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It would seem that tagging the word “Tudor” to anything is meant as a surefire hook. Nothing is interesting unless it’s Tudor. Well, things ain’t always Tudor by any means, and some things only happened to still be around during that unlamented period. In this case it’s a horse cemetery in Westminster that had been…
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Throughout history Easter has been the most solemn time of the Christian calendar, a time when sorrow and death are vanquished by triumph and life, of Christ rising from the tomb and ascending to Heaven. But in these more profane modern times, the sacred side of the great festival has been rather pushed aside by…
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Is there such a thing as coincidence? Happenstance? Fluke? Call it what you will, sometimes things happen that make us wonder. For instance, how often are you reading a word or phrase at the same time that someone on TV uses it? Well, if you’re buried in books as often as I am, then it’s…
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THE GELDERLAND DOCUMENT – ‘PROOF OF LIFE OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORK* ALIAS PERKIN WARBECK
“Missing Princes Project”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, Albert of Saxony, Anne Crawford, Bermondsey Abbey, Charles VIII, continental archives, documents, Domenico Mancini, Dr. John Argentine, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, engelbert ii of nassau, evidence, executions, exile, Frederick the Wise, Gelderland Document, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Human Shredder, Ireland, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, lion tower, Lisbon, Margaret of Burgundy, Maximilian I, Nathalie Nijman-Bliekendaal, Netherlands, Paul Murray Kendall, Philippa Langley, Polydore Vergil, Portugal, Richard III, Robert Morton, Sir Edward Brampton, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Tournament Tapestry, Tower of London, Tyburn, University of Utrecht, Westminster Abbey*This is the title of a chapter from The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley. Without the aid of this invaluable book I would never have been able to write this post… Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com The Gelderland Document is a unique, tantalising and quite astonishing document that was discovered back in the…
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The first problem is to identify the James Audley who became legendary at Poitiers. The problem is, you see, there were (at least) two James Audleys present that day. The first is James Audley, 2nd Lord Audley of Heighley Castle, Staffordshire (1313-1386.) As you might expect, he was the son of the 1st Lord Audley…
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Elizabeth Wayte (Lucy) & Stoke Charity
Arthur Waite, bigamy, carvings, churches, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth Wydeville, Hampshire, hampton family, Henry Duke of Somerset, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, mass of st. gregory, Reformation, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, St. Michael, stoke charity, Thomas More, thomas wayte, Titulus Regius, tombsBetween rainstorms, we were out in the countryside doing some church-crawling, a grand way to do some ‘medievalling’ when long journeys to castles and houses, most still closed for the winter, are out of the question. We happened on Stoke Charity by pure accident. I was attracted by the unusual name, which also began ringing…
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Molyneux? No, here come the Stanleys. Again….!
“Princes”, bailiffs, Cheshire, Chester Castle, croxteth country park, cuerdale, eagle and child, earls of Sefton, Flint Castle, henry chaderton, Ireland, John of Gaunt, Lancashire, Liverpool, Molineux, Ribble, Richard II, Richard III, richard molyneux, River Thames, Roger Mortimer 4th Earl of March, Sir thomas molyneux, Stanleys, Thomas Lord Stanley, WolverhamptonI have recently been looking into the turbulent life of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Cuerdale, whose hall by the River Ribble has featured in one of my articles. He was not a quiet soul, and had a terrible end at the Battle of Radcot Bridge in 1387 when surrendering to a Mortimer. The latter pulled…
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It was International Women’s Day on 8 March 2024, and at Warwick Castle there was a celebration of the ladies who influenced the castle’s history. See this feature. As far as we Ricardians are concerned, Anne Beauchamp and (of course!) her daughter Anne Neville are of prime importance.
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My first acquaintance with the term the Ides of March was a school visit at the age of nine, when I was one of hundreds of schoolchildren watching it in an RAF hangar in West Germany. “Beware the Ides of March!” Well, I simply accepted the soundtrack and at that age certainly didn’t stop to…
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