Robert Fitzwalter

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Died	November 9, 1235

Stephen

Stephen

king of England

William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke

English regent

Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st earl of Essex

English baron

Robert, earl of Gloucester

English noble

Ranulf de Gernons, 4th earl of Chester

English noble

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore

British statesman

Priscilla Alden

English colonist

John Alden

English colonist

Hugh Le Despenser

English noble, the younger [died 1326]

Hugh Le Despenser

English noble, the elder [1262-1326]

Sidney Webb

British economist

Beatrice Webb

British economist

Poet John Milton

John Milton

English poet

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

English statesman

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

queen of England

William I

William I

king of England

Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII

king of England

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum

John Bunyan

English author