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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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Extract from Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings) by William of Malmesbury:- “….He [Eilmer] was a man of good learning for those times; of mature age and in his early youth had hazarded an attempt of singular temerity: he had by some contrivance fastened to his hands and feet in order that he might…
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Oh woe, the red mist doth appear before me AGAIN! I have no idea when this (https://www.msn.com/en-ie/travel/news/some-of-the-worst-monarchs-in-history/ss-AA1naF9c) daft list was published, but it arrived with me today. All it’s done is set my hackles quivering. How on God’s own earth can anyone equate Richards II and III of England with, among others, Ivan the Terrible,…
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Isn’t it strange how connections crop up quite unexpectedly? I have recently posted on this blog about The Sobbing Spirit of Langley Castle. See https://murreyandblue.org/2024/11/03/the-sobbing-spirit-of-langley-castle/. As the Sobbing Spirit title suggests, it’s about an unhappy ghost at Langley Castle near Haydon Bridge in Northumbria. She is believed to have inspired one of J.K Rowling’s ghosts, Moaning…
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According to Anthony Emery (Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Volume III Southern England, pp394-397) it was when Richard II married his second wife, the little Princess Isabella of Valois, only seven, that he decided to upgrade Portchester Castle into a royal palace. His reason was for comfort during the hunting season….and to have…
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