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Ricardian History For Sale in Leicester

Jun 18, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Battle of Bosworth, Blanche of Castile, Blue Boar Inn, Castle Gate, Henry of Grosmont, Henry VI, knighthoods, Lancastrian burials, Leicester, Leicester Castle, Mary de Bohun, Parliament of Bats, relics, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, St. Mary De Castro, The Newarke, Trinity Hospital, weapons

Castle Gate in Leicester is currently on the market for £800,000. Renovated inside to form a spacious house, Castle Gate was built in the 15th century and was the main entrance to the bailey of Leicester Castle. The Great Hall of the castle still exists and is a few hundred yards away. It is encased…
The de Berkeley Heart Burials St Giles Church , Coberley

Jun 17, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, Science

Alfonso of Chester, Berkeleys, Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, Coberley Church, Crecy, Crusades, Dunfermline Abbey, Edward I, Edward III, Eleanor of Castile, English Church Monuments, Gloucestershire, heart burials, Historic Conservation, Holy Land, horses, Joan Archer, Joan of the Tower, Lombard, Melrose Abbey, Phillippa of Hainault, Ranulph Lord Dacre, Richard Whittington, Robert I, Sir Giles de Berkeley, Sir James Douglas, Sir Thomas de Berkeley, St. Giles’ Church, Towton, William of Windsor, William Whittington

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com 14th century monument to Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Coberley (1289-d.1365) and his wife Joan Lady de Berkeley nee Archer d. 1369. The small monument besides the Berkeley monument is that commemorating a heart burial belonging to an unknown female. St Giles’ Church, Coberley, Gloucestershire. Photo C B Newham Church Monuments…
The Wars of the Roses’ last battlecry on England’s soil….?

Jun 16, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings

“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, Battle of Stoke, cowardice, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Henry VII, John Earl of Lincoln, Nottingham Castle, Richard de la Pole, Richard III, white boar

Our Yorkist shoulders always slump with dismay when we think of the Battle of East Stoke in 1487. With this defeat, and the death of the young Earl of Lincoln, who was regarded as the heir of Richard III, Henry Tudor was more firmly on his stolen throne. This site is devoted to the battle…
Time to feel sorry for Dan Jones….

Jun 14, 2023

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, humour

bloopers, British Empire, Dan Escott, Edward I, Edward III, Henry II, Henry IV, Magna Carta, Peasants’ Revolt, Richard II, Runnymede, usurpation, Wat Tyler

Right, ladies and gentlemen, if you want a real laugh, go here. It’s so full of bloopers that it really is a joke. For instance, OLD Richard II reigned during the Peasants’ Revolt. Um, Richard was 14 at the time. And then again Henry IV was Richard II’s son. But wait, Henry IV was Henry…
Trial by Combat.

Jun 7, 2023

anniversaries, battles, law, religion

banishment, Bolingbroke v Norfolk, castles, Chief Justice Thirning, Chris Given-Wilson, Constance of York, Court of Chivalry, duel, Edmund of Langley, executions, Fourth Lateran Council, France, Henry IV, Henry VII, King’s approver, Normandy, Parliament, Richard II, Sir John Annesley, St. Saviour’s Castle, Thomas Katrington, Thomas Mowbray Earl of Norfolk, Trial by combat, trial by jury, Tyburn, usurpation, Wars of the Roses

You might think that the Church would have approved of trial by combat. After all, it effectively remitted the cause to God’s judgement – assuming that you believe God intervenes in such affairs, as many people (presumably) did. In fact, as far back as the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 (Canon 18) the Church…
More historic walks on Channel Five

Jun 6, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, television reviews

Arthur Williams, barrage balloons, Battle of Britain, blackouts, Blitz, Cardiff, Channel Five, Clydebank, D-Day, Dan Jones, Devon, East Anglia, Great Yarmouth, Hampshire, Leiston Abbey, Liverpool, London, mining, Onyeka Nubia, pill boxes, Port Talbot, Rob Bell, Second, South Wales, steel, Suzannah Lipscomb, Walking Wartime Britain

If it isn’t Rob Bell walking Britain’s Lost Battlefields or Railways, Dan Jones walking Britain’s Roman Roads, Suzannah Lipscomb walking “Tudor” England or Onyeka Nubia walking Victorian Britain, it is Arthur Williams (the former marine and pilot) walking Wartime Britain. This is a fascinating series in its own right, showing how areas of the country…
Also found in St. Albans …

Jun 5, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion

Charles Earl Spencer, JD Wetherspoon, John Churchill Duke of Marlborough, pubs, Sarah Jennings, secret marriage, Sir Henry Winston, Sir John Jennings, St. Albans, Water End Barn, Winston Churchill

… is the Water End Barn, now the city‘s JD Wetherspoon but originally the property of Sir John Jennings. Sarah Jennings, his granddaughter and later the favourite of Queen Anne, married John Churchill in secret (which nobody else ever did, of course) and they became the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. As you can…
Hanley Castle

Jun 3, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Azincourt, Bannockburn, Brian Wainwright, Bruces, Canterbury, churches, Constance of York, de Clares, Edmund of Langley, Edward Despenser, Edward Duke of York, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Eleanor de Clare, Elizabeth Burghersh, Epiphany Rising, George Duke of Clarence, Glamorgan, Hanley Castle, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry III, Henry V, Huchon Despenser, Hugh Despencer the Younger, Isabel le Despenser, Joan of Acre, John, Kathryn Warner, Malvern Chase, massacre of Jews, novels, Richard II, Richard of Warwick, ruins, Tewkesbury, Thomas Despenser, unofficial executions, William la Zouche, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Historical Society

Hanley Castle is located in the south-western part of Worcestershire, only a short distance from the Gloucestershire border. Today it is a small, agreeable village, notable for a school, an excellent pub, The Three Kings and an interesting church, consecrated in 1325. As the place name implies, there was once a castle here, although all…
A woman friend of King Richard II.

Jun 1, 2023

battles, buildings, sources, travel

Douglas Biggs, Duchess of Surrey, Duke of Surrey, Eltham Palace, Ireland, Margaret Sarnesfield, Richard II, widows

Thanks to the works of Douglas Biggs (cited below) I have learned something new and interesting about King Richard II. When he went to Ireland in 1399, he took a woman with him. The lady in question was a knight’s widow called Margaret Sarnesfield. Although her origins are uncertain, it is probable that she was…
Thomas of Woodstock was an unpleasant, supposedly pious bully….

May 30, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion, The play’s the thing

Duke of Sussex, Edmund of Langley, Edward III, Edward of Woodstock, Eleanor de Bohun, Henry IV, John of Gaunt, Lionel of Antwerp, Lords Apellant, Mary de Bohun, Peasants’ Revolt, Pontefract Castle, Radcot Bridge, rats, Richard II, succession, Thomas of woodstock, William Shakespeare

This article Thomas of Woodstock and Shakespeare’s Twisted History | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net) begins as follows:- “….William Shakespeare wrote ten history plays. Of these, one of the most famous is Richard II . The play Richard II , written around 1595, is based on the rule of King Richard II (reign 1377-1399), but one of the main characters in…