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Born 924 • near Glastonbury • England
Died May 19, 988 (aged 64) • Canterbury • England
Wulfstan
English archbishop
Roger of Pont l’Évêque
English archbishop
Sir Francis Englefield
advisor to Mary I
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
St. Gregory the Great
pope
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
English statesman
Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon
English statesman
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford
English noble
William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke
English regent
John Leslie, detail of an engraving
John Leslie
Scottish bishop
Lanfranc
archbishop of Canterbury
Henry, 1st duke and 4th earl of Lancaster
English soldier and diplomat [1300-1361]
George Digby, 2nd earl of Bristol
English statesman
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
English statesman
John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper
English statesman
Sir Henry Vane the Elder
Sir Henry Vane, the Elder
English statesman
Know about the Royal Exchange built by Sir Thomas Gresham, a gathering place for international merchants in London
Sir Thomas Gresham
English financier