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All you need to know about almshouses….

Aug 27, 2022

buildings, religion

almshouses, Country Life, Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick

I confess to not knowing much about almshouses, but this article soon explains it all.
Richard of Gloucester attacks Dumfries in 1482….

Aug 24, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Annandale, castles, Cumberland, Dumfries, Lochmaben, raids, reprisals, Richard III, Richard III Society, Ruthwell, Ruthwell Parish Church, Sandra Pendlington, Scotland, Solway Firth, St. Ninian, Whithorn

“….540 years ago on 22nd May 1482, the English led by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (the future Richard III) led a large raiding party across the Solway Firth. The raid was a reprisal to punish the Scots for the devastation they had caused in Cumberland during the previous winter….” The above is an extract…
SIR HENRY BODRUGAN – A LINK TO RICHARD III, EDWARD V, COLDRIDGE AND THE DUBLIN KING

Aug 17, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, sources, Uncategorized

“Lambert Simnel”, A.L. Rouse, attainders, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Bodrugan Barton, Brittany, Buckingham rebellion, Calendar of Patent Rolls, chaperone, Charles Ross, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Coldridge, Cornwall, coronations, Courtenays, David Baldwin, earls of devon, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, France, Francis Viscount Lovell, Harleian Manuscript, imprisonment, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, John Beaumont, John Earl of Lincoln, John Reskymer, knights of the body, Lovell rebellion, Megavissey, ODNB, Richard Antron, Richard III, Robert Markenfield, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Sir Henry Trenowith, Sir John Evans, Sir Richard Edgecumbe, Star Chamber Proceedings, Stoke Field, The Dublin King, The Parochial History of Cornwall

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @sparkypus.com Bodrugan Leap – a traditional Cornish story tells of how Sir Henry Bodrugan leaped from this cliff top to a waiting boat and made his escape first to France and later to Ireland. If you are reading this then it is also likely that you have read my other various…
The Case of Mary Blandy: Guilty or Innocent?

Aug 16, 2022

law, religion

arsenic, Henley, Mary Blandy, murder, Oxford Castle, Oxfordshire, secret marriage, William Cranstoun

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Mary Blandy “Alas! the record of her page will tellThat one thus madden’d, lov’d, and guilty fell.Who hath not heard of Blandy’s fatal fame,Deplor’d her fate, and sorrow’d o’er her shame?”~”Henley,” anonymous 1827 poem The case of Mary Blandy divides opinion even today. Was she an innocent victim of a…
St Margaret Marloes

Aug 15, 2022

buildings, religion

Archbishop Scrope, beguinage, Bruges, Edward II, Henry VI, Low Countries, Pembrokeshire, Sir Guy de Bryan, St. Margaret Marloes, Tewkesbury Abbey, Thomas of Lancaster, tombs, Wales

This link from The Friends of Friendless Churches tells the story of St Margaret Marloes in the 14th Century. One interesting fact is that she was the niece of Sir Guy de Bryan, whose splendid but empty tomb may be found in Tewkesbury Abbey and will be familiar to many readers of this blog. Sir…
Was Elizabeth Woodville a witch….?

Aug 12, 2022

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion

“Princes”, Arthur, Bermondsey Abbey, bias, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry VII, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Merlin, plotting, Richard III, Sir William Stanley, Tower of London, witchcraft

Royalty and magic (black or otherwise). Well, the connection isn’t new, after all, King Arthur had Merlin. And when it suited one’s enemies, a charge of witchcraft was always a guaranteed spanner in the works. The first section of this article this article deals with Elizabeth Woodville, and is perhaps of most interest to…
The Maldon Embroidery

Aug 11, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, religion

Battle of Maldon, Bayeux Tapestry, Beeleigh Abbey, Brythnoth, Charters, d’Arcy family, Edward Bright, Ely Cathedral, Heinkel bomber, Henry II, Maldon embroidery, Moot Hall, Olaf, Olaf Tryggvason, railways, Rose and Crown Maldon, shipping, St. Peter’s Maldon, Thomas Plume, Thomas Plume’s Library

The first thing to notice about this is that is an embroidery not a tapestry, although the “Bayeux Tapestry” is also an embroidery ie hand-stitched. It was constructed to mark the millennium of the 991 Battle of Maldon, at which Vikings, possibly under Olaf Tryggvason, defeated and killed the Saxon Earldorman Brythnoth. It is displayed…
Michael Portillo’s Great Coastal Railway Journeys and Pembroke Castle

Aug 7, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, Science, television reviews, travel

“Tudors”, Ancestry, BBC2, bigamy, Carmarthenshire, Catherine de Valois, denialists, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Ednyfed Fychan, Edward IV, Glamorgan, Great Coastal Railway Journeys, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hywel Dda, Jasper “Tudor”, John Ashdown-Hill, legislation, Llewellyn ap Iorweth, Maredydd ap Tudor, Michael Portillo, Mortimers of Wigmore, Nathen Amin, Owain Tudor, Pembroke Castle, pre-contract, remarriage of royal stepmothers, Rhodri Dda, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, stewards, Tenby

I have enjoyed watching Michael Portillo’s Great Railway Journeys particularly the programmes that have shown him travelling along the coast of South Wales. He stopped off in places that I know well in Glamorgan, also in places that my ancestors hailed from in Carmarthenshire. However, one programme ended up in Pembroke and I must…
The Summer of 1483: Who Was Doing What, Where, With Whom and Why.

Aug 6, 2022

buildings, Events, law, religion, sources

Anglia Historica, Annette Carson, Barrie Williams, bigamy, Brecon Castle, coronation procession, Crowland Continuator, Duke Francis II, Edward V, Edward Wydville, Elizabeth of York, Gloucester, gold coins, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, illegitimacy, Jasper “Tudor”, John Morton, John Stow, John Welles, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lionel Woodville, Looking for Richard Project, Louise Gill, Malcolm Underwood, Mancini, marriage plans, Michael K Jones, More, piracy, plots, Polydore Vergil, Portuguese marriage plans, rebels, Rhoda Edwards, Richard of Shrewsbury, Rosemary Horrox, royal apartments, sanctuary, Sir George Buc, Southampton Water, The Itinerary of Richard III, Thomas Basin, Three Estates, Tower of London, W.E. Hampton, Westminster Abbey, William Lord Hastings, Wydevilles

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Today a guest post from Annette Carson, author of many excellent books about Richard III and his times including The Maligned King, Richard III, A Small Guide to a Great Debate, Richard Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector & Constable of England and a new translation of Mancini. Annette was also…
The Tomb at King’s Langley

Aug 5, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, religion

Anne of Bohemia, Edmund of Langley, Enoch Powell, executions, Henry V, isabella of castile, King’s Langley, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, royal tombs, Southampton plot, Westminster Abbey

Quite by chance, I recently came across this rather ancient article written by, of all people, Enoch Powell: If Powell’s theory is correct, the tomb in which Edmund of Langley and Isabelle of Castile are buried was intended originally for Richard II and was reallocated after Anne of Bohemia died and Richard decided to commission…