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More about Elizabeth Woodville dying of the plague….
“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Andrea Badoer Venetian Ambassador to London, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Blanche Duchess of Lancaster, Catherine of Valois, Dr Euan Roger, Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset, Edward IV, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry IV, Henry VII, Henry VIII, House of Beaufort, John of Gaunt, Katherine de Roët, Katherine of Valois, Katherine Swynford, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, plague, Richard III, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486I have written before about Elizabeth Woodville having possibly died of one plague or another, see https://murreyandblue.org/2019/09/26/did-elizabeth-wydville-die-of-the-plague/. I came upon the theory back in September 2019, and the article that prompted my post was by Lydia Starbuck of Royal Central (https://royalcentral.co.uk/author/lstarbuck/). A curious letter of 1511 (from Andrea Badoer, the Venetian ambassador to London,…
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The two pictures above are centuries apart, yet the theme is the same, figures in a paradisial garden. Paradisial, because medieval art associated paradise with flowers, and in these images there are a lot of flowers. Another famous example of medieval art that links flowers with paradise is the Wilton Diptych. I know I’ve written…
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Richard III the Ruthless….?
“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, executions, Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham Duke of Buckingham, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lord Protector, Philippa Langley, Richard III, royal succession England, Thomas Langton, Titulus Regius, Woodvilles‘He [Richard III] contents the people wherever he goes better than ever did any prince, for many a poor man that has suffered wrong many days has been relieved and helped by him…God hath sent him to us for the welfare of us all.’ So wrote J B Sheppard (ed), Christ Church Letters: A Volume…
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Well, there I was, seeking information about Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, the “Kingmaker”, and whether of not he made any ghostly appearances. I know, I know, ghosts don’t exist, only the gullible and gormless believe in them, etc. etc. But the supernatural simply will not go away and leave us alone, and I’m…
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“….Richard III was king of England for only two years, but he enjoyed a much longer career as Duke of Gloucester. Understandably, therefore, much has been written about his time as duke, both as a means of making sense of his reign and as a worthy topic of study in its own right. In the…
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The above painting depicts the way the body of Richard III was humiliated and desecrated before he was taken back to Leicester after Bosworth. The fallen king had been humiliated and desecrated on the battlefield, and then treated like a sack of rubbish as he was conveyed back to Leicester. That a King of England…
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I believe the first person to advance this theory was T.B. Pugh, in Henry V and the Southampton Plot. (This book is still, incredibly, the best account of the early House of York, by which I mean that it pulls together quite a lot of information about them in one place. A thorough historical account…
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Scotland is crammed full of castles and great houses, some small, some large, and probably the first castle that comes to our minds is Edinburgh, perched so dramatically on its crag above the capital city. But Edinburgh is home to another very important place, Holyrood, or “….to give it its full title, The Palace of…
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Well, after Sunday’s premiere at the York Theatre Royal of the new avatar re-creation of Richard III and his voice, using actual words he used when elevating his son Edward to being Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, yesterday’s media was full of articles about it, most with a brief 1 minute 30 second…
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