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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
The Warwick Pageant
The success of the Sherborne Pageant attracted a good deal of notice, particularly in places with claims to long or illustrious histories. One of these places was the town of Warwick, site of an im...
The Kenilworth Castle Pageant
The Kenilworth Castle Pageant was another landmark pageantry event in Warwickshire, following the Warwick pageants of 1906 and 1930. Despite being billed as a ‘Kenilworth’ pageant, it depended on v...
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant of 1907 was a major event, successful both in financial outcome and the vagaries of public opinion. Staged in July, it was an archetypal expression of Edwardian pageantr...

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Author: Parker, Louis Napoleon
Author: Shakespeare, William

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1 Warwick, Warwickshire, England
1 Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
1 Dover, Kent, England
1 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

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3 town
1 county:

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3 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Parker, Anthony

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4 Shakespeare, William
4 Parker, Louis Napoleon
2 Rhoades, James
2 Marlowe, Christopher
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Thomas, Miss L.E.
1 Ogilvie, G. Stuart
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Hicks, Edward
1 Geddes, H.R.

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2 Rhoades, James
2 Parker, Louis Napoleon
2 Blackall, Allen K.
1 Wagner, Richard
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tidnam, J. Edis
1 Taylor, H.J.
1 Shann, C.J.H.
1 Morley, Felix W.
1 Keeling, Rev. W.T.
1 Haworth, Mr J.
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 Ganz, C.J.W.
1 Clark, Owen. A.
1 Benet, John
1 Barker, Horace
1 Arne, Thomas
1 Ahrons, Miss

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 Historical Figure

Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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3 Elizabeth I
2 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
2 Stafford, Humphrey, first duke of Buckingham
2 Shakespeare, William
2 Mortimer, Roger
2 Montagu, Thomas [Thomas de Montacute], fourth earl of Salisbury
2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 John
2 Isabella [Isabella of France]
2 Henry V
2 Fitzwalter, Robert
2 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
2 Edward I
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
2 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
2 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Wingfield, Sir Anthony
1 William III and II
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Vescy, John de
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Valence, Aymer de, eleventh earl of Pembroke
1 Tresham, Sir Thomas
1 Stigand
1 Stanley, Sir John
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney, Sir Henry
1 Shuckburgh, Sir Richard
1 Seymour, Edward, first earl of Hertford
1 Samson
1 Roger, second earl of Warwick
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Richard of York, third duke of York
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Radcliffe, Thomas, third earl of Sussex
1 Pole, William de la, first duke of Suffolk
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Ottobuono [Ottobuono or Ottobono Fieschi; later Adrian V]
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Montfort, Sir Simon de, the younger
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Mary I
1 Mary
1 Mandeville, Geoffrey de, first earl of Essex
1 Maltravers [Mautravers], John, first Lord Maltravers
1 Lydgate, John
1 Louis XI
1 Lee, Sir Henry
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Kitson, Sir Thomas
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 John de Beauchamp
1 John Shakespeare
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Howard, William, first Baron Howard of Effingham
1 Holland [Holand], John, first duke of Exeter [Earl of Huntingdon]
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hastings, Sir Henry
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Giffard, Walter
1 Gaveston, Piers, earl of Cornwall
1 Fordham, John
1 Eustace
1 Eleanor, countess of Pembroke and Leicester
1 Eleanor [née Eleanor Cobham]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward [Edward of Langley, Edward of York], second duke of York
1 Edward IV
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback], first earl of Lancaster and first earl of Leicester
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Edmund [Edmund of Woodstock], first earl of Kent
1 Dyfrig [St Dyfrig, Dubricius]
1 Dudley, Ambrose, earl of Warwick
1 Curteys, William
1 Cunobelinus [Cymbeline]
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Clinton, Geoffrey of
1 Clare, Gilbert de, eighth earl of Gloucester and seventh earl of Hertford
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles VI
1 Charles V
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Cecil, Thomas, first earl of Exeter
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Brooke [Cobham], Sir Henry
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Brakelond, Jocelin of
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Bohun, Humphrey
1 Bigod, Roger
1 Beaumont [Newburgh], Henry de, first earl of Warwick
1 Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England]
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Beauchamp, Guy de, tenth earl of Warwick
1 Baldwin
1 Asserio, Rigaud de
1 Arthur
1 Adminius [Amminius]
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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