Beaumont Palace Oxford was built by Henry I about 1130 to serve as a royal palace conveniently close to the royal hunting-lodge at Woodstock (now part of the park of Blenheim Palace. Its former presence is recorded in Beaumont Street, Oxford. Set into a pillar on the north side of the street, near Walton Street, is a stone with the inscription: Near this place stood the King's House in which King Richard I was born on 8th September 1157 The 'King's House' was the range of the palace that contained the king's lodgings. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Henry I (c. ... Events February 13 - Innocent II is elected pope An antipope schism occurs when Roger II of Sicily supports Anacletus II as pope instead of Innocent II. Innocent flees to France and Anacletus crowns Roger King. ... The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ... Blenheim Palace, The Great Court. ... Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was King of England from 1189 to 1199. ...

When Edward II was put to flight at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, he is said to have invoked the Virgin Mary and vowed to found a monastery for the Carmelites (the White Friars) if he might escape safely. In fulfillment of his vow he remanded Beaumont Palace to the Carmelites in 1318. When the White Friars were disbanded at the Reformation, most of the structure was dismantled and the building stone reused in Christ Church and St John's College. The last remains of Beaumont Palace were obliterated at the laying out of Beaumont Street in the 1820s. Edward II, (25 April 1284 – October, 1327), of Caernarvon, was king of England from 1307 until deposed in January, 1327. ... The Battle of Bannockburn (June 23, 1314 – June 24, 1314) was a significant Scottish victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence. ... Events June 24 - Battle of Bannockburn. ... The Order of Our Lady of Mt. ... The Dissolution of the Monasteries (referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries) was the formal process, taking place between 1536 and 1540, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic monastic institutions in England and took them to himself, as the... Christ Church, called in Latin Ædes Christi (i. ... There are a number of colleges with the name St. ...

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