genealogy
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Today is 13 March 2024, but thankfully it’s a Wednesday, not a Friday. Why thankfully? Well, we all know the old belief that Fridays which fall on the thirteenth day of a month are considered to be very unlucky. It occurred in October 2023, and will happen again in September and December this year, then…
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A few months ago, we wrote about Time Team’s plans for additional excavations at Sutton Hoo. Here is a more up-to-date ITV article. As you can see, the National Trust are hoping that the dig will solve some “anomalies” and may make some new discoveries. The programme will be online in June.
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Lists are always appearing online, whether of the best ever, worst ever, funniest ever and so on. This list is of historical mysteries (novels) that have made it to the cinema. And the entry that is of particular interest to us is The Lost King. But the author of the list admits to “cheating” a…
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… as our previous post: There is a further similarity between Edward II and Edward V and a difference between them: The similarity is that Richard Lord Talbot married Elizabeth Comyn in secret, Lady Eleanor being their great-great-granddaughter. The difference is that Richard III and Edward V both have mtDNA lines found by John Ashdown-Hill…
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Henry VI….our most unfortunate king….?
“Tudor” propaganda, Catherine de Valois, Charles VI, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, evidence, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, madness, Owen Tudor, Philippa Langley, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, Second Battle of St. Albans, Tewkesbury, Wars of the RosesWas Henry VI our most unfortunate king? Well, at only nine months he was certainly the youngest to come to the throne. And when he reached adulthood his mental state was frequently out of kilter. A little like his maternal grandfather, the French king Charles VI, known to posterity as Charles the Mad. Charles…
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The Queen of France’s necromancers….
“Tudor” propaganda, “Tudors”, disability, Duchy of Brittany, Edward III, France, Hundred Years War, jean de vignay, joan of penthevriere, joan the lame, John IV Duke of Brittany, Leicester dig, Mark Ormrod, melcombe, necromancy, philip vi, Richard III, Shakespeare, storms, Thomas More, treaty of malestroitSupporters of Richard III are always incensed that his reputation (courtesy of the Bard, the sainted Sir Thomas More and the House of Tudor) has always been damned because of his scoliosis. Well, the Bard and More embellished a curved back into much, much more. They turned him into a wicked hobgoblin! But in those…
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The Red Castle mentioned in The Adventures of Alianore Audley, is a real place, albeit not very much is left of it. It is in Hawkstone Park and was formerly one of the main residences of the Touchet/Audley family. The spelling of ‘Touchet’ varies enormously. Some members of the family used ‘Touchet’ while others used…
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This is the second of Kathryn Warner’s books about Edward II, focussing on the life of his wife, who came across from France as the daughter, sister and aunt of the last five Capetian kings at the outset of the Hundred Years’ War, her niece being passed over as a Salic Law led to a…
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