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MARY PLANTAGENET – DAUGHTER OF EDWARD IV & ELIZABETH WYDEVILLE – A LIFE CUT SHORT

Aug 11, 2020

anniversaries, art, buildings, genealogy, religion

1475 invasion of France, Albert Memorial Chapel, Anne Mowbray, Anne Sutton, Canterbury Cathedral, deaths, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, funerals, George of Bedford, Greenwich Palace, Jane Lady Grey of Ruthin, Joan Lady Strange, Livia Visser-Fuchs, locks of hair, Mary of York, National Maritime Museum, Richard of Shrewsbury, stained glass, wills, Windsor Castle, Wolsey’s Chapel

Reblogged from Sparkypus.com: A Medieval Potpourri Mary of York Royal Window, Northwest Transept, Canterbury Cathedral Mary Plantagenet or Mary of York was the second daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydville. She was born at Windsor Castle in August 1467 and died at her mother’s favourite palace of Greenwich 23 May 1482 aged just…
A late mediaeval “decade ring”

Aug 5, 2020

art, buildings, religion

artefacts, Colchester Castle, decade rings, Epping Forest Museum, jewellery, religious devotion

Here is a guest post on the Colchester and Ipswich Museums website, by Jill Holmen, Collections Manager of Epping Forest Museum. It depicts a “decade” ring, used for a form of devotion in ten stages and dates from 25 years either side of 1500, recently borrowed by Colchester Castle Museum and was on display there…
A WHITE BOAR MOUNT DISCOVERED

Jul 29, 2020

art

boar, Devon, metal detecting, mount

A beautiful mount bearing Richard III’s boar has been found by a metal-detectorist in the West Country. Quite a few boar badges have turned up here and there over the years, but this mount, which probably was fastened on a sword-belt, seems rather unique–and is very impressive, still retaining parts of its silvering and painted…
Tour the world’s twelve greatest museums from the comfort of your armchair….

Jul 24, 2020

art, buildings

British Museum, Edward III, Guggenheim Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, MASP, Musee d’Orsay, museums, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Anthropology, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Pergamon Museum, Uffizi Gallery, van Gogh Museum, Waterford Museum

Well, these days some of us might be stuck at home rather a lot, and even if we aren’t we may not find a museum of other attraction actually open. So the advent of “virtual yours” is a great help. There we are, in our comfortable armchair, sauntering around the like of the British…
The Mayflower

Jul 22, 2020

anniversaries, art, religion, travel

Bartholomew Gosnold, Boston, Cape Cod, Captain Reynolds, Christopher Jones, Coggeshall, Delftshaven, Harwich, James VI/I, Leiden, Lieden Communion, Liverpool, Mayflower, Plymouth, Puritans, Rotherhithe, settlers, ships, Sir Francis Drake, Southampton, Speedwell, USA, William Bradford, William Halsall

Below is William Halsall’s 1882 portrait of the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor. It is obviously imagined as the original ship was almost certainly broken up at Rotherhithe in 1624, a more extreme case than the “Streatham portrait“, which post-dates it’s purported subject’s death by about forty years. From the spelling of the title, the background…
This lady struck gold (Henry VII Fine Angel) because she was bored….!

Jul 14, 2020

archaeology, art

coins, Henry VII, Portsmouth

Well, here we go again. Yet another detectorist strikes gold. This time without really meaning to do it! And it’s all hers because she found it on her own land! Well done, Amanda. “….A single mum struck gold when she unearthed a 500-year-old coin worth £2,500 in her back garden. “….Amanda Johnston, 48, was bored…
Following the Gough Map of Medieval Britain….

Jul 12, 2020

art, television reviews, travel

Gough Map, In Search of Mediaeval Britain, maps, PBS America

Last night I watched an episode of In Search of Medieval Britain presented by Dr Alixe Bovey. The series concerns journeys that follow the famous Gough Map of medieval Britain and is very interesting and enlightening. The episode I watched concerned ‘London and the South East’, and I learned a few things I…
Surviving Regalia of King Richard III’s and Queen Anne’s Coronation

Jul 6, 2020

anniversaries, art, buildings, culture, law, religion

Ampulla, Anne Neville, Annette Carson, Charles I, Charles II, coronation spoon, Henry II, Henry IV, holy oil, Richard I, Richard III, St. Edward’s Regalia, Westminster Abbey

(by Annette Carson) The Ampulla and Coronation Spoon Perhaps because they are not immediately recognizable as such, these are the oldest items in the coronation regalia and the only two that escaped the systematic destruction of royal regalia and crown jewels after the execution of Charles I. The holy oil (chrism) is poured from the…
A Medieval Almshouse–with a Hidden Treasure

Jul 3, 2020

art, buildings, religion

almshouses, Bishop Robert Neville, castles, Henry VI, Humphrey Stafford of Hooke, Julian Inn, Reformation, Sherborne, Sherborne Abbey, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, stained glass, Triptych

Sherborne is a pretty little town with a ruined castle, interesting buildings including, an abbey, and a medieval almshouse. All are well worth a visit but the 15th century almshouse is of particular note as it is still in use in its original function. As the buildings are residential, the Almshouse is not generally open…
A hitherto unknown fact about Henry VII….!

Jun 29, 2020

anniversaries, art

coal, Henry VII, portraits, Terry Jones, Who killed Chucer

While reading Terry Jones‘s Who Killed Chaucer? I came upon a truly astonishing sentence. So astonishing that I have to share it with you. “…Henry VII, mysteriously, paid half a mark to a friend for eating coal…” Well, I find that hard to believe. No, no, not the bit about the coal – the fact…