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The Palace of Placentia
The Palace of Placentia, after a 17th-century drawing

The Palace of Placentia was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1447, in Greenwich, on the banks of the River Thames, downstream from London. It was the place of the birth of Elizabeth I in 1533. The Palace was demolished in the seventeenth century .



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  • An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich (1789) (14786307743)

    The Palace of Placentia, after it was rebuilt around 1500 by Henry VII

  • Greenwich PalaceGentlemen'sMagazine1840

    A sketch of Greenwich Palace, published in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1840 (earlier published by W. Bristow in 1797)

  • Placentia - geograph.org.uk - 1154521

    Historic marker on the site of the former palace

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