genealogy
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And here we have…Harry Hotspur. The picture is from here, an interesting site about the Percy family. This is said to be a very good likeness of Hotspur, although how anyone can really know that I’m not sure. Clearly he conforms to a Percy “type”. The section dealing with the Percys under Richard III is under construction,…
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I really hate seeing this first word abused, so here goes: ANCESTOR: One of your parents or their ancestors. COLLATERAL ANCESTOR: The sibling of an ancestor. The cousin, however close or distant, of an ancestor does not fit either definition.
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Some more Despenser connections
Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Neville, Danny Dyer, Edward II, Edward of Middleham, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward VI, executions, Frank Gardner, George V, Gregory Cromwell, Hexham, Hugh Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser, Ireland, Jane Seymour, Kathryn Warner, Laura Culme-Seymour, lynchings, Miranda HartLast year, we showed how Anne Neville (and thus Edward of Middleham) were descended from Hugh Despenser the Elder, Earl of Winchester. Having followed up Kathryn Warner’s suggestion, this file allows us to add another Queen Consort, a King, a Lord Protector and a Lord High Admiral to the list of that Earl’s descendants. This can…
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An American take on the “Princes” and the new scientific evidence
“Princes”, Anne Mowbray, Church of England, Edward V, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leicester Greyfriars, mtDNA evidence, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal mysteries, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, urn, USA, Westminster AbbeyHere is an article from an American website about the “Princes” and John Ashdown-Hill’s work towards determining the identity of the bones in that urn, as detailed in his “The Mythology of the Princes in the Tower”. The article is rather good. It does fail to notice that Westminster Abbey is a Royal peculiar and…
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Channel 5’s “Inside the Tower of London”
“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Ceremony of the Lilies and Roses, Channel Five, Charles II, coins, Colonel Blood, Colonel Thomas Blood, Constable of the Tower, crown jewels, Domenico Mancini, Duke of Wellington, Eton, executions, exhibitions, Germany, Guido Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Henry III, Henry VI, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, James VI/I, Jason Watkins, Josef Jacobs, King’s College Cambridge, Kray twins, Leonora Cohen, Long Cross Penny, More, Peasants’ Revolt, pre-contract, ravens, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, Royal Mint, Rudolf Hess, Simon of Sudbury, Sir Walter Raleigh, St. Gregory’s, Tower of London, Tracy Borman, Westminster Abbey, William IThis four-part series is narrated by Jason Watkins and heavily features Tracy Borman, Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. The first part dealt with the Peasants’ Revolt, which resulted in Simon of Sudbury‘s beheading and Borman travelled to St. Gregory’s in his home town to view the preserved head. She spoke about the animals…
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Katherine is second from the right This (http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/historys-royal-kates-the-almost-queen-104450) is about Katherine, daughter of Edward IV. It’s a bit iffy about Richard. For instance, here’s a quotation about her pitiful existence at the time in 1483, when Katherine’s mother, Elizabeth Woodville, fled into sanctuary at Westminster Abbey…um, taking a load of treasure with her! “…Katherine of York had begun 1483 as…
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Nothing to do with Richard—except obliquely—but the parallels are interesting anyway.
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A new tool uses DNA to predict eye, hair, skin colour … Quote from the above article: “The tool has been used by law enforcement in the Netherlands, Poland, and Australia, but it has not yet been adopted in the United States, Walsh said. It has also been used on ancient DNA, and it was…
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Here’s how the great House of Mortimer petered out and was supplanted by a Lancastrian usurper who killed the reigning king and stole his throne. Then, under the House of York, the House of Mortimer triumphed again….until, in 1485, along came another Lancastrian usurper to kill the reigning king and steal the throne….. Never trust…
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