A Noble Way to Go: Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers, 1100-1900

by Robert Dunning

Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experience dramatic and gruesome deaths and certainly more likely to have them recorded. This study, drawing on the pages of 'The Complete Peerage', describes some 7,000 such deaths, revealing when, where and how they occurred and how they were commemorated. In the Middle Ages, war, execution, imprisonment, plague,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781557136
• ISBN13: 9781781557136
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"