For anyone who, like me, is interested in the Mortimer Earls of March (who so nearly ascended to the throne after Richard II), there is a newish blog that is very informative. Instead we had the first of the Lancastrian kings. Yet again I find myself thinking, “If only…”
Anyway, here are links. https://themortimersblog.wordpress.com/ and also on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheMortimersofWigmore/?fref=ts
I am relishing the goodies that are flowing from this site.
I liked the reference to Henry IV having the Glastonbury Chronicle destroyed because it supported the Mortimer claim. Too bad he missed the Westminster Chronicle – or is it significant that that one stops in 1394?
Massive rogue Henry IV, but for some strange reason he gets a good press.
[…] (near Hay-on-Wye). It therefore came to the York family as part of their inheritance from the Mortimers, who had themselves inherited Clifford […]
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[…] isn’t often that I like a new coin, but the addition of the White Lion of Mortimer to the Queen’s Beasts series is an exception. It’s beautiful. To read about it go […]
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