religion
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The Emperor Charles V was the grandson of Maximilian I (Richard III’s friend and step-nephew-in-law), a nephew of Catherine of Aragon (and thus by marriage to Henry VIII) and father-in-law of Mary I. In February 1547, he feared death at the hands of a Italian mercenary (Pierre Strozzi) and wrote a fiendishly coded letter to…
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My devotion to watching TV documentaries often turns up odd bits and pieces. This time the culprit is “Curse of the Vampire” from Mythical Beasts, series 1, episode 3, shown on Sky History 2. As you might expect, the theme was the strong medieval belief that the dead could return to torment the living as…
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Now here is some exciting news. Time Team, formerly a Channel Four programme to 2014 but now digital, will be following up their 2015 visit to the Sutton Hoo mounds soon, on a digital platform. We don’t have a transmission date as yet …
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When a land bridge connected us to the rest of the continent of Europe, the area that became Dover wasn’t of any particular importance but once the land bridge disappeared the white cliffs at Dover became the point on our coastline that is closest to France. July 2022 saw the port of Dover becoming…
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RICHARD WHITTINGTON c.1350-1423. MERCER, MAYOR AND A MOST BENEVOLENT CITIZEN OF LONDON
Alice Fitzwaryn, Anne Sutton, Blitz, cats, charitable donations, City of London, College Hill, Edward VI, estates, Gloucestershire, Henry IV, Henry V, John Earl of Somerset, John of Gaunt, John Stow, la Riole, legends, Lord Mayors of London, Mary I, medicine, mercers, moneylenders, pantomimes, Pauntley Court Manor, Richard II, Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn, Sir Richard Whittington, Sir Simon Burley, Somerset, Staffords, Thomas of woodstock, Westminster Abbey, WiltshireReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com A delightful artist’s impression of ‘Richard Whittington dispensing his charities’. Artist Henrietta Ray before 1905 oil on canvas. Royal exchange. Even the most disinterested in history children would recognise the name Dick/Richard Whittington and also his best, and only friend, his cat, most of them being familiar with the rather delightful folk…
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Here is a Guardian article about Arthur Hughes, who qualifies for the role in that he is male, disabled (in a subtle way) and was only thirty when chosen by the Royal Shakespeare Company, as was Richard III in June 1483 when chosen by the Three Estates. He isn’t an octogenarian, a woman or pretending…
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Coldharbour – An Important Medieval London House
Aldgate Ward, All Hallows the Less, Antony van den Wyngaerde, City of London, Coldharbour, Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edmund of Langley, Edward III, Edward of Woodstock, Elizabeth of York, Great Fire of London, Henry VII, John Holland, John of Gaunt, John Stow, Kingsford, l’Erber, Lady Margaret Beaufort, London Topographical Society, maps, Marjorie Honeybourne, Mondial House, Pountney’s Inn, Reginald Bray, renovation, Richard II, Samuel Pepys, Sir Robert Cecil, Wolsey LaneReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com A segment of the Visscher Panorama of London 1616 showing Coldharbour after the earlier medieval house had been demolished by the Earl of Shrewsbury c.1585 and rebuilt up to the waterfront. The rebuild incorporated many tenements ‘now letten out for great rents to people of all sorts’ (Stow). …
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The present Priory House at Earls Colne (judged Best Village in Essex in 2015) may be early 19th-century but has a great history because it’s “….built on the site of a Benedictine priory founded by the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford, in the early 12th century, the remains of which lie buried under…
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We all have different ideas about witches, from the evil crones of Shakespeare to the gorgeous Glinda in The Wizard of Oz. The reality, it seems to me, is that most “witches” were innocent women (and some men) who were victimised for a wide variety of reasons. But that’s just my opinion. But nevertheless we’re…
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This link will enable you to download Livia Visser-Fuchs’ thesis “Warwick and Wavrin: Two Case Studies on the Literary Background and Propaganda of Anglo-Burgundian Relations in the Yorkist Period”. The lowly marriage of Edward IV, at a time when Warwick was negotiating an illustrious international union for England’s dashing young king, alienated Warwick and…
