anniversaries
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This post has nothing to do with present-day politics or the recent attempt of the life of a former US President. It’s about the word assassination, and whether or not it applies to two of our medieval monarchs. It was prompted by this link: US and World: Latest US and World News | Times of…
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I can’t say that I am very well up on Alfred the Great. The closest I’ve come to his “history” is the Blowing Stone Blowing Stone on the hill at Kingston Lisle. The sound it makes can be heard over a long distance, and according to a legend, in 871AD, when the Danish army approached…
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Well, now the General Election is over and done with, and regardless of the result, something about the whole business caught my attention. Muchelney Abbey in Somerset was a polling station! Can you imagine it? Not your usual school or village hall, but an exquisite medieval abbey said to have been founded by King Athelstan!…
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As I write my failure to find anything online about a particular event, apart from someone’s FB page, leads me to hesitate. But let’s assume it IS what’s happening…. It ‘s said that art galleries are suddenly declining to display the above portrait of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and the boy Edward VI (who died…
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Poetry, architecture and journalism in their souls
“Tudor” rebellions, Annette Carson, architects, bob wyatt, bodyline, cricket, false allegations, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Jane, Lord Guildford Dudley, MPs, peers, petronella wyatt, poets, Scotland, Sir Henry Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Wallis Simpson, Woodrow Wyatt, Wyatt familyAt the moment, it looks as though there may be two separate Wyatt families. The first would start with Sir Henry, who the anti-historians claim to have been tortured on the orders of Richard III … except that we know, thanks to Carson et al, that it happened in Scotland. Sir Thomas the poet (left)…
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Nowadays the title of Dame is the simple female equivalent of a knight, a woman who has achieved a lot in science, business, sport, entertainment or charity. This was not always so. In the mediaeval era, a knight earned his title in battle and his female counterpart could not, however, it was the Anglo-Norman version…
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After he became King, Richard III leased the Manor of Chelsea to the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk for a red rose given each Midsummer. The Dowager Duchess was Elizabeth Talbot, the sister of Eleanor Talbot, Edward IV‘s secret wife. Elizabeth (and Eleanor) were also full 1st cousins to Richard’s wife, Anne Neville. Elizabeth, who had…
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EDWARD V – HIS LIFE PRIOR TO JUNE 1483
“Princes”, bigamy, Cheyneygates, Coldridge Church, Domenico Mancini, Dr. John Argentine, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Gelderland Document, George Duke of Bedford, George Duke of Clarence, helen maud cam, Helen Maurer, Hicks, illegitimacy, Joanna Laynesmith, John Ashdown-Hill, Ludlow Castle, Philippa Langley, Readeption, Richard Duke of York, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, Westminster AbbeyREBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI He had such dignity in his whole person and in his countenance such charm that, however much they might feast their eyes he never sated the gaze of observers’. Domenico Mancini Edward V from the window at Coldridge Church, Devon. Despite the late historian Professor Helen Maud Cam opining rather harshly…
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