religion
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The murdered Lancastrian countess and the disappearing Yorkist ghost rider….
Blanche of Lancaster, british History Online, drowning, Edward II, Edward IV, executions, ghosts, Gloucestershire, Henry III, Henry of Grosmont, illegitimacy, Kempsford Castle, Lords Ordainers, Margaret of Anjou, Maud Chaworth, Owlpen Manor, Pontefract, possible canonisation, Prestbury, River Thames, Tewkesbury, Thomas Earl of LancasterGloucestershire doesn’t lack ghostly stories, not least about the Wars of the Roses with, for example, Margaret of Anjou prowling the rooms of Owlpen Manor and the phantom messenger, on his way through Prestbury to Edward IV at Tewkesbury in May 1471 when he was killed by an arrow. He still gallops through the village…
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Elizabeth Wayte (Lucy) & Stoke Charity
Arthur Waite, bigamy, carvings, churches, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth Wydeville, Hampshire, hampton family, Henry Duke of Somerset, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, mass of st. gregory, Reformation, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, St. Michael, stoke charity, Thomas More, thomas wayte, Titulus Regius, tombsBetween rainstorms, we were out in the countryside doing some church-crawling, a grand way to do some ‘medievalling’ when long journeys to castles and houses, most still closed for the winter, are out of the question. We happened on Stoke Charity by pure accident. I was attracted by the unusual name, which also began ringing…
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Oh dear, the shivers are running down my back because I just found this article which relates some of the watery horrors of East Anglia. I came upon the article while searching for something about John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who would die at Bosworth alongside the king whose good friend and supporter he…
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My first acquaintance with the term the Ides of March was a school visit at the age of nine, when I was one of hundreds of schoolchildren watching it in an RAF hangar in West Germany. “Beware the Ides of March!” Well, I simply accepted the soundtrack and at that age certainly didn’t stop to…
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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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… 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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Here is a Washington Post article discussing the consequences for one particular Native American tribe of the arrival of the Mayflower in America just over four centuries ago. As you can see, those consequences weren’t very positive but the Pilgrims themselves are rarely mentioned, except at Thanksgiving.
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