Around that time, Robert Stillington, the bishop of Bath and Wells, informed Richard that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to an earlier union by the King with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V and his siblings illegitimate.

Clarence had rebelled against his brother Edward IV and been " privately " executed for treason ; there has been speculation that Clarence may have learned about Edward's pre-contract from Stillington while in the Tower.

Tudor historians named Elizabeth Lucy ( also known as Elizabeth Wayte ) as the woman Stillington testified he had married to Edward.

After Edward's death in April 1483, Stillington was a member of the council of the boy-king Edward V. Some time in June, he divulged to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the Lord Protector, that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to Edward's earlier betrothal to Lady Eleanor Talbot.

After Henry VII defeated Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, he immediately had Stillington imprisoned again.

Robert Stillington, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, testified that Edward IV had agreed to marry Lady Eleanor Talbot in 1461.

Lady Eleanor Butler ( a young widow, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ) and Edward were alleged to have been precontracted ; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman ( named only by Philippe de Commines as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells ), claimed to have carried out the ceremony.

One source, the Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines, claims that Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, carried out the ceremony between Edward and Eleanor.

Robert Stillington ( 1420 – May 1491 ) was Bishop of Bath and Wells ( 1465 – 1491 ) and a courtier under Edward IV of England.

In 1478, Stillington spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence.

Stillington Hall is a mansion on the west side of the Foss and adjoining the village of the same name.

The niece turns out to be Daphne Stillington, who recites the same Shelley poem with which he bade her farewell in Act I. Joanna flounces out from the spare room, Daphne faints with horror, Roland is entranced, and Garry is apoplectic.

In 1743, he was presented to the neighbouring living of Stillington by Rev.

Richard Levett, Prebendary of Stillington, who was patron of the living.

Meanwhile, Richard III made plans to marry her to an unimportant naval officer, a son of Robert Stillington.

According to the French political analyst, Philippe de Commines — the only person who identifies him — this priest was Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

For part of its way it runs close to the B1363 between Brandsby and Stillington.

* Road Bridge on Mill Lane near Stillington.

Stillington was Archdeacon of Taunton ( 1450-1465 ) and Archdeacon of Berkshire ( 1464-1465 ) when he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1460 to 1467.

Stillington was selected as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465, and was consecrated on 16 March 1466.

Daphne Stillington, a young admirer of the actor Garry Essendine, has inveigled herself into the flat and has spent the night there.

Old Stillington is a village in County Durham, in England.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

He thought of Simms Purdew, who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield, a maniacal scream on his lips, and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

By 1907 the number of undergraduates had risen to 1,107.

A Byzantine nobleman, he had risen to the court position of protovestiarios by the time of the Fourth Crusade.

The Danes, heavily outnumbered, would have been wiped out if the tide had not risen.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

Carnegie strongly believed in this because he had risen from the bottom.

By 1964, membership had risen to 80, 000, and the ACLU was directly involved in a major expansion of civil liberties.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

The Emperor had risen early to begin prayers for divine guidance when spies from Ras Alula, his chief military advisor, brought him news that the Italians were advancing.

By early 1973, inflation had risen 800 % under Allende's presidency.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 47, 979, and the median income for a family was $ 59, 423 ( these figures had risen to $ 58, 457 and $ 79, 533 respectively ).

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

The Flavians, who had risen to prominence under Claudius, took a different tack.

A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.

By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of major.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

At the same time Vitellius and his armies in Germania had risen in revolt, and prepared to march on Rome, intent on overthrowing Otho.