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This fascinating Channel Four documentary, featuring Earl Spencer at his family seat since 1508, included a team of archaelogists led by Gone Mediaeval‘s Cat Jarman. They set out to rediscover a lost mediaeval village that was mentioned in the Domesday Book, for which there was some evidence in the cellars of Althorp House. Investigations in…
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According to this site when Henry, Duke of Buckingham was executed for treason in 1483 in Salisbury, his head was taken to King Richard III, then lodging at the King’s House in the Cathedral Close. Buckingham had turned upon his cousin Richard, who rightly called him “the most untrue creature living”. Shakespeare would have us…
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Edward V and Coldridge: the evidence so far
“halo”, “Lambert Simnel”, “Missing Princes Project”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor” rebellions, Bermondsey Abbey, blond hair, Brooks, Cecily Bonville, Chris Brooks, Coldridge, Dan Jones, David Starkey, Deer, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Edward VI, Elizabeth Roberts, Elizabeth Wydeville, ermine, Evans chantry, groupthink, height, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heralds, John Ashdown-Hill, John Dike, Journal of Stained Glass, King’s Council, Latin inscriptions, Lord of the Manor, Martin Cherry, mtDNA evidence, Philippa Langley, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Markenfield, sanctuary, Sheen, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir John Evans, Sir John Speke, Stoke Field, sunne in splendour, The Dublin King, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, white roses, William ShakespeareThanks to this Daily Telegraph article last December, the world is now far more aware of the distinct possibility that the former Edward V lived on as “John Evans” at Coldridge in Devon into the reign of Henry VIII, his nephew, as a parker minding deer for his half-brother Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset. In…
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The above illustration isn’t of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, but from the time of his grandson, Philip the Good. Please don’t ask me what, exactly, the picture depicts, because I have no idea, except that it’s a story. It looks very secretive and sneaky, whatever it is. My interest is the clock.…
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Below is an interesting little snippet from the Calendar of Patent Rolls for 1382: You’ll find the original record here. And so Sheriff Hutton was born! Who would have thought that from such beginnings would rise one of the most important castles in Yorkshire? A plot on which to enclose a wall of stone and…
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We have written twice before about non-existent historical children somehow finding their way into works by a certain modern writer, who is often cited on Wikipedia and repeated by others. In these posts, we referred to “Joan of York”, ostensibly a sister of Richard III, together with those attributed to Henry IV and Mary de…
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Edward V, the Coldridge Mystery and the Telegraph article
“Princes”, Bill Gardner, Canterbury Cathedral, churches, Coldridge, Daily Telegraph, Devon, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Roberts, fetterlock and falcon, Henry VII, Jean Molinet, John Dike, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mtDNA, Old Deer Park, open crown, Philippa Langley, Richard III, Robert Markenfield, Sir John Evans, stained glass, Stoke Field, sunne in splendour, The Dublin King, The Missing Princes Project, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, white rose, Yorkist emblemsReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Stained glass image of Edward V in the Evans chapel at Coldridge Church. Image has been verified as being of Edward V by stained glass experts Brooks and Cherry as well as the Keeper of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Photo Photo Dale Cherry Here is a…
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Unwanted heirs? The Mortimers in the 1390s
Duke of Surrey, Dukes, dynastic succession, Edmund of Langley, Edward Duke of York, Ian Mortimer, Ireland, John Hastings Earl of Pembroke, Knights of the Garter, Parliament, precedence, Richard II, Roger Mortimer 4th Earl of March, Shrewsbury Parliament, Sir Edmund Mortimer, Thomas Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, Westminster ChronicleIt has been established now that Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, was declared heir to the throne by Parliament in 1386 – not 1385 as commonly believed. This Parliament was very much at odds with Richard II (it set up a one-year Commission to run most of his affairs, much to Richard’s displeasure.) So it…
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