anniversaries
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Coventry’s history and buildings are very well served and illustrated in this article. I think the city is very well worth visiting and has a lot to offer.
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Updated version of this post on Sparkypus.com Aveline de Forz an Early Plantagenet Bride – her tomb in Westminster Abbey Aveline de Forz tomb and effgy. One of the earliest tombs in Westminster Abbey. On this day, 10 November, 1274, died Aveline de Forz, Countess of Lancaster and Edmund ‘Crouchback’ Plantagenet’s first wife. Aveline was…
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We can recommend this piece, by Professor David Gill of the University of Suffolk, with several superb images of the original burial sites of the first two Howard Dukes of Norfolk. Both were probably transferred to St. Michael’s Church, Framlingham, at the Reformation
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Jack Cade and the Mortimer connection….
battles, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edmund Mortimer, Henry VI, Ireland, Jack Cade, John Bailey, Lionel of Antwerp, Llewellyn Fawr, London Bridge, Margaret of Anjou, mortimer claim, Mortimers, Owain Glyndwr, Phillipa of Ulster, rebellion, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, The London Stone, William of WaynfleteIn the summer of 1450, Richard, 3rd Duke of York, threw in his appointments in Ireland to return to England to assert his rights as heir to the throne of the inept Lancastrian king, Henry VI. The ensuing confrontation with poor Henry, who really was too gentle to be king, led to Parliament being called…
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The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate and the Ladies of the Minories
Agnes Countess of Pembroke, Aldgate, Anne Montgomery, Anne Mowbray, Blanche of Navarre, Dame Elizabeth Savage, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Edward IV, Eleanor Scrope, Elizabeth brackenbury, Elizabeth de Clare, Elizabeth de la Pole, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Plague, Henry VIII, Isabel of Wodstock, Jane Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Margaret Stafford, Mary Tyrrell, Minories, Mowbray estates, nuns, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Sir James TyrrellAnne Montgomery nee Darcy. One of the much respected Ladies of the Minories from the window of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Shakespeare said ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’. Following on from that if we may be allowed to say that the Wars of the Roses were…
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Today in 1558, Alice Driver and Alexander Gooch were burned on the Cornhill in Ipswich. Her trial record, particularly her testimony, shows that Alice Driver freely admitted not sharing certain Roman Catholic beliefs and this was sufficient to convict her. Both are commemorated on this monument in Christchurch Park (left) and Driver by a road…
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I endeavoured to include a link to the following article, but it was far too long, and the resultant Tinyurl simply would not transfer. Very strange. One might almost say devilishly so! Anyway, I do hope Tara MacIsaac will not mind that I include the article in full, because I gladly acknowledge her work Devil’s Hoofprints Spotted…
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Significant opportunities missed?
Archbishop Cranmer, attainder, Bath and Wells, bigamy, Bishops, books, David Baldwin, deprival, Durham, Edward IV, Edward V, Ely, Exeter, exile, Gairdner, Hugh Pavy, John Morton, John Shirwood, Lionel Woodville, Peter Courtenay, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Salisbury, St. David’s, Thomas Langton, Thomas Wolsey, Three Estates, treason, William DudleyRobert Stillington is likely to have been born in about 1420 and was consecrated as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465. As we know, in spring 1483, he confessed his knowledge of Edward IV’s bigamy. Based on Stillington’s evidence, the Three Estates voted to cancel the coronation of Edward V, inviting Richard…
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The precise location of the 937 battle of Burnaburh, at which Athelstan reasserted the authority of the House of Wessex over Viking, Scottish and Welsh forces has not been conclusively determined yet and nor has the anniversary, although it could not have been before Vikings crossed the Irish Sea in August. What we do know…
