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Is Francis Lovell lying at rest in Gedling church….?

Jul 16, 2017

anniversaries, battles, buildings

Fiskerton, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gedling, Stoke Bardolph Church, Stoke Field, Trent

There is a theory that Francis Lovell, on fleeing the battlefield at East Stoke in 1487, met with some mishap and ended up buried in the Church of All Hallows, Gedling in Nottinghamshire. Stoke Bardolph Castle (now gone) not far from Gedling, was the seat of the Bardolph family, of whom his mother, Jane, was…
When the English ruled the Bastille….!

Jul 14, 2017

anniversaries, battles, buildings

Bastille, Burgundians, Charles V, Charles VI, Charles VII, defensive structures, France, French Revolution, Henry V, Hundred Years War, Jean II, Paris, Poitiers, Seine

Historical reconstruction showing the moat below the walls of Paris (left), the Bastille and the Porte Saint-Antoine (right) in 1420 We all know about the storming of the Bastille on 14th July, 1789, resulting in the continued annual celebration of the occasion throughout France. But the Bastille was a medieval fortress, and we, the English,…
The puzzle of George of Clarence’s Calais wedding….

Jul 11, 2017

anniversaries, sources

Calais, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, grants, Isabel Neville, Jehan de Wavrin, Kenilworth, Kristie Davis Dean, marriages, Notre Dame, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sandeman

The only certain thing that can be said of the marriage of George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, is that it took place in Calais. Oh, and that Isabel’s uncle, the Archbishop of York, performed the ceremony. After that, the picture is a little blurred. Which day? Which…
The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone

Jul 7, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

Coronation, Edinburgh Castle, Edward I, Edward V, Edward VIII, John Major, Mary II, Scotland, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Edward’s chair, Stone of Scone, stonemasons, Victoria, Westminster Abbey, Westminster School

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/26/the-coronation-chair-and-stone-of-scone/ As we reminded you yesterday, Richard and Anne were crowned on the 6th July 1483, a crucial part of the ceremony being when Richard was crowned with St Edward’s crown and invested with the royal regalia while sitting on the Coronation chair also known as St Edward’s chair,…
The Coronation Feast of King Richard III and his Queen

Jul 6, 2017

anniversaries

Anne Sutton, Coronation, Crown of Queen Edith, Crown of St. Edward, Food, Henry of Buckingham, Palace of Westminster, Peter Hammond, Richard III, Rous Roll, Sir Robert Dimmoke

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/16/the-coronation-feast-of-king-richard-lll-and-his-queen Westminster Hall venue of the King Richard lll and Queen Anne Neville’s Coronation Feast. Queen Anne and King Richard from the Rous Roll. Anne is wearing the Crown of Queen Edith and Richard wears the Crown of St Edward. And so dear reader, Richard and Anne were…
A simple statement of fact …

Jun 30, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

bigamy, Blore Heath, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, illegitimacy, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Sudeley Castle, Thomas Butler

… as shown at Sudeley Castle.
Another eleventh century struggle

Jun 26, 2017

anniversaries, archaeology, travel

Alan the Black, Anglo-Saxons, Appledore, Battle of Hastings, battles, Bideford, Bloody Corner, Brian of Brittany, Devon, Diarmait, Edgar the Atheling, Edmund son of Harold, genealogy, Godwine son of Harold, Gytha, Harold II, Harrying of the North, Ireland, Malcolm III, Margaret of Wessex, Normans, Northam, resistance, Richard III, Scotland

This article reveals the little-known sequel to the battle of Hastings. It took place in North Devon, between Appledore and Northam near Bideford, on 26 June 1069 and was led by Brian of Brittany and Alan the Black for the Normans against Godwine and Edmund, sons of Harold II, for the Anglo-Saxon “resistance”. The result…
Was Roland de Velville the son of Henry VII….?

Jun 25, 2017

anniversaries, genealogy

“Beauforts”, Agnes Griffith, Anglesey, bardic tradition, Battle of Bosworth, Beaumaris Castle, bigamy, Blackheath, Breton expedition 1489, Brittany, Catherine de Valois, Catherine of Berain, Daffyd Alaw, dispensations, DNA, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Gwynedd, hawking, Henry V, Henry VII, Henry VIII, hunting, Owain Tudor, Roland de Roncevaux, Roland de Velville, royal marriages, secret marriage, Sir John Cheney, Sir Robert Willoughby

The following article is necessarily filled with supposition, inference and sneaking suspicion. The result of smoke and mirrors, you ask? Well, I think it is all much more substantial than that, as I hope to explain in the coming paragraphs. Today (25th June) in 1545, died a man by the name of Roland de Velville…
Jack of Lincoln, be not bold….?

Jun 16, 2017

anniversaries, battles

“Tudors”, executions, Henry VII, John Earl of Lincoln, Stoke Field

We all know the couplet that was supposedly pinned to the Duke of Norfolk’s tent on the eve of Bosworth. Well, it could as easily be applied to John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. Jack of Lincoln, be not bold, for Dickon, thine uncle, is bought and sold. Lincoln could have taken the simple…
CARDINAL JOHN MORTON’S TOMB CHAPEL OF LADY UNDERCROFT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.

Jun 13, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

AF Pollard, Brecknock, Canterbury Cathedral, Cardinal, cenotaphs, Collyweston, Ely, Henry of Buckingham, heraldry, John Morton, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Latin, Leicester cathedral, Lord Chancellor, Morton’s Fork, portcullis, rebus, Richard III, Rose, Stonyhurst College, Thomas More, tombs, WE Hampton

Updated post @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/03/cardinal-john-mortons-tomb-in-the-chapel-of-lady-undercroft-canterbury-cathedral/ On Friday 13th June 1483 Cardinal Morton, along with others, was arrested at the Tower of London. It is well documented the role Morton played in the downfall of Richard lll. Morton was Richard’s arch enemy and his deviousness, cunning and powers of manipulation being well…