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buildings

A much overlooked landmark

Jan 3, 2016

buildings

deMontfort University, Gabriel Newton, Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower, Jane, Leicester, Leicester cathedral, reburial, Richard III Visitor Centre, schools, Simon de Montfort, St. John’s College Oxford, St. Mary De Castro, Thomas White, William Wyggestone

Those of you who attended part of Richard III’s reburial week, or visited St. Martin’s Cathedral and the Visitors’ Centre subsequently, may have wandered off into the east of the city centre along Cank Street, Silver Street by the old arcades, or even the High Street, past. At the end of High Street, into which…
The Round Church in Cambridge

Dec 25, 2015

buildings, religion

Cambridge, churches, Round Church Cambridge

I am always interested to find out about buildings which were extant in Richard III’s times. This one looks really interesting and I hadn’t heard of it before. Original article click here: Cambridge Round Church Image credit: Richard Banks Harraden [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sutton Hoo and Raedwald of East Anglia (2011)

Dec 9, 2015

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science

Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, Basil Brown, Bretwalda, British Museum, Christian convert, Defoe, East Anglia, Edith Pretty, Edward Fitzgerald, Egbert III, Kent, Raedwald, Ricardian Bulletin, St. Ethelreda, Sutton Hoo, Tranmer House, Wuffings

(originally published in the Ricardian Bulletin) Saturday 30 July saw nearly twenty of us visit Sutton Hoo, a National Trust property that overlooks Woodbridge from across the Deben. Members travelled from London, Ipswich or by themselves, using booked taxis from Woodbridge station. We were there for three and a half hours, joining an official tour…
Lost in Southampton: Richard of Conisbrough

Dec 8, 2015

buildings, genealogy

Alice, Anne Curry, Anne Mortimer, Anthony Woodville, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Edward IV, Edward of Norwich, executions, Henry IV, Henry Scrope Baron Masham, Henry V, Isabel of Castile, John Holland, Maud Clifford, Plantagenets, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Richard III, Sir Thomas Grey, Southampton plot, St. Julien’s, T.B. Pugh, York

Richard of Conisbrough was Richard III’s grandfather on the paternal side. He is a shadowy figure, the last son of Edmund of Langley and his wife Isabella of Castile. Even his date of birth is uncertain, varying in different accounts by up to ten years. His father left him no inheritance, and there were rumours…
Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Part Two: Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle

Dec 4, 2015

buildings

Black Death, Byland, Edward II, Edward IV, Helmsley Castle, Hexham, Magna Carta, monastery, National Park, Rhoda Edwards, Richard III, Rievaulx Abbey, Royal Progress, Scarborough, travel, Yorkshire

Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum My previous Travel Tales blog talked about the Forest of Bowland and Skipton. Today, we’re going to two places that sometimes get forgotten by the traveler who is interested in visiting places having some Richard III connections: Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle. ?…
LONDON’S GUILDHALL: Where Buckingham Did Not Spit

Nov 29, 2015

buildings

3rd Duke of Norfolk, Anne Askew, Archbishop Cranmer, Brutus, Catherine Howard, Edward V, Francis Dereham, Guildford Dudley, Guildhall, Henry of Buckingham, Jane, London, Richard III, Thomas Culpeper, Woodv

In the heart of the City of London stands the medieval Guildhall. Built between 1411 and 1440 on the site of a much older structure, for the most part it survived the Great Fire of London, and still dominates the square in which it stands, a true relic of the London of Richard’s day. Legend…
Sir Thomas Vaughan (executed 1483)

Nov 22, 2015

buildings, travel

Edward IV, Edward V, Ludford Bridge, monmouth, Richard III, St. Albans, Vaughan, Wales, Westminster Abbey

If you try to research Sir Thomas Vaughan on the internet you may become quite confused. Some sites suggest he was of the Tretower branch of the Vaughans. Highly unlikely, you might think, given that that family were strong Ricardian Yorkists. Others link him with the Vaughan family of Hergest Court. There were of course…
Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Part One: Forest of Bowland and Skipton

Nov 16, 2015

buildings

Andrew Carnegie, Bolton Priory, castles, Civil War, Cliffords, Edward II, Food, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, Pendle, Ripon, Rosemary Horrox, Skipton, travel, witchcraft

Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum I am passionate about history and travel! As soon as I got my passport, I was determined to go out and see the world with my own eyes, but more importantly, to encounter places associated with Richard III. In his brief 32 years,…
An interview with Phillippa Langley – Part One …

Oct 30, 2015

archaeology, buildings, Science

“Princes”, Edward IV, Ground Penetrating Radar, Henry I, Historic England, interviews, Kingfinder General, National Archives, nominative determinism, Philippa Langley, Reading Abbey, Richard III, Shakespeare, Stanleys

… in which we question the “Kingfinder General”: 1) Did your name, shared with two of Richard III’s great-grandparents, interest you in him? I remember being intrigued by seeing the name Langley and the Philippas in his Plantagenet ancestry and family tree but it wasn’t what interested me in Richard. I was captivated by his…
Richard III and King’s College Chapel, Cambridge….

Oct 23, 2015

buildings, heraldry, religion

Cambridge, Henry VI, Richard III

Laura Robinson investigates the events being held to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the completion of King’s College Chapel by Laura Robinson Friday 16th October 2015, 08:13 BST An interesting article, but I was a little surprised to read: “The crowning of Richard III sang life back into Henry’s forgotten opus; he pressed on with…