• The Feast of the Swans was a chivalric celebration of the knighting of 267 men at Westminster Abbey on 22 May 1306. It followed a proclamation by Edward...
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    companion of Edward, before being knighted by the King during the Feast of the Swans in 1306. The King then exiled Gaveston to Gascony in 1307 for reasons...
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  • Robert Scales, 2nd Baron Scales (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    Robert de Scales was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath by Prince Edward whom he accompanied in the Scottish wars and was given an exemption for...
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    The Feast at Swan Goose Gate, also known as the Banquet at Hongmen, Hongmen Banquet, Hongmen Feast and other similar renditions, was a historical event...
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    previously been given to Queen Isabella of France for life. In May 1306, Despenser was knighted at the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey alongside Prince...
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    title. He married in 1285. Roger was born on 25 April 1287, the Feast of Saint Mark, a day of bad omen. He shared this birthday with King Edward II, which...
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    John Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    was the son of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray. Lord of the manors of Tanfield and Well, Yorkshire. De Mowbray served in the Scottish wars of Edward...
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  • John le Blund (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    Blund was Mayor of London, England for eight consecutive years. He was a member of the London Company of Drapers and became an alderman of the city in 1291...
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  • November 1313) was the first Baron Multon of Gilsland. Thomas was the great-great-grandson of Thomas de Moulton (d. 1240) and grandson of Thomas II de Multon...
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    John Harington, 1st Baron Harington (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    moiety of the manor of Furness which had its caput at Aldingham. Muchland was held from the Abbot of Furness Abbey, who held the other moiety of Furness...
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    continued at the coronation feast after the King's return, during which the King largely ignored his new wife in favour of Gaveston. The collective grievances...
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    Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1 May 1285 – 17 November 1326) was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his...
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    John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    as the king's enemy. In January 1322 he was in arms against the king, and attacked and burnt the town of Bridgnorth. He was present at the battle of Boroughbridge...
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    named the Feast of the Swans. From that time onwards he was much engaged in the Scottish wars. John was one of the great nobles offended by the rise of Edward...
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    Baron Mortimer of Chirk (c.1256 – 3 August 1326) was a 14th-century Marcher lord, notable for his opposition to Edward II of England during the Despenser War...
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    William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    to de Monte Acuto ("from the sharp mountain")), was an English peer, and an eminent soldier and courtier during the reigns of Edward I and Edward II. He...
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  • of England holds the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey, knighting his son Edward of Caernarfon, who in turn knighted 266 others. Music for the banquet...
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  • large”. Estate satire Feast of the Swans Froissart Skeltonic verse J. L. Grigsby ed., The Vows of the Heron (1992) J. R. Tanner ed., The Cambridge Medieval...
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    Baron Everingham (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    Feast of the Swans in 1306. Summoned to Parliament by Writ in 1309. Fought in the Anglo-Scottish Wars from 1295 to 1319. Taken prisoner at Battle of Boroughbridge...
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    David Flitwick (died 1353) (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    Flitwick joined Edward I of England in the invasion of Scotland and was made a Knight of the Bath at the Feast of the Swans alongside 266 other men including...
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    William Brabazon (Leics MP 1313) (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
    by Edward, the then Prince of Wales, in the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey on 22 May 1306. Sir William sat in the Parliament of September 1313...
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  • Edward I of England holds the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey, with music involving over 150 minstrels from a number of European countries. The Worcester...
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  • This is a list of Sydney Swans players who have made one or more appearance in the Australian Football League, known as the Victorian Football League until...
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    After the feast, the King has two swans brought in and swears "before God and the swans" to avenge the murder of John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, the desecration...
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    as a means of removing him from the government. At the sumptuous College Feast complete with swan and an entire roasted ox, Sir Godber, egged on by his...
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  • After the feast, the King has two swans brought in and swears "before God and the swans" to avenge the murder of John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, the desecration...
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    reported that his black swans even allowed the female white swan Juno to visit the upper lake as long as she behaved. The black swans mated, as did their...
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    Stephen; Birsel, Robert; Fletcher, Philippa (1 February 2021). Feast, Lincoln; MacSwan, Angus; McCool, Grant (eds.). "Myanmar military seizes power, detains...
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  • Simon Feast (born 1 December 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL) and...
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  • May 1306 by King Edward I. The knighting ceremony took place in Westminster Abbey and was known as the Feast of the Swan as all those present made their...
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