genealogy
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A truncated reign and a truncated monarch
“Perkin”, “Tudor” genealogy, Acts of Succession, Archbishop Cranmer, BBC, coups d’etat, Dukedom of Clarence, Earl of Leicester, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Framlingham Castle, France, Greys, Helen Castor, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Lord Darnley, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John of Gloucester, Kenninghall, Kirk o’Fields, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Margaret Clifford, Lady Margaret Douglas, Lady Mary Grey, Legitimacy, Leicestershire, letters patent, Lord Guildford Dudley, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Paul Delaroche, Phillip II, portraits, Scotland, Sion, Spain, Stewarts, Streatham portrait, Tower Green, Tower of London, Wyatt Rebellion, WydevillesRight at the start of this series, Helen Castor (left) takes a black marker pen and illustrates the cause of the 1553 crisis on a large sheet of paper. Beginning with Henry VII, very few of his legitimate male descendants were alive at the start of that year – eliminating the obvious illegitimate cases, we…
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Murrey and Blue interviews Michael K. Jones
“The King’s Mother”, “Tudors”, Aquitaine, BBC History Magazine, Castile, Chandos Herald, chivalry, Crecy, David Baldwin, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Enrique of Trastamara, France, Froissart, Henry of Knighton, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hundred Years War, interviews, Jean II, John Gower, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Lionel of Antwerp, Lords Appellant, Malcolm Underwood, Michael K Jones, Military tactics, Mortimers, Najera, Pedro I, Poitiers, Polydore Vergil, propaganda, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III, siege of Limoges, St. John’s College Cambridge, Thomas Brinton, Thomas Walsingham, tyranny, Wars of the Roses, Westminster Hall, YorkistsWhich of the Black Prince’s military achievements is the most impressive and why? The main attraction in writing a biography of the Black Prince was to bring to life his martial exploits, for Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward III, captured the imagination of fourteenth century Europe. The chronicler Jean Froissart described him…
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Illustrated by SHW
Anne Neville, battles, Bosworth, cartoons, Cecily Duchess of York, executions, Exeter Cathedral, exile, George Duke of Clarence, George Washington, Hazel Pierce, Henry Courtenay Marquis of Exeter, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, humour, Isobel Neville, Jane Neville, Margaret of Salisbury, marriages, Mary I, ODNB, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard Neville, SHW, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London, WakefieldToday in 1538-9, Henry Pole Lord Montagu, was beheaded for treason, after the “plot” involving his brother, Reginald, later a Cardinal. It was previously thought that Reginald was a sub-deacon for many years, was only properly ordained in late 1536 and thus could have married at any time before this. However, it is now clear…
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Today in 1495, Jasper “Tudor”, Earl of Bedford died …
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So there was I, just casually scanning the Mail on Sunday’s “You” magazine (22 October,p.23, interview with Nicky Haslam), when a familiar name popped up, a close friend of Haslam’s multiple-great-aunt. Unlike her near namesake: 1) She was a Butler by birth, not by (her first) marriage. 2) She didn’t go on to marry a…
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This excellent post from Nerdalicious, whose tabs appropriately include “History of Folk and Fairy Tales”, shows just how desperately ridiculous the Cairo case really is, particularly when they treat More’s first half as a Fifth Gospel and ignore his second. After all, we have already shown that the small coffins buried with Edward IV are…
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Is Dan Jones beginning to understand …
Bertram Fields, bigamy, Catherine de Valois, Dan Jones, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward IV, G.L.Harriss, Henry Cardinal Beaufort, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, mediaeval canon law, Owen Tudor, pre-contract, questions of paternity, remarriage of royal stepmothers, Royal Blood, Royal Marriage Secrets… what is really likely to have happened in the fifteenth century (as Harriss, Ashdown-Hill and Fields strongly suspect)? At this rate, he will soon learn the fact of the pre-contract and how canon law works.
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I had never looked into the English origins of George Washington’s family, although I did know that his ancestors were associated with Washington Old Hall, Washington, Tyne & Wear. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/washington-old-hall So I am surprised to discover that the family was also associated with other places, including Purleigh in Essex (http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/descendants.html) and Sulgrave Manor in…
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Has anyone else heard that the film actress Annette Bening is descended from Edward IV’s daughter, Cecily/Cicely? That is, according to the Wikipedia entry for Elizabeth Woodville, which cites “Cecily Plantagenet – Family tree Tim Dowling Geneanet” Geneanet.org. It seems Annette Bening played Elizabeth Woodville in the 1995 film of Richard III. (3rd from right…
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“Margaret of Anjou (1429-82), Queen Consort of Henry IV” “This marriage was again part of a peace treaty that brought a temporary pause to the War of Roses (over the French crown).” The above is an excerpt from this website. I suppose a typo can be blamed for IV instead of VI? But the Wars…
