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https://e-royalty.com/featured-articles/the-first-great-english-poetry/ Geoffrey Chaucer, having married Phillippa de Roet, was to be Richard III’s great-great uncle by marriage. He was also the grandfather-in-law of Richard’s sister, Elizabeth. James I married Joan Beaufort, Chaucer’s niece, the cousin of Richard’s paternal grandfather.
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https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/a-genealogical-mystery-deepens-originally-published-in-the-december-2013-bulletin/ You will hopefully remember, from the above, that the first child by Katherine de Roet usually attributed to John of Gaunt may well have been legally (and biologically) her son by Sir Hugh Swynford. The other two Beaufort sons were childless and their sister married Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, giving all of her…
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Anti-Ricardians often partly justify their dislike of Richard III on account of his unattractive crown-hunger, claiming that he was always desperate to be king, spent his life plotting to this end and ruthlessly eliminating anyone who stood in his way, and cite as proof the prompt “usurpation” of his nephew Edward V in 1483. I’ve…
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This sounds a very agreeable way to spend a day! http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/13872381.Ride_to_sheriff_s_castle_and_tomb_of_a_prince/
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Don’t cry my son, it’s just a graze I know what can bring you cheer You’ll love the taste, so sweet, so fine Better than beer – Malmsey wine Chorus: Malmsey wine, fine and sweet Malmsey wine, you I seek Malmsey wine, heal the pain Malmsey wine: oblivion I know you’re sad, your wife…
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From Leicester Mercury, by danjmartin | Posted: October 08, 2015 If you have the stamina to wade through all the extremely annoying adverts, which really would try the patience of a saint, then this information is interesting. Let us hope that out of the three ‘contestants’ they choose Richard’s sign. http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Huge-King-Richard-III-signs-Leicester-s/story-27945952-detail/story.html
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Here’s an interesting blog from Lydia Starbuck, which I’ve copied in full here because on my screen a lot of the words on the right margin are hidden by a border. The October Kings By Lydia Starbuck on 1st October 2015 http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/the-october-kings-54091 King Richard III was born in October 1452, one of five monarchs with…
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http://theberkshireedge.com/richard-iii-debunking-the-myth-with-the-bones/ For those Ricardians in the US. “Join us at 1 p.m. at Dewey Hall on Main Street in Sheffield on Saturday, October 3rd, to hear Sally B. Keil speak about one of the major archeological discoveries of this century, the bones of Richard III.” I hope some of you will be able to attend,…
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http://tinyurl.com/owlk6cm All good Ricardians already know the fine calibre of our king, so hopefully this talk will be honest. If it is, he will be exonerated. And might gain some new supporters.
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Restless, furious, vengeful He sees with eyes long dead Malicious lies recorded His truth and honour fled The loser at the battle Despite his dauntless skill Losing yet more thereafter By the pen of Tudor’s Will He lost through heated courage The impulse wrongly judged Five hundred years to contemplate His honour foully smudged…
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