The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

One of his most memorable exchanges on HIGNFY occurred when he scathingly joked to fellow guest Piers Morgan that the Daily Mirror was now, thanks to Morgan ( then its editor ), almost as good as The Sun.

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

The king fled London, and his companion since Piers Gaveston's death, Hugh Despenser, was publicly tried and executed.

* The fourth stanza was quoted by Lachesis to Zane in Piers Anthony's novel On a Pale Horse, the first of his Incarnations of Immortality series.

What was originally a self-standing village ( which has now been subsumed within the city ) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church.

Michael Winner, whilst appearing on an episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories ( an ITV production ), stated that Quentin Tarantino was a " big fan " of Death Wish.

In a television interview with Piers Morgan on May 3, 2012, Turner said he had four girlfriends, which he acknowledged was complicated but nonetheless easier than being married.

TIFF's director, Piers Handling, said, " American Beauty was the buzz of the festival, the film most talked about.

An early and prominent example of this was The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries by Piers Blaikie in 1985, which traced land degradation in Africa to colonial policies of land appropriation, rather than over-exploitation by African farmers.

In particular they should make sure that Piers Gaveston was not allowed to return to the country.

Edward I was reportedly concerned with his son's failure to live up to the expectations of an heir to the crown, and at one point decided to exile the prince's favourite Piers Gaveston.

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

She is described as born in 1292 in the Annals of Wigmore, and Piers Langtoft agrees, claiming that she was 7 years old in 1299.

Edward was handsome, but highly unconventional, possibly forming close romantic attachments to first Piers Gaveston and then Hugh Despenser the younger.

Isabella was able to come to an understanding with her husband's first lover Piers Gaveston, shown here lying dead at the feet of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick | Guy de Beauchamp, in a 15th-century representation.

When Isabella first arrived in England following her marriage, her husband was already in the midst of a relationship with Piers Gaveston, an " arrogant, ostentatious " soldier, with a " reckless and headstrong " personality that clearly appealed to Edward.

It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King Edward II of England had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of Piers Gaveston in the summer of 1312.

The existing church may be late 11th / early 12th century: the tower is some three centuries later and the most significant change since then was the restoration in 1870 by Piers St Aubyn.

As such, La Cerda's fate paralleled that of Edward II of England's Piers Gaveston in England, and John II of Castile's Alvaro de Luna in Spain ; the position of a royal favourite was a dangerous one.

He was appointed guardian of Scotland in 1306, but with the accession of Edward II to the throne and the consequent rise of Piers Gaveston to power, his influence declined.

The work was dedicated to four individuals, Roger Burney, Piers Dunkerley, David Gill, and Michael Halliday.

Count Peter ( or Piers or Piero ) of Savoy ( d. 1268 ) was the maternal uncle of Eleanor of Provence, queen-consort of Henry III of England, and came with her to London.

Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ) owned a copy of Rogers ' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and Isaac D ' Israeli ( 1766 – 1848 ) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had " very carefully analyzed the whole " of the latter text.

The closest the Conservatives have ever come to losing this seat was at a by-election in November 1997, at the height of Tony Blair's ' honeymoon period ' as Prime Minister, following the resignation of the previous MP Piers Merchant in a sex scandal.

It was even claimed that Piers only became a Barrister at Law and MP ( for the Wiltshire seat of Devizes, in his family for generations ) through the intervention of his Teddy bear.

An elderly backbench Conservative MP who shared the office with Alan and Piers during the first two series.

She lost her seat at the 1997 general election, following a dispute with local fishermen, but later in the same year was elected MP for Beckenham via a by-election after the resignation of Piers Merchant.

Her first husband, Piers Dixon, formerly represented Truro as the Conservative MP.

Around this time future Tory MP Piers Merchant was a member of the party.

He married Cora Mumby-Croft in 1941 and he had three children: Anne Olivia born in 1942, who married Piers Dixon, Conservative MP for Truro 1970-1974, and son of Sir Pierson Dixon, GCMG, Ambassador to France, 1960-1964.

Recent terms ' speakers of note have included Piers Paul Read on the reality of Hell ; Fr Timothy Finigan on ' Humanae Vitae '; Fr Thomas Weinandy on the Incarnation ; Fr John Saward on the character of Heaven, and, separately, on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ; Fr Aidan Nichols on the centenary of Pope St Pius X's condemnation of Modernism ; Professor Geza Vermes ( in debate with Dom Henry Wansbrough ) on the historicity of the Gospels ; Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP on being a Catholic politician ; Sir Anthony Kenny on the Oxford Movement ; and Baroness Williams of Crosby on the relationship between God and Caesar.

The petition cites one Piers Venables of Aston, Derbyshire, " who having no liflode, ne sufficeante of goodes, gadered and assembled unto him many misdoers, beynge of his clothynge, and, in manere of insurrection, wente into the wodes in that countrie, like as it hadde be Robyn Hude and his meyne.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

This attribution of the poem to Langland rests principally on the evidence of an early-fifteenth-century manuscript of the C-text ( see below ) of Piers held at Trinity College, Dublin ( MS 212 ), which ascribes the work to one man called, ' Willielmus de Langlond ':

With Crowley's editions, the poem followed an existing and subsequently repeated convention of titling the poem The Vision of Piers Pierce Plowman, which is in fact the conventional name of just one section of the poem.

Piers Plowman is considered to be one of the most analytically challenging texts in Middle English textual criticism.

Many texts evoke Piers and / or Ploughmen for reforming purposes: one of the Marprelate tracts claims Piers Plowman for its grandfather.

The few people who mention Piers Plowman before 1700 usually attribute it to someone other than Langland, and often it is unclear if they are referring to Langland's poem or one of the many other texts circulating in print as part of the Piers Plowman tradition, particularly The Ploughman's Tale.

Sometimes " Piers Plowman " was referred to as the author of the poem, and when writers refer to a list of medieval authors, they will often mention Piers Plowman as an author's name or a substitute for one.

The end of Piers Plowman, Passus 15, makes this point at length — but it is also made briefly in one stanza in The Ploughman's Tale ( ll.

He despised the royal favourite, Piers Gaveston, who mocked him as " the Fiddler ", and swore revenge when Gaveston demanded that the King dismiss one of Lancaster's retainers.

He is one of the signatories to Tony Banks ' " Pigeon Bombs " Early Day Motion and Michael Meacher's Climate Change EDM, in stark opposition to his brother, weather forecaster Piers Corbyn's view on climate change.

Piers Merchant worked for some years in various capacities for UKIP, and was at one time political advisor to Roger Knapman during their successful 2004 election ; also, for a short time, he acted as UKIP General Secretary until a suitable individual could be found full time.

Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick ( c. 1272 – 12 August 1315 ) was an English magnate, and one of the principal opponents of King Edward II and his favourite Piers Gaveston.

Ball and perhaps many of the rebels who followed him found some resonance between their ideas and goals and those of Piers Plowman, a key figure in a contemporary poem putatively by one William Langland.

Pier Gerlofs was one of at least four children born to Fokel Sybrants Bonga and Gerlof Piers.

* Charles Piers Egerton Hall who became one of the 50 executed and murdered by the Gestapo on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler on the 30th March 1944 following " The Great Escape "

David was most recently was featured on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as one of the actors who was interviewed for the premiere episode of Season 8, in which Roger Moore was profiled.

He was one of the great nobles offended by the rise of Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston, and helped secure Gaveston's 1308 banishment.