genealogy

Richard III And The Tudor Genealogy — RICARDIAN LOONS

Jun 11, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, heraldry, law, Science, sources

“Tudor” genealogy, Bertram Fields, Catherine de Valois, Colin Richmond, Dan Jones, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Eleanor Beauchamp, executions, France, G.L.Harriss, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Hereford Greyfriars, Humphrey of Gloucester, Jasper “Tudor”, John Ashdown-Hill, John Duke of Bedford, law change, Michael K Jones, Mortimer’s Croft, Owain Tudor, Parliament, proclamations, remarriage of royal stepmothers, Richard III, royal arms

It is generally acknowledged by historians that Henry Tudor, who defeated Richard III, the last Yorkist king, at Bosworth and went on to be crowned Henry VII, wasn’t the Lancastrian heir to the throne of England he claimed to be. His mother, Margaret Beaufort, was descended from John of Gaunt, the third surviving son of […]…
Where did the Tudors come from….?

Jun 10, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, heraldry, sources

“Beauforts”, “Perkin”, “Tudor” rose, “Tudors”, Anglesey, bardic tradition, Bible translators, Cadwallader, Carmarthen, Catherine de Valois, Clifford Davies, coinage, Colchester, David Hume, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Richmond, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Giles Chronicle, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hereford Greyfriars, Innocent VIII, Jasper “Tudor”, John Ashdown-Hill, John Speed, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Maredydds, Milford Haven, Mortimers, Owain Tudor, papal bull, Plantagenets, Polydore Vergil, portcullis, Portugal, proclamations, Red Dragon, Shakespeare, Spain, St. David’s, Stuarts, symbolism, Times Literary Supplement, Wales

For those of us who may wish to know where the name Tudor comes from, here’s a thorough explanation.
An enquiry

Jun 8, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion

“Eleanor”, Affinity, bigamy, Edward I, Edward IV, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Henry Duke of Somerset, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Marie Barnfield, Parliament, secret marriage

Today in 1461, Lady Eleanor Talbot married Edward IV, either on her Warwickshire lands or in Norfolk. As Ashdown-Hill has shown, she was older than Edward, a widow, from a Lancastrian background and the ceremony took place in secret during the spring, five factors that also apply to Edward’s bigamous marriage almost three years later.…
Another C17 coincidence

May 31, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

Barnet, Battle of Newbury, Charles I, Civil War, coincidence, commanders, Nevilles, Only Connect, Oxford, Richard Neville, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury, Wars of the Roses

In the English Civil War, there was a Royalist commander named Richard Neville (left). Unlike his namesake and relative (right), this Colonel of Horse survived the campaign, fighting at the first Battle of Newbury and being with Charles I at Oxford at the conclusion of the first War. He became a High Sheriff, Lord Lieutenant, JP before…
Some notes on Henry Pole the Younger

May 29, 2018

anniversaries, Book Reviews, buildings, genealogy

Charles de Marillac, Francois I, Galway, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Ireland, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, Lord Leonard Grey, Pope, Reginald Cardinal Pole, servants, sources, Spain, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London

These are taken from Pierce’s biography of his paternal grandmother Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, we have some sinister clues to his fate. Our witness is Charles de Marillac, French ambassador from 1538-43, whose correspondence with Francois I is copiously quoted in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. de Marillac wrote on 1 July 1540…
Developments at Sutton Hoo

May 28, 2018

archaeology, buildings, genealogy

Anglo-Saxons, Basil Brown, East Anglia, Edith Pretty, Heritage Lottery Fund, Raedwald, Sutton Hoo, Wuffings

This East Anglian Daily Times article reveals that Sutton Hoo, almost certainly the burial of Raedwald, the Wuffing King of East Anglia who was Richard III’s collateral ancestor, will be the subject of its first major dig for nearly thirty years. A new viewing tower (left) will be installed during the process, between May 29th…
ANNE MORTIMER AND RICHARD OF CONISBURGH , A LOVE MATCH?

May 23, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Mortimer, Conisbrough Castle, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Dr. George Rolleston, Edmund of Langley, Eleanor Mortimer, executions, Henry V, Isabel of Castile, King’s Langley, marriages, Matthew Lewis, papal bull, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, royal tombs, Southampton plot

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/17/anne-mortimer-and-richard-of-conisburgh-a-love-match/ THE TOMB THAT IT IS BELIEVED ANNE MORTIMER SHARES WITH HER IN-LAWS, EDMUND OF LANGLEY AND ISABELLA OF CASTILE…CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KINGS LANGLEY Some time during the month of May 1408 , were married Richard III’s paternal grandparents, Anne Mortimer and Richard of Conisburgh. She was just…
Keeping it in the family

May 21, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Stafford, Armada, Ashby St Ledgers, attainder, Calais, Calvinism, Catherine Dudley, Catherine Pole, Claire Cross, Earl of Leicester, Edward of Buckingham, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, fashion, Flanders, Francis Baron Hastings, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry of Buckingham, James Earl of Morton, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Lincoln, Leicester cathedral, Margaret Clitherow, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Michael K Jones, Northern Earls’ Rebellion, Phillip II, Plantagenet descent, recusants, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Scotland, Sir George Hastings, smallpox, statues, Vaughan porch, William Cecil

You will have seen him if you have been to Richard III’s final resting place. There are eight small statues on the main entrance (the Vaughan Porch, left) of St. Martin’s Cathedral but only one of them is wearing a doublet and hose, showing him to have lived a century later than the others. This is…
Royal genealogy before it happens (2)

May 19, 2018

buildings, Events, genealogy, heraldry

“Tudors”, beards, Civil War, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Durham, Edward III, Henry VIII, Lady Elizabeth Clifford, Meghan Markle, Mortimers, Percies. Mail on Sunday, Prince Henry of Wales, Ralph Bowes, Rising of the North, Robert I, Scotland, Streatlam Castle

Seven years ago, before this blog officially began, a letter was published in the Ricardian Bulletin about the common Edward III descent of the Duke and Duchess, as she soon became, of Cambridge through the Gascoigne-Fairfax line. Now it has been announced that Prince Henry of Wales and the American actress Rachel (Meghan) Markle, or Duke and Duchess of…
The Greatest Knight and Richard III

May 14, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

Barons’ War, Battle of Newbury, Bruces, Cartmel Priory, Crusades, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II, Henry III, Isabel de Clare, John, jousting, Lincoln, Louis VII, Maud de Braose, Papal Legate, Pembroke Castle, Plantagenets, regent, Richard I, Richard III, sieges, Stephen, Stewarts, Templars, Temple Church, William Marshall, Worcester Cathedral, Young King Henry

I have previously posted about my family history connections with Richard III here and I have since found out more interesting links. One such is William Marshall. Called by some the greatest ever knight, he is one of my direct ancestors and also the direct ancestor of Richard III. William had an eventful life. He…