Abdication

Titulus Regius 1486 – what it says and doesn’t say

Apr 6, 2024

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion, sources

“Missing Princes Project”, Abdication, Annette Carson, Edward V, Henry VII, Innocent VIII, papal bull, Philippa Langley, Richard of Shrewsbury, Stoke Field, Titulus Regius 1486

Here, Annette Carson discusses the results of her research, which are that the legislation didn’t restore Henry VII‘s brothers-in-law to their previous succession rights. If it had, the Missing Princes Project‘s interim findings would show that: 1) The former Edward V would have been restored, reinforced by his Dublin coronation. 2) He either died at…
A circumstantial but viable clue to the eventual death of Edward II….

Mar 6, 2024

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, Science, sources

Abdication, adam murimuth, Auramala Project, Battle of Sluys, Berkeley Castle, berkeley pill, Canada, Corfe Castle, david tandy, Edmund Earl of Kent, Edward II, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward V, elizabeth comyn, escape, evidence, executions, Fieschi Letter, fundy bay, Glenn Moran, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, Hugh Despencer the Younger, Ian Mortimer, Isabelle de France, Joan of Kent, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Gaunt, Kathryn Warner, Lady Eleanor Talbot, mtDNA evidence, richard barber, Richard II, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard Talbot, Roger Mortimer, Salisbury Cathedral, secret marriage, Severn Estuary, Thomas Lord Berkeley

In a way the mystery of Edward II is not unlike that of the Princes in the Tower (see here). In both cases supposed royal murders have turned out to be untrue and the victims have escaped to the Continent. Also in both cases the murder aspect has been unchallenged until relatively recently, with all the old…
Another “Mary Rose” is found….

Dec 11, 2022

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, religion, Science

Abdication, Cromer, Gloucester, Great Yarmouth, Henry I, Henry V, Henry VIII, Holighost, James VII/II, Leicester, Mary Rose, museums, Norfolk, Norwich Castle, Portsmouth, Raedwald, Richard III, Samuel Pepys, shipwreck, Sutton Hoo, The White Ship

I well remember all the excitement when Henry VIII’s Mary Rose was found and brought to the surface for the first time since his reign. The event was broadcast live and we watched as she reappeared inch by slow inch. Yes, it was quite a story. But then, Henry VIII (love him or hate…
Digging for Treasure

Dec 8, 2022

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, religion, Science, television reviews

Abdication, aeroplanes, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Neville, Boudicca, castles, Channel Five, coins, Dan Walker, Digging for Treasure, Fincham, King’s Lynn, Lancaster bombers, Loch leven, London Bridge, Mary Queen of Scots, metal detecting, Michaela Strachan, mudlarking, Norfolk, Northallerton, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Raksha Dave, Scotland, scuba-detecting, Sheriff Hutton, Southwark Cathedral, Wars of the Roses

There are several interesting archaeology series on television and Channel Five has now joined in with an ensemble programme, headed by two familiar personalities (Dan Walker and Michaela Strachan) and a similarly ubiquitous chief archaeologist (Raksha Dave), but with more of an emphasis on metal detecting for the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme, including Roman…
A much simpler analysis: Herr today, gone tomorrow?

Nov 12, 2022

anniversaries, genealogy, law

Abdication, adoption, Bavaria, Germany, Hohenzollerns, Jacobites, Liechtenstein, Prussia, Salic Law, Saxony, Useful Charts, Wilhelm II, Wurttenburg

This time, Useful Charts determines the hypothetical King (Emperor) of Germany. The Emperors from 1871 were the Hohenzollerns, an ancient family who had become Kings of Prussia, the largest of the four remaining component monarchies alongside Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttenburg and several smaller states. The 2018 video, ironically marking the centenary of the abdication shows…
Are you still a thoroughly top-notch, summit-of-the-heap king without a coronation….?

Jun 22, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion

Abdication, ceremony, coronations, Edward V, Edward VIII, health, Henry IV, Henry VII, holy oil, House of Mortimer, Jane, Parliament, Pontefract Castle, Richard of Shrewsbury, uncrowned monarchs

Does anyone know what would happen if a newly succeeding medieval king were too unwell to undergo the rigours of a coronation? Would such a ceremony merely be postponed in the hope of his recovery? What would happen if he didn’t recover, but eventually died still without having had a coronation? Did the omission somehow…
King James VI of Scotland, James I of England podcast….

Jun 19, 2021

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Here is a link to a BBC podcast about King James VI of Scotland, who, of course, became James I of England and was the first of our Stuart monarchs. I can’t say I’m a Stuart expert, being much more interested in the Plantagenets, but a monarch is a monarch!
Royal redundancies….

Oct 11, 2019

law

Abdication, Akihito, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Charles I, deposition, Edward VIII, Mary Stuart, Richard III

Throughout history, members of royal families have not always died peacefully in bed. Some have abdicated, like Edward VIII, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and, this very month, the Japanese Emperor Akihito. Some were despatched bloodily, like Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I and, of course, Richard III. Those who died peacefully in their beds…
Trial by combat attended by the King of England….

Sep 16, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, The play’s the thing

Abdication, Caludon Castle, Chronique de la traison et mort de Richard Deux Roy Dengleterre, Coventry, duel, exile, Gosford Green, Henry IV, John of Gaunt, Lords Appellant, Radcot Bridge, Richard II, St. Albans Chronicle, St. Anne’s Monastery, The Hollow Crown, Thomas Mowbray Earl of Norfolk

On 16th September 1398, at Gosford Green near Coventry, there was a tournament involving a trial by combat between Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. Almost the entire nobility of England attended this event, including the king, Richard II, who had ordered the trial to settle a dispute (concerning…