during the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Christopher Wren.

From wiki: 

Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate Street, was a church in Newgate Street, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. 

Established as a monastic church in the thirteenth century, it became a parish church after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Following its destruction in the Great Fire of London of 1666, it was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. Except for the tower, the church was largely destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. The decision was made not to rebuild the church; the ruins are now a public garden. Steeple finished in 1704.

This church was originally built in 1225; later endowed and reconstructed through the generosity off pious medieval queens; 14th century, the royal mausoleum rivaled Westminster Abbey as the resting place of crowned heads. The splendors long gone, disappeared after Henry VIII dissolved the monastery in 1538, during the Reformation.

One of those buried in Greyfriars Church at Newgate, and whose tomb was lost, was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen, one off the most notorious femmes fatales in history.

One of her favored residences: Castle Rising in Norfolk.

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