A Noble Way to Go

A Noble Way to Go Deaths of English, Scots and Irish Peers, 1100-1900 Author:Robert Dunning Language:English Format:Softcover Dimensions:6.15" x 9.25" Pages:144 Photos:B&W Publisher:Fonthill Media ISBN:9781781557136 Item No. 9781781557136 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, poison and sheer misfortune brought an end to many noble lives. In the sixteenth century wars, executions and murders continued to take their toll alongside ‘affrays’ or ‘skirmishes’ so often blamed for deaths in Scotland and I