Here is an interesting article on York Minster with some stunning photographs.
My Ricardian friends will find it easy to picture King Richard, Queen Anne and their small son, Edward, emerging through the massive doorway and pausing for a short while on the steps, following the glorious ceremony where Edward was invested as Prince of Wales, before commencing their walk, in state procession, from the Minster with the crowned Queen holding Edward’s hand. What a glorious day for York that was!
[…] York Minster: Wherefore King Richard magnified and applauded by the north nation and also to show himself appearing before them in royal habit and sceptre in laude and diadem on his head, made proclamation that all people should resort to York, on the day of ascension of our Lord, where all men should both behold and see him, his queen and prince in their high estates and degrees, and also for their good will, should receive many thanks, large benefits and munificent rewards. At the day appointed, the whole clergy assembled in copes richly revested and so with a reverent ceremony went about the city in procession; after whom followed the king with his crown and sceptre, appeared in his circot robe royal accompanied with no small number of the nobility of his realm: after whom marched in order queen Anne his wife, likewise crowned leading on her left hand prince Edward her son having on his head a demi crown appointed for the degree of a prince. The king was held in that triumph in such honour and the common people of the North so rejoyed that they extolled and praised him far above the stars.” […]
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[…] site of particular interest is Common Hall Lane in York, which runs alongside the 14th c Guildhall, a place Richard would have known well. Both the hall […]
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[…] went on for her to marry Alexander II of Scotland. On June 21, 1221, the couple were married at York Minster–the bride was only eleven and the groom […]
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[…] “….Now and again strange finds hit the news. The English Wars of the Roses between the royal houses of York and Lancaster ended at the battle of Bosworth Field in England, in 1485. King Richard III of the house of York (white rose) was killed by Henry Tudor, Duke of Lancaster soon to be King Henry VII (red rose). Richard’s body was not found on the battlefield, a fact that upset the Yorkists for centuries. In 2012 a parking lot was being expanded in the town of Leicester near to the historic battle site. As excavation was being done to prepare for the new expansion a shallow grave was found containing the remains of what was later scientifically determined to be King Richard, hastily buried probably by Henry’s departing soldiers, in what was, in 1485, a Franciscan friary. How many layers of history are here under a parking lot? As a Yorkist, I am happy to say that Richard III has now found rest in York Minster….” […]
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