religion
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I’ve seen this (awful!) portrait of Richard before. It just doesn’t look like him, more one of the invented Tudor versions of him, i.e. monstrous and evil, or weak and terrified of all things Tudor. This one fits the ‘weak and terrified’ mould, and if it were listed as a portrait of Henry VI, I’d…
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MISIDENTIFIED HISTORICAL PORTRAITS INCLUDING TUDOR QUEENS…
“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, beards, Bere Regis, breeches, Catherine Howard, Charles Brandon, Cromwells, David Starkey, Elizabeth of York, executions, fashion, Hans Holbein, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane, Jane Seymour, John Morton, Katherine Parr, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Mary “Tudor”, Mary I, Master John, National Portrait Gallery, Nicolas Sanders, Queen’s Collection, queens, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, royal portraits, Sir John Cheke, St. Mary’s Fairford, St. Mary’s Warwick, Thomas Wolsey, Toledo Museum of Art, tomb effigies, Wars of the RosesReblogged from MISIDENTIFIED HISTORICAL PORTRAITS INCLUDING TUDOR QUEENS… Does anyone else like me get irritated by misidentified portraits of historical characters? Is it that difficult to get correct? It’s quite sloppy to be honest as just a quick glance at them tells you something ain’t quite right here! It’s particularly common around 16th century portraiture when…
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THE ORANGE AND LEMON CHURCHES OF OLD LONDON
Blitz, burials, citrus fruits, executions, Great Fire of London, Great Plague, Grinling Gibbons, Hardicanute, Harold I, Hugenots, Hugh Lord Dowding, James Boswell, James Gibbs, John Smith, John Stow, Katherine Howard, London, Lord Mayors of London, Nikolaus Pevsner, nursery rhymes, Pocahontas, rugby, Rugby School, Samuel Johnson, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Richard Whittington, St. Clement Danes, St. clement Eastcheap, St. Dunstan’s and All Saints Stepney, St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, St. Martin Orgar, St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, St. Sepulchre’s Old Bailey, Thomas Culpeper, Will Somers, William Webb-EllisReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Old London – City of Churches. Bow Church can be seen to the left. Part of the The Visscher Panorama of London, 1616. Image Peter Harrington Rare Books. Orange and lemons say the bells of Saint Clement’s You owe me five farthings say the bells of St Martin’s…
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I have often wondered about the medieval Mass. What happened? What would it have been like to be there? What was said/sung/chanted? Well, I have now found a link to a You Tube film that shows a recreation of a Mass of Sunday, 4th October 1450 – the 18th Sunday after Pentecost. The film itself…
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No longer passing the Buc(k)?
accuracy, Arthur Kincaid, Battle of Bosworth, British Library, CAJ Armstrong, Constable of England, Crowland Chronicle, Domenico Mancini, Earl Marshal, Elizabeth of York, fire, Flodden, George Buck, Joanna, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Manuel Duke of Beja, new edition, patron, Portuguese archives, pre-contract, Richard III, Shakespeare, Sir George Buc, Sir Robert Cotton, Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel, Thomas MoreNow for some very interesting news: Arthur Kincaid’s The History of King Richard the Third is set for a new edition, based on forty years of further research. Kincaid has managed to distinguish the forensic research of Sir George Buc (1560-1622), whose great-grandfather fought at Bosworth and whose grandfather was at Flodden, from that of…
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As we all know, the Tudors were masters of propaganda. The lies about Richard III poured forth throughout their usurpation, and still persist to this day. If they could say something unpleasant and derogatory about him, they did. Perhaps it was in their blood, of course, because they were descended (one way or another) from…
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Being obsessed with all the books related to Richard III, I discovered a very interesting story I totally ignored. I bought a book titled “The Crowned Boar” published in 1971 and I soon discovered (after buying both of them for a small fortune) that there was another book titled “The Son of York” that told…
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Ferdinando Stanley (1559-1594) was very briefly 5th Earl of Derby. He was descended from Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, and according to the terms of Henry VIII’s will, which had statutory force in this respect he was the heir to Elizabeth I, since the Scottish branch were excluded. It is worth mentioning that he was…
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Philippa Mortimer, Countess of Pembroke and Arundel – a short, interesting and little-known life
accidents, annulment, Arundel Castle, Boxgrove Priory, dowries, Edmund Mortimer, executions, John Hastings Earl of Pembroke, John of Gaunt, jousting, Lord St. John of Basing, Philippa Mortimer, Philippa of Ulster, Richard Earl of Arundel, Sir John St. John, Sussex, Thomas Poynings, uxuriousness, Westminster ChroniclePhilippa was the younger of the two daughters of Edmund Earl of March and Philippa of Clarence,and second youngest of their four children, being born in November 1375. Philippa lost both her parents at a very young age, but her future was provided for (eventually) by her marriage to John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke after…
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