Angelo Cato
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Bishop Stillington’s Testimony: Was it Enough under Church Law?
Angelo Cato, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Charles V, denialists, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Eustace Chapuys, evidence, executions, fidedignus, Gregory IX, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, Jacquette, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, parish registers, Phillippe de Commynes, pre-contract, probatio plena, qualified witnesses, R.H. Helmholz, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, sorcery, Susan Troxell, Thomas Cromwell, Titulus Regius, two-witness rule
Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Richard III remains one of the most controversial kings of England because of the manner in which he came to the throne:? not by battle or conquest, but by a legal claim that Edward IV’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was invalid, rendering their children ineligible to stand in the line…
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A new Mancini – by Annette Carson
Angelo Cato, Annette Carson, Bernard Andre, bias, Burgundy, CAJ Armstrong, Charles Ross, Charles VIII, Crowland Chronicle, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, Latin, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, Luxembourg, Phillippe de Commynes, Polydore Vergil, Richard III, The Maligned King, Thomas More, translationTowards the end of 1482 an Austin friar by the name of Domenico Mancini was sent to London by a senior minister of King Louis XI of France This was pursuant to France’s act of hostility in breaching her long-standing treaty with England, and Mancini was clearly on a fact-finding mission, as shown by the…
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Here at Murrey and Blue, we are not in the habit of reviewing repeats, not even when we have commented on them before. This time, it is the very fact and timing of the repeat of Channel Four’s “Who killed the Princes in the Tower?”, with the ubiquitous Dan Jones, that is at issue, together…
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Usurpation, Murder and More
“Princes”, “Tudor” “sources”, Angelo Cato, Croyland, denialists, Dighton, Edmund Dudley, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jack Leslau, John Morton, John Russell, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, Mancini, Miles Forest, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Richard Empson, Richard III, Royal College of Arms, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Richard Grey, Thomas More, Utopia
Originally posted on Matt's History Blog: I read a series of blog posts recently that sought to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Richard III ordered the deaths of his nephews. Whilst I don’t take issue with holding and arguing this viewpoint I found some of the uses of source material dubious, a few…
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