This Day in History

[annis]

7 September, 1191.
During the Third Crusade Richard I of England defeats Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf.

[Susan]

September 8 in royal history:

September 8, 1157 - Birth of Richard I at Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England

September 8, 1397 - Death of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III, at the Prince's Inn, Calais, France; buried at the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Pleshy, England, later reburied at Westminster Abbey

September 8, 1560 - Suspicious death of Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's favorite

September 8, 1800 - Death of Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

September 8, 1831 - Coronation of William IV
William’s wife Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was crowned with him.

[M.M. Bennetts]

This day in history 198 years ago, the French Grande Armee having declared the Battle of Borodino (yesterday) to have been a great triumph, awoke to discover that the Russian army had decamped during the night.

[Susan]

September 9 in royal history:

September 9, 1000 – Death of Olaf I of Norway

September 9, 1087 - Death of William I (the Conqueror) at Hermentrube, Rouen, France; his son William II Rufus becomes king, buried at St. Stephen Abbey, Caen, Normandy, France

September 9, 1342 - Wedding of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III, and Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, at the Tower of London

September 9, 1513 - Death of James IV of Scotland at the Battle of Flodden Field; a body, thought to be his, lay unburied in Sheen Abbey, Surrey and was lost during the Reformation

September 9, 1700 – Birth of Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, wife of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

September 9, 1826 – Birth of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden

September 9, 1882 - Birth of Henry Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, husband of Mary, Princess Royal

September 9, 2000 - Birth of Victoria de Marichalar, daughter of Infanta Elena of Spain

[Susan]

September 10 in royal history:

September 10, 1167 - Death of Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I, mother of Henry II, at the Abbey of Notre Dame des Prés, Rouen; buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France

September 10, 1547 – Birth of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

September 10, 1638 – Birth of Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France

September 10, 1669 – Death of Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I, at Château St. Colombes, Paris, France; buried at St. Denis Basilica, near Paris

September 10, 1898 – Stabbing death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz Josef, at Geneva, Switzerland; buried in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna

September 10, 1948 - Death of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in exile at Coburg, Germany; buried at St. Augustin's Roman Catholic Church, Coburg

September 10, 2006 – Death of King Taufa’ahau Tupou of Tonga at Mercy Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand; buried at Mala’e Kula, Nuku’alofa, Tonga

[Susan]

September 11 in royal history:

September 11, 1297 - William Wallace, leader of the Scots' resistance, defeats the English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge

September 11, 1349 – Death of Bonne of Luxembourg, first wife of the future John II of France, of the bubonic plague in Maubisson, France; buried at the Maubuisson Abbey

September 11, 1822 – Birth of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, wife of Charles I of Württemberg

September 11, 1937 - Birth of Paola Ruffo di Calabria, wife of Albert II of Belgium

September 11, 1966 - Birth of Kawashima Kiko, wife of Prince Akishino of Japan

[Susan]

September 12 in royal history:

September 12, 1348 - Death of Jeanne de Bourgogne (the Lame), first wife of Philip VI of France, at Paris; buried at the Basilica of Saint Denis

September 12, 1369 – Death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, mother of Henry IV, of the plague at Bolingbroke Castle, Lindsey; buried at St Paul's Cathedral

September 12, 1494 - Birth of Francis I of France

September 12, 1612 – Death of Tsar Vasili IV of Russia

September 12, 1683 - Death of Afonso VI of Portugal at Royal Palace of Cintra; buried at Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

September 12, 1739 – Death of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

September 12, 1837 - Birth of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, husband of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

September 12, 1917 – Death of Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, second wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, at Euxinograd Palace, near Varna, Bulgaria; buried in the cemetery at Boyana Church, near Sofia

September 12, 1938 – Death of Prince Arthur of Connaught, grandson of Queen Victoria, at 41 Belgrave Square, London; buried at Frogmore, Windsor

[Susan]

September 13 in royal history:

September 13, 1410 – Death of Isabella of Valois, second wife of Richard II, at Château de Blois, France, buried at the Church of the Celestines, Paris

September 13, 1598 – Death of Philip II of Spain at El Escorial; buried at El Escorial

September 13, 1612 – Death of Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden, in Finland; buried at the Cathedral of Turku, Finland

September 13, 1940 - German bombs fall on Buckingham Palace while George VI is in residence
This is when the late Queen Mother said, "Now we can look the East End in the face."

[Susan]

September 14 in royal history:

September 14, 1336 - Death of John of Eltham, Duke of Cornwall, son of Edward II, at Perth, Scotland, buried in Westminster Abbey

September 14, 1435 - Death of John, Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV, at Joyeux Repos, Rouen, Normandy, buried at Rouen Cathedral, Rouen

September 14, 1495 - Death of Elizabeth of York, daughter of Henry VII, at Eltham Palace, Kent, buried at Westminster Abbey

September 14, 1667 - Birth of Edgar, Duke of Cambridge, son of James II, at St. James Palace, London, England

September 14, 1928 - Birth of The Honorable Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent

September 14, 1982 - Death of Princess Grace of Monaco at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo, Monaco; buried at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco

[Susan]

September 15 in royal history:

September 15, 1666 – Birth of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, wife of George, Duke of Brunwick-Lüneburg (later George I), at Celle Castle, Germany

September 15, 1864 – Birth of Prince Sigismund of Prussia, grandson of Queen Victoria, at Neues Palais in Potsdam, Germany
Prince Sigismund was the son of Victoria, Prince Royal and Kaiser Frederick III of Germany. He died at age two from meningitis.

September 15, 1904 – Birth of King Umberto II of Italy

September 15, 1972 – Birth of Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, wife of Felipe, the Prince of Asturias

September 15, 1973 - Death of Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden at Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden; buried at the royal burial grounds in Haga

September 15, 1973 - Birth of Daniel Westling, husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

September 15, 1984 - Birth of Prince Harry at St. Mary's Hospital, London