Trying to preserve her youth, Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, died from drinking gold.
In 1189, King Henry II of England, the first of the Plantagenets, died and was succeeded by Richard I.
The Guild has been held every 20 years since King Henry II granted Preston market town status in 1179.
You make the comparison to the mistress of French King Henry II.
In 1170, Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting on the orders of England's King Henry II.
Caterina married the future Henry II in 1533, when both were 14.
The first Plantagenet king of England, Henry II, is important to contemporary small business owners because he founded the legal system that paved the way for modern entrepreneurship.
It stands close to the site where 200 Welshmen, led by the king of north Wales Owain Gwynedd, ambushed - and nearly killed - King Henry II in 1157.
The Preston Guild dates back to 1179 when King Henry II granted the town the right to have a Guild Merchant and gave the town its first royal charter.
Wine has been made in Bordeaux since the time of the Romans, although it was an exclusively domestic product for the first 1, 000-plus years, until Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine and exports of Bordeaux to England began.
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The weathered, silvery stone ruins scattered across the grassy, 158m-high Hill of Slane today include a foundational outline of a church, a round tower and a monastery associated with St Erc, and a later Norman motte and bailey on the hill's western side, built by Archembald Fleming, who came to Ireland with Henry II in 1171.
You don't have to believe that legend, but Henry Plantagenet, later Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Lionhearted, did, and he came here to pray to the Black Madonna that still looks down on those who come to the little chapel by the tomb where the hermit's body was found.
Beebe, K-Tron's chairman at the time, who had spent 28 years as Henry Ford II's adviser.
Henry Ford II's success in revitalising his family's firm after the second world war depended largely on his reorganisation of the company.
But Ford's chief, Henry Ford II, was incensed at the initial failure of the car that bore his father's name, and the Edsel division was destroyed.
Two executives behind the Mustang, Lee Iacocca and Hal Sperlich, later were fired by Ford CEO Henry Ford II and wound up at Chrysler, which in 1980 was saved by America's first automotive bailout.
Ford officials say no one wants to see the automaker turn around more than Bill Ford, who is the first family member to run the company since his uncle, Henry Ford II, retired in 1979.
It's somewhat reminiscent of Henry Ford II's famous Whiz Kids--people like Robert S. McNamara and Arjay Miller, who were brought in from the U.S. military after World War II to turn around a company then in dire shape.
Lee Iacocca drove Henry Ford II nuts at Ford, but his track record of success at Ford included the legendary Mustang, and when he was fired and then made CEO at Chrysler, he implemented ideas that Ford had rejected chief among them, the minivan.
To help pay the increase the Lord Chamberlain's Men had to do something theater companies usually were loath to: They sold publication rights to four of their most popular plays, all by Shakespeare--Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV and Love's Labour's Lost.
Henry Young, a Type II diabetic, got to significantly cut back on his insulin injections.
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