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Hertfordshire

non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in England

8 dated entries naming Hertfordshire, drawn from 8 separate years between 948 CE and 1679 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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10th century

  • 948St Albans School in Hertfordshire is founded by Wulsin, an abbot of St Alban's Abbey, England.source

14th century

  • 1315January 2 – King Edward II of England buries his friend Piers Gaveston (executed 1312) having secured a papal absolution in one of the last acts of Pope Clement V. The burial takes place somewhere near the King's Langley Priory in Hertfordshire, but the location of the tomb is subsequently forgotten. Gaveston had been excommunicated before his death.source
  • 1393September 13 – Sir Walter Devereux, a prominent knight in the English county of Hertfordshire, is dispatched by King Richard II to suppress the Lollards, activists, led by Walter Brut seeking a reformation of the Catholic Church in the county.source

15th century

  • 1413December 4 – By order of King Henry V of England, the remains of King Richard II (whom Henry V's father had overthrown and imprisoned in 1399) are moved from the grounds of King's Langley Priory in Hertfordshire and reinterred at Westminster Abbey, the traditional final resting place of English monarchs.source

16th century

  • 1525August 30 – The French ambassador to England and King Henry VIII sign the Treaty of the More at a castle, "The More", in Hertfordshire.source

17th century

  • 1606July 24 – King Christian IV of Denmark, as the guest of his brother-in-law, King James of England, Scotland and Ireland, is welcomed at London, and the two monarchs are driven by coaches to a banquet at Theobalds House at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. They are entertained by playwright Ben Jonson's play, The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark.source
  • 1613September 29 – The New River is opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.source
  • 1679January 30 – The Orthodox Confession of Faith is drafted up in the Buckinghamshire Assembly and signed by 54 messengers and elders of all Baptist churches in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Oxfordshire, in England.source

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