buildings

A beautiful Yorkshire church with connections to the Scropes of Bolton….

Feb 24, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

churches, de la Pole family, Pavia, Scropes of Bolton, Tiptofts, Wensley, Yorkshire

Here is a link to a very interesting paper on the astonishingly beautiful but now redundant church of Holy Trinity in the small North Yorkshire village of Wensley. I’m posting it because this church was much patronised by the Scropes of Bolton who did, of course, have great connections to our period and to various…
THE ANCIENT TREES OF GREENWICH PALACE HUNTING GROUNDS

Feb 23, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, culture

Anne Boleyn, Anne Mowbray, Anne Neville, Charles II, chestnuts, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Oak, Elizabeth Wydeville, Greenwich Palace, Henry VIII, Humphrey of Gloucester, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Mary of York, oaks, Placentia Palace, Richard III, royal hunting estates, trees

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com THE ANCIENT OAK TREE KNOWN AS THE ‘ELIZABETH’ OAK. With thanks to Spitalfieldlife for this photo. In the words of Sir John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Richard III’s loyal friend, I get as ‘wode as a Wilde bullok‘ when I read yet another tedious reference to Henry VIII…
THE TRIAL OF RICHARD III, PART 1

Feb 21, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources, television reviews

“Princes”, A.L. Rouse, Anne Sutton, attainder, Audrey Williamson, Barrie Williams, Carolyn Hammond, Channel Four, Charles Armstrong, Charles Ross, Charles Wood, Croyland, David Starkey, Dockray, Domenico Mancini, Dorothy Mitchell, Elizabeth Jenkins, G.R. Elton, Isolde Wigram, Jeffrey Richard, Jeremy Potter, Kincaid, London Weekend Television, Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn-Jones, Nuremberg, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Parliament, Peter Hammond, Richard Drewitt, Richard III, Richard III Society, Rosemary Horrox, South Bank Television Centre, The Coronation of Richard III: the Extant Documents, Tony Pollard

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI SPARKYPUS.COM The statue of Justice, Old Bailey, London. Way back in 1980 the late Jeremy Potter, Chairman of the Richard III Society, and producer Richard Drewitt discussed King Richard III at length and an idea was born. That was to put Richard on trial for a heinous murder he had…
The strange story of the Stanley boy….

Feb 20, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Ardenne family, Battle of Bosworth, executions, Henry VII, John Stanley, Lady Isabella Neville, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sampson Erdeswicke, Sir William Stanley, St Peters Church Elford, Staffordshire, Stanley boy, Stanleys

Yes, very strange, because there are conflicting histories of this effigy and tomb shown in the image above. The tomb is in St Peter’s Church, Elford, Staffordshire, and both it and the effigy are rather small and therefore generally believed to be that of a child. The story is that the dead boy was John…
Edward of Warwick, a “pretender” to Henry VII’s throne? Well, REALLY Mr Amin….!

Feb 19, 2021

battles, buildings, genealogy

“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, “Tudor” rebellions, Battle of Bosworth, Edward of Warwick, executions, Henry VII, mercenaries, Nathen Amin, Richard III, Stoke Field, Tower of London, treachery

Oh dear, Nathen Amin wants us to fork out £10 to listen to him lecturing that poor old Henry VII was beset by wicked imposters and pretenders? I think not. Not even 10p! Especially as poor Edward, Earl of Warwick didn’t pretend to be anything at all, he was imprisoned as a child and…
GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT

Feb 18, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, law, religion, Science

Ankarette Twynho, attainder, Barnet, bigamy, childbirth, Clarence Vault, Crowland Chronicle, dental evidence, Despenser tomb, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domenico Mancini, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Guild of the Holy Cross Stratford-on-Avon, Hicks, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Stacey, Joyce Filyer, Luton Guild Book, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Holinshed, Roger Bolingbroke, Rous Roll, Samuel Hawling, Shakespeare, Tewkesbury Abbey, Thomas Burdet, Thomas More, Thomas Penn, Thomas Southwell, Tower of London, wounds, Wydevilles

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkpus.com GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT This is thought to be a portrait of Isobel from the Luton Guild Book. See The Dragonhound’s interesting post here After the death of Isobel Duchess of Clarence on the 22 December 1476 aged 25, her coffin lay in…
A CASTLE SAVED AT CODNOR

Feb 17, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Codnor Castle, Greys, Henry Baron Grey, Katherine Neville, Katherine Stourton, Katherine Strangways, Margaret Stanley, Nevilles, Second Battle of St. Albans, Sir John Woodville, Sir Thomas Strangways, Sir William de la Pole, Stoke Field, Tewkesbury, Tower of London

I first heard of Codnor Castle some 40 years ago…and never went there. At the time, the only info I had said it was ‘just foundations’ so I passed on by. It was only in the last two years I realised there was in fact large, standing masonry including towers of this once-imposing castle. However,…
You’ll never guess what Ranulf Racket was up to….!

Feb 16, 2021

anniversaries, buildings

corruption, Edward the Black Prince, execution, Ranulph Racket, Stanleys, Wirral

In an excellent paper entitled ‘The Last Week in the Life of Edward the Black Prince‘, by Paul Booth, I have just come upon this medieval gem: “ . . . Stanley [yes, one of them] and Lascelles had been shown in 1353 to be at the heart of what contemporaries called a ‘covin’, a…
Tenby house with a dubious Tudor record….

Feb 15, 2021

buildings

escapes, Henry VII, hiding, houses, Tenby, Wales

Well, Tenby is beautiful, and a old house with a view over its harbour must be very desirable, see this site, but I fear that this time my pennies will be staying in my piggy bank. Shell out for the privilege of owning the house from which that miserable skinflint Henry Tudor escaped and, apparently,…
Was Katherine Gordon called the “White Rose”….?

Feb 13, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources

“Perkin”, burial sites, Christopher Ashton, Elizabeth of York, executions, Fyfield, George Earl of Huntly, Henry VII, James Strangeways, ladies in waiting, Lady Elizabeth Hay, Lady Katherine Gordon, Old London Bridge, Oxfordshire, Richard of Shrewsbury, Royal Historical Society, Sir Matthew Craddock, Swansea, Tyburn, white rose

Wandering around the internet, as usual, I came upon this link , from which I have taken the following extract: “Perkin Warbeck was tried for treason on November 16 and executed on November 23, 1499. His head joined the lineup of traitors spanning the London Bridge. Warbeck’s wife had been living in Westminster for so…