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# Savoy Court Standing at Savoy Court, you're standing where one of medieval Europe's most magnificent palaces once rose from the banks of the Thames—a transformation that began in 1246 when Henry III granted this strategic riverside land to Peter, Count of Savoy and Earl of Richmond. Peter seized ...

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Within these precincts stood the Palace of Savoy, the erection of which was begun by Peter, ninth Count of Savoy and Earl of Richmond, A.D 1246. Henry III King of England bestowed the site "in vico qui vocato la straunde" on February 12th 1246 and there was erected a palace, "the fayrest mannor in Europe" big enough for a large part of an army