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All the Johns of St Stephen’s Chapel….

Jun 9, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, religion

builders, Henry III, Imperial State Crown, John, John Stow, Palace of Westminster, Society of Antiquaries, St Stephens Chapel, St. Edward the Confessor, St. John the Evangelist

As a writer of medieval fiction, and therefore stuck with a preponderance of Johns, Edwards, Richards, Edmunds and so on, I’m only relieved not to have been asked to write a history of St Stephen’s Chapel. SO many Johns? Of the human variety, I hasten to add! This article: Where did all the Johns come from?…
CROSBY PLACE – HOME TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER 1483

Jun 5, 2018

anniversaries, art, buildings, heraldry, sources

Anne Neville, Bastard of Fauconberg, Baynard’s Castle, Bishopsgate, Crosby Hall, East India Company, Edward of Middleham, Henry VII, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Stow, London Bridge, Middleham, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard III, Sir John Crosby, Three Estates, tombs, WE Hampton, windows

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/18/crosby-place-home-to-the-duke-and-duchess-of-gloucester/ The arms of Richard III in Crosby Hall On June 5th 1483 the Duchess of Gloucester arrived in London and joined her husband at Crosby Place (1). She had left both her small son and and home at Middleham to join her husband, who had been staying…
Another female jouster

Jun 4, 2018

buildings, Events

English Heritage, female jousting, Kenilworth, Olympic Games

Recently, we posted about female jousters and here is one you will recognise …
A haunted property….

Jun 3, 2018

battles, buildings, Events

Battle of Bosworth, Coalville, Dojnington le Heath, Leicestershire, paranormal, Richard III, Sir Everard Digby

Not at all eerie in daylight! Feel like being spooked? Somewhere with a connection to Richard? On 8th June, Haunted Heritage Paranormal Events are visiting Donington Le Heath Manor House, near Coalville in Leicestershire, one of the oldest houses in England! “It is believed that Robert De Herle bought the land and had the house built…
Some notes on Henry Pole the Younger

May 29, 2018

anniversaries, Book Reviews, buildings, genealogy

Charles de Marillac, Francois I, Galway, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Ireland, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, Lord Leonard Grey, Pope, Reginald Cardinal Pole, servants, sources, Spain, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London

These are taken from Pierce’s biography of his paternal grandmother Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, we have some sinister clues to his fate. Our witness is Charles de Marillac, French ambassador from 1538-43, whose correspondence with Francois I is copiously quoted in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. de Marillac wrote on 1 July 1540…
Developments at Sutton Hoo

May 28, 2018

archaeology, buildings, genealogy

Anglo-Saxons, Basil Brown, East Anglia, Edith Pretty, Heritage Lottery Fund, Raedwald, Sutton Hoo, Wuffings

This East Anglian Daily Times article reveals that Sutton Hoo, almost certainly the burial of Raedwald, the Wuffing King of East Anglia who was Richard III’s collateral ancestor, will be the subject of its first major dig for nearly thirty years. A new viewing tower (left) will be installed during the process, between May 29th…
York’s little red tower is opened to the public….

May 25, 2018

buildings, Events

Red Tower, Richard III, York

Originally commissioned by Richard III, and built in 1490, this small brick-built tower in York has been beautifully restored, was opened on Saturday – the day of the royal wedding. The tower is yet another historic treasure with which Richard is connected. He may not have lived to even middle age, or reigned for more than…
The magical white hart….

May 24, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, religion

animals, David I, Holyrood Abbey, New Forest, pubs, Richard II

And lo! There I was, searching for information about white harts, and the Daily Mail comes up with a timely article! The white hart was always a very mystical creature, and seeing this photograph, I can see why. I can also see why Richard II chose it as his personal emblem/badge.
ANNE MORTIMER AND RICHARD OF CONISBURGH , A LOVE MATCH?

May 23, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Mortimer, Conisbrough Castle, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Dr. George Rolleston, Edmund of Langley, Eleanor Mortimer, executions, Henry V, Isabel of Castile, King’s Langley, marriages, Matthew Lewis, papal bull, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, royal tombs, Southampton plot

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/17/anne-mortimer-and-richard-of-conisburgh-a-love-match/ THE TOMB THAT IT IS BELIEVED ANNE MORTIMER SHARES WITH HER IN-LAWS, EDMUND OF LANGLEY AND ISABELLA OF CASTILE…CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KINGS LANGLEY Some time during the month of May 1408 , were married Richard III’s paternal grandparents, Anne Mortimer and Richard of Conisburgh. She was just…
Keeping it in the family

May 21, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Stafford, Armada, Ashby St Ledgers, attainder, Calais, Calvinism, Catherine Dudley, Catherine Pole, Claire Cross, Earl of Leicester, Edward of Buckingham, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, fashion, Flanders, Francis Baron Hastings, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry of Buckingham, James Earl of Morton, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Lincoln, Leicester cathedral, Margaret Clitherow, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Michael K Jones, Northern Earls’ Rebellion, Phillip II, Plantagenet descent, recusants, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Scotland, Sir George Hastings, smallpox, statues, Vaughan porch, William Cecil

You will have seen him if you have been to Richard III’s final resting place. There are eight small statues on the main entrance (the Vaughan Porch, left) of St. Martin’s Cathedral but only one of them is wearing a doublet and hose, showing him to have lived a century later than the others. This is…