religion
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Five years ago, we wrote about the lost Newarke Church in the Hospital of the Annunciation, where Richard lay for two days between his death and burial in the Greyfriars. As we said, the site is now occupied by the Hawthorn Building of de Montfort University, although these two original arches have been integrated. Here…
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“….the phrase ‘king by fact, not by law’….rang out again, though in a different choice of words, when Henry VII described Richard III’s reign. Richard III was never rightfully king from the moment he died, as he was succeeded by Henry VII, a man who felt his reign was completely illegitimate. Although Richard III would have…
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Like other towns near the east coast, Colchester was partially settled by Hugenot refugees from the Low Countries in the sixteenth century. The Dutch Quarter is defined as being to the immediate north of the middle of High Street, as West Stockwell Street turns off at the Town Hall. This Victorian structure has six historic…
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Whitefriars is in Farringdon Without ward, London, where in medieval times stood a religious house belonging to the Carmelite friars. I came upon it (on-line, not in person) because while researching a certain Sir William de Windsor, a very unpopular and harsh Lieutenant of Ireland in the later reign of King Edward III. He was…
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To read all about the project illustrated above, go to saxonship. See also the Mail. I have to say though that if the bow is on the left of the middle picture, and the vessel is presumably moving from right to left…aren’t the oarsmen sitting the wrong way around? Or are they intentionally going backward?…
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MARY PLANTAGENET – DAUGHTER OF EDWARD IV & ELIZABETH WYDEVILLE – A LIFE CUT SHORT
1475 invasion of France, Albert Memorial Chapel, Anne Mowbray, Anne Sutton, Canterbury Cathedral, deaths, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, funerals, George of Bedford, Greenwich Palace, Jane Lady Grey of Ruthin, Joan Lady Strange, Livia Visser-Fuchs, locks of hair, Mary of York, National Maritime Museum, Richard of Shrewsbury, stained glass, wills, Windsor Castle, Wolsey’s ChapelReblogged from Sparkypus.com: A Medieval Potpourri Mary of York Royal Window, Northwest Transept, Canterbury Cathedral Mary Plantagenet or Mary of York was the second daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydville. She was born at Windsor Castle in August 1467 and died at her mother’s favourite palace of Greenwich 23 May 1482 aged just…
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Why did Richard III allow Elizabeth of York such liberty at his court….?
“Beauforts”, “Princes”, “Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, bones, Bridget of york, Buckingham rebellion, Cecilia, Edward IV, Edward of Middleham, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, executions, Habsburgs, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, John Earl of Lincoln, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John of Gloucester, Katherine Howard, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Margaret of Salisbury, Mill Bay, Nottingham, pre-contract, re-legitimisation, Rennes Cathedral, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Stillington, Shakespeare, Sheriff Hutton, Sir Ralph Scrope, Stanleys, Stoke Field, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, Viscount Welles, Wales, Westminster AbbeyToday, 10th August, is my birthday, and on this date in 1485, the last Yorkist king, Richard III, was in Nottingham preparing for the imminent invasion of his realm by his Lancastrian foe, Henry Tudor, who didn’t have much of a blood claim to the throne but touted himself as the last remaining heir…
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I found this article to be rather awkward to read, due to the layout, so have extracted the part that will concern Ricardians, i.e. the ‘ghosts’ of the boys in the Tower. It’s nothing new, but I thought you might be interested. “….Prince Edward V and Prince Richard, Duke of York, just 12…
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Here is a guest post on the Colchester and Ipswich Museums website, by Jill Holmen, Collections Manager of Epping Forest Museum. It depicts a “decade” ring, used for a form of devotion in ten stages and dates from 25 years either side of 1500, recently borrowed by Colchester Castle Museum and was on display there…
