genealogy

More news from Jamestown:

Aug 4, 2015

archaeology, genealogy, Science

Bartholomew Gosnold, Catholic symbols, George Duke of Clarence, Jamestown, remains

As we established last year, Bartholomew Gosnold’s cousin was married to one of Clarence’s great-great-granddaughters (https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/the-explorer-and-the-clarence-descendant/). Now we can identify four of the 1607 founders who died in Jamestown during 1610: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3177841/Scientists-identify-men-died-Virginias-Jamestown-400-years-ago.html. We can identify them as Rev. Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Captains William West and Gabriel Archer. The latter was, intriguingly, buried with…
To avoid any confusion:

Aug 1, 2015

genealogy

“Eleanor”, Affinity, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, consanguinity, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Fourth Lateran Council, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Warwick, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Bedford, John of Gaunt, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, Marie Barnfield, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick

When Edward IV married Lady Eleanor Talbot in spring 1461, they were not more closely related than fourth cousins, through her mother, Margaret Beauchamp (see Eleanor, fig.11). Under the rules of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 (p.112), such distant blood relations were permitted to marry without a dispensation. It no longer amounted to consanguinity.…
A Fateful Convergence – two men with complex loyalties who faced the same place of execution

Jul 31, 2015

genealogy

Battle of Bosworth, executions, Farleigh Hungerford, Henry of Buckingham, Hexham, Hungerfords, Isobel Neville, Margaret of Salisbury, Norton St. Phillip, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Hungerford, Salisbury, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Thomas Hungerford, Walter Hungerford

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Plaque for Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham I recently visited Salisbury in Wiltshire and stood by the plaque which commemorates the execution on 2nd November 1483 of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham on the site of the Blue Boar Inn. His ghost is said to haunt Debenhams which stands…
Edward IV, The Woodvilles, and Lord Hastings

Jul 11, 2015

genealogy

Anthony Woodville, Calais, Charles Ross, Earls of Pembroke, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Woodville, Francis Lovell, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lieutenant of Calais, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Protector of the Realm, Lords Appellant, Master of the Mint, pre-contract, Richard III, Woodvilles

Charles Ross in his invaluable book Edward IV explains the utility of the Woodville family to Edward IV. The fact that they were (relatively) low-born and owned (relatively) little land was actually their selling point. Essentially (unlike for example Warwick, or even the Duke of Gloucester) their power and influence could not be exercised independently…
The Strange Death of Lancastrian England

Jun 24, 2015

genealogy

“Beauforts”, Azincourt, Bauge, Blanche, Burgundy, Cambridge Plot, Cardinal Beaufort, Catherine de Valois, Charles VI, Charles VII, Congress of Arras, Edward of Lancaster, Eleanor Cobham, France, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, John of Bedford, Lancastrians, Margaret of Anjou, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Rupert of Germany, Sir Hugh Swynford, Thomas of Clarence, Treaty of Troyes, Verneuil, Wakefield

When Henry IV had his final succession statute passed through Parliament he made no provision for the throne beyond his children and their offspring. Neither the Beauforts, the Yorks, or even the Hollands got so much as a line. This was quite understandable, given that he had four sons and two daughters. No one could…
A LOCK OF A KING’S HAIR

Jun 7, 2015

genealogy, Science

auction, Edward IV, hair, Society of Antiquaries

https://auctions.roseberys.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/38/lot/18809/ Recently a lock of hair purporting to be from the head of Edward IV turned up at Rosebery’s for what was, in my opinion, a very low estimated price. Edward’s tomb in Windsor was opened in the latter part of the 1700’s and it was said that visitors emerged clutching handfuls of ‘long brown…
Another “Lancastrian” widow

May 17, 2015

genealogy, law

Catherine de Valois, Dunbar Castle, Henry IV, Henry V, James I, Joan “Beaufort”, Joan of Navarre, Lancastrians, Royal widows, Scotland

Last week, we saw how Joan of Navarre, the widow of Henry IV, was imprisoned for witchcraft and only released after Henry V, her stepson, died. We were also reminded how legislation was passed just a few years later to prevent royal widows from marrying during their sons’ minorities – this was aimed at Catherine…
The Lonely Death of Duke Humphrey

May 11, 2015

genealogy, Uncategorized

Azincourt, Cambridge, Charles VII, Duke of Orleans, Edmund, Eleanor Cobham, French wars, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, Lord Protector of the Realm, Maine, Margery Jourdemayne, Parliament, Richard Duke of York, Roger Bolingbroke, St. Albans, Thomas Southwell, Treaty of Troyes, William Duke of Suffolk

{Humphrey of Gloucester’s quarters marked by a plaque, now near Bury St. Edmunds’ Tesco and opposite the railway station.} Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, was the youngest son of Henry IV (Bolingbroke) and so the youngest brother of Henry V, with whom he fought at Agincourt.After the death of Henry V, he became Protector (in England)…
Quest for the Norman Kings

May 8, 2015

archaeology, buildings, genealogy

Eustace, Faversham Abbey, Henry I, Matilda of Flanders, mtDNA, Reading Abbey, Stephen

Quest for the Norman Kings Finding a present day mitochondrial DNA match for either Henry I, buried in Reading Abbey in 1135, or Stephen, buried with his family in Kent’s Faversham Abbey in 1154, is going to be very difficult. However, one factor is often overlooked: Stephen is the son of Henry I’s sister so…
Dr. Ashdown-Hill Frightens the Horses…er, Denialists

Apr 12, 2015

genealogy, Science

denialists, Finding Richard, John Ashdown-Hill, Michael Ibsen, prejudice, Richard III reburial

One of the strangest phenomena to come out of the events of almost three weeks ago has been the continual bashing of Dr. John Ashdown-Hill by the usual group of denialists who populate the underworld of Ricardian history and rehabilitation. As we all know, Ashdown-Hill (along with other members of the Finding Richard project and…