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Before I write another word, may I wish you all the Compliments of the Season….and warn that my post today has little to do with the sacred and profound meaning of Christmas, but rather with the earthly aspects, both happy and sad. There were only two Christmases in Richard III’s all too brief reign, and…
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It’s sometimes interesting to read modern appraisals of Richard III. In this case modern means 2004, revised in 2007. So it was written only a few years before the discovery of Richard’s remains. I will not quote from it or delve into its contents because it’s one of those that has to be read in…
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No, I’m not picking a fight with Colchester’s claim to Humpty Dumpty, for they did indeed have a huge Royalist cannon called Humpty Dumpty which was destroyed by the Parliamentarians, see http://www.englishcivilwar.org/2012/04/tracing-siege-of-colchester.html and https://lordgreys.weebly.com/articles-and-features/humpty-dumpty-exploded). However, I definitely find fault with any silly notion about Richard’s horse at Bosworth being called Wall (https://murreyandblue.org/2022/01/02/humpty-dumpty-and-his-wall-were-richard-iii-and-his-horse/ and https://murreyandblue.org/2021/08/22/hey-diddle-dumpty/). That’s…
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First John of Gloucester, now….could Edward of Westminster (Lancaster) have been a father too….?
Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, battle of tewkesbury, dispensation, DNA, Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset, Edward 17th Earl of Warwick, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Westminster, George of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Isabel Neville Duchess of Clarence, John of Gloucester, John of Pontefract, Katherine Countess of Pembroke, Margaret of Anjou, morning sickness, Perkin Warbeck, Richard III, Richard Neville 16th Earl of Warwick, stretch marks, Wars of the RosesIn mid-November I posted about whether or not Richard III’s illegitimate son, known as John of Gloucester or John of Pontefract, could possibly have had children. See here https://murreyandblue.org/2024/11/12/could-john-of-gloucester-have-had-children/. Richard III had an illegitimate daughter, Katherine, who became Countess of Pembroke but she died childless, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert,_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke). There are no other confirmed offspring of Richard III,…
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An interesting new creation of Richard III and his nephews….
“Princes”, Battle of Wakefield 1460, Blaybourne – archer, burial George of Clarence Tewkesbury Abbey, Cecily Duchess of York, Coldridge church window, Coldridge parish church, Edmund, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, George of Clarence, Henry VII, Henry VIII, House of Beaufort, House of York, John Ashdown-Hill, John Evas – Evans, Margaret Beaufort, Richard 3rd Duke of York, Richard III, Shrewsbury Book 1445, Urn Westminster AbbeyI recently came upon this link to a new video— https://youtu.be/CBXaZkCnP44—of Richard III and his nephews. The likenesses were based on the earliest known portrait of Richard (see left above, made 30-40 years after his death), and in the case of the boys, likenesses of their parents. The still images are manipulated to make them…
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We all know of the paltry 2016 work of fiction by Terry Breverton titled Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King. For more of Mr Breverton himself, see here http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-breverton/). In the book it is stated that “….Henry’s first parliament also reinstated his mother with the lands and grant taken from her by Richard III….” What…
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I recently watched an episode of Antiques Road Trip in which a sequence was set in Hedingham Castle in Essex. It was Series 11, Episode 23, in which art experts Mark Stacy and Thomas Plant travelled through Essex and Suffolk on their way to an auction in Cambridgeshire. I fear I have not been able…
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There are all sorts of stories about why Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, was called the Black Prince, from the colour of his armour to his reputation as a ferocious warrior and the grim expression on his face. I’ve also read that it wasn’t a name given to him until well after his death.…
The New Murrey and Blue blog 