anniversaries

Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 Loyalty Lineage and Leadership by Hazel Pierce.

May 27, 2017

anniversaries, Book Reviews, religion

Anne Boleyn, book review, Christchurch Priory, Earl of Southampton, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Human Shredder, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Richard Pole, St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, Warblington Castle

Those looking for an in-depth assessment of the life of Margaret Pole need look no further. Hazel Pierce has more than adequately supplied it in her biography of Margaret – Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 Loyalty Lineage and Leadership. Covering Margaret’s life from early childhood – orphaned at five years old, Margaret’s earlier needs…
A Yorkist chronicler under Henry VII’s nose?

May 21, 2017

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

Battle of Bosworth, diplomacy, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Flodden, Gairdner, George Duke of Clarence, Hearne’s Fragment, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Human Shredder, James IV, Louis XII, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary “Tudor”, Richard III, sources, Thomas Howard, trials

“Hearne’s Fragment” is a relatively little-known source on late fifteenth century England. It is mysterious in origin, missing in part and not entirely accurate in detail, perhaps using old-style years? To begin with, it gives Edward IV’s birth year as 1440 and errs in those of his brothers as well, although there is another possible…
Towton, 29th March 1461: The Bloodiest Battle in English History?

May 14, 2017

anniversaries

ambush, Andrew Boardman, archaeology, battles, blizzard, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, George Goodwin, Henry VI, James Ross, John Baron Neville, Lord Clifford, Margaret of Anjou, Richard Duke of York, Towton, University of Bradford, Wakefield, York

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Towton is regarded by many historians as the worst battle to ever be fought on English soil in terms of the number of combatants, casualty figures, conditions on the day and treatment of those captured during the rout. It is always extremely difficult to gauge the reality of the medieval…
A well-connected Archdeacon?

May 8, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

Archdeacons, Barrington Hall, Barringtons, Blythburgh, Cecily Duchess of York, Gatehouses, genealogy, Hatfield Broadoak, Ipswich, Sir Thomas Barrington, Staffords, Suffolk, Thomas Bourchier, William Pykenham, wills, Winifred Pole

As we said last year, late mediaeval prelates were often well-connected. Indeed, as this ODNB article shows, William Pykenham, Archdeacon of Suffolk, died some time in spring 1497, approximately sixty years after his father. His mother was Katherine Barrington, of the prominent Hatfield Broadoak family, which explains some of his appointments through her Bourchier and Stafford…
At the gates of Gloucester in 1471….

May 3, 2017

anniversaries, battles, travel

Bristol, Civil War, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Gloucester, Gloucester Castle, John Speed, Lancastrians, Margaret of Anjou, Severn, sieges, Sir Richard Beauchamp, Tewkesbury, Upton-on-Severn

The Battle of Tewkesbury in May 1471 was to prove decisive for the reign of our first Yorkist king. The opponents were Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrians, versus King Edward IV and the Yorkists. Margaret was defeated, and her heart and spirit was broken by the death in battle of her only son, Edward of…
Annette Carson: in sympathy with King Richard

Apr 30, 2017

anniversaries, Book Reviews

Annette Carson, e-books, Elizabeth of York, evidence, George Buck, Henry VII, interviews, Joanna, Kincaid, Paul Murray Kendall, Polydore Vergil, Portugal, Ricardians, Richard III, Shakespeare, sources, The Maligned King, Tower of London

To the delight of travelers across the globe, tired of lugging all those hard-copy books on planes, trains and automobiles, Annette Carson’s Richard III The Maligned King has just been released in ebook form and can now be purchased on Amazon.com. Along with John Ashdown-Hill, Carson is part of a new generation of historians who…
Was Henry Vll mean? His funeral – and other – Expenses.

Apr 21, 2017

anniversaries

Anne, avarice, Charles I, dancing, Elizabeth of York, Excerpta Historica, funeral effigy, gambling, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Mark Duffy, royal tombs, Royal tombs of Mediaeval England, Samuel Bentley, St. george’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/19/was-henry-vii-mean-his-funeral-and-other-expenses/ Effigies of Henry Vll and Elizabeth of York by Torrigiano Henry died on 21 April 1509. Henry has come down through history as something of a miser, a tightwad. Whether this is undeserved or otherwise , I do not know, although his Privy Purse Expenses make very…
Those accident-prone Stewarts

Mar 27, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

accidents, assassination, battles, cannon, executions, exile, Flodden, James I, James II, James III, James IV, James V, Joan “Beaufort”, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary Stuart, Perth, rebellion, Richard III, Roxburgh, Sauchieburn, Scotland, Solway Moss, Stewarts

As this excellent article reminds us, there were eight pre-union Stewart monarchs, or nine if you exclude James VI, who had already reigned in Scotland for nearly forty years before inheriting the English throne. Of these, excepting the two Roberts, only two turned up for a pitched battle with against an English army and only…
Richard III’s Book of Hours – Digitized, Online and Available to All

Mar 26, 2017

anniversaries, Book Reviews, Science

Anne Sutton, Book of Hours, digitised books, Heritage Lottery Fund, Leicester cathedral, Leicester University, Livia Visser-Fuchs, reburial, Reformation, Richard III, saints

“I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. ~Peggy Noonan Leicester Cathedral and its project supporters (angels?) have done something wonderful and generous: they have digitized Richard III’s “Book of Hours” and posted it on the cathedral’s website. What’s so…
QUEEN ANNE NEVILL – HER BURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Mar 25, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

Anne Neville, Anne of Cleves, burials, Crowland Chronicle, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Chronicle, Isabel Neville, John Stow, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, WE Hampton, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://wordpress.com/post/sparkypus.com/449 Queen Anne Neville from the Salisbury Roll. Anne’s mantle equates her ancestorial arms with those of England and France. After Anne Neville’s death on the 16th March 1485 , she was given a magnificent funeral in Westminster Abbey ‘with honours no less than…