Anne Mowbray
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MARY PLANTAGENET – DAUGHTER OF EDWARD IV & ELIZABETH WYDEVILLE – A LIFE CUT SHORT
1475 invasion of France, Albert Memorial Chapel, Anne Mowbray, Anne Sutton, Canterbury Cathedral, deaths, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, funerals, George of Bedford, Greenwich Palace, Jane Lady Grey of Ruthin, Joan Lady Strange, Livia Visser-Fuchs, locks of hair, Mary of York, National Maritime Museum, Richard of Shrewsbury, stained glass, wills, Windsor Castle, Wolsey’s ChapelReblogged from Sparkypus.com: A Medieval Potpourri Mary of York Royal Window, Northwest Transept, Canterbury Cathedral Mary Plantagenet or Mary of York was the second daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydville. She was born at Windsor Castle in August 1467 and died at her mother’s favourite palace of Greenwich 23 May 1482 aged just…
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Edward IV, Dame Eleanor and the Phantom Web of Impediments
Affinity, Anne Mowbray, Calendar of Papal Register, Catholic Encyclopedia, Cheshire, common stock, consanguinity, consanguinity test, denialists, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fourth Lateran Council, Gregory I, Hicks, impediments, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Maude Furnivall, mediaeval canon law, pre-contract, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sir John Grey of Groby, Sir Thomas Butler, St. AugustineIntroduction The precontract (i.e. prior marriage) between Edward IV and Eleanor Butler, née Talbot, has long been a subject of debate, but what has not previously been claimed is that Edward and Eleanor were so closely related as to have been unable to make a valid marriage without a special dispensation from the Pope. Recently,…
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Elizabeth Wydeville…Serial Killer?
“Lambert Simnel”, ambush, Anne Mowbray, Annette Carson, attainder, Bermondsey Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Cecily Duchess of York, Charles the Bold, Domenico Mancini, Dominican friaries, Drogheda, Duchess of Norfolk, Earl of Desmond, Earl of Kildare, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, Grafton Regis, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Hicks, Ireland, Isobel Neville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Kerry, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leicester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord High Constable, Luton Guildbook, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Minories, Parliament, Polydore Vergil, Ricardian, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Stillington, Rous Roll, The Pink Queen, Thomas Penn, York civic recordsUPDATED VERSION AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/08/elizabeth-wydeville-serial-killer/ Elizabeth Wydeville The Royal Window Canterbury Cathedral. Yes, this is a serious question. After reading several of the late John Ashdown-Hill’s books, particularly his last one, Elizabeth Widville Lady Grey, I think it’s time to give it some serious thought. Although prima facie it may appear absurd, after…
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St Stephen’s Westminster – Chapel to Kings and Queens..
1834 fire, Anne Mowbray, Anne Neville, British Museum, Edward VI, Eleanor Crosses, Ernest William Tristram, House of Commons, Michael of Canterbury, Oliver Cromwell, Phillippa of Hainault, Reformation, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Richard Smirke, Rous Roll, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Roy Strong, St. Mary Undercroft, St. Stephen’s WestminsterUPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/st-stephens-westminster-chapel-to-kings-and-queens/ Reconstruction of a Medieval Painting from St Stephen’s Chapel. Possibly Queen Philippa with her daughter. Ernest William Tristram c.1927. Worked from original drawings made by the antiquarian Richard Smirke 1800-1811 before the fire of 1834. Society of Antiquities. Parliamentary Art Collection St Stephen’s was the medieval…
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Coming Upon the King: My Accidental Path Toward Becoming a Ricardian
“Eleanor”, “Princes”, Alaska, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Mowbray, Castillon, denialists, dental evidence, dishonesty, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Garden Tower, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Josephine Josepha Wilkinson, King Lear, Leicester dig, Magna Carta, mtDNA evidence, Nevilles, Richard III, Richard III Society, Shakespeare, Stuarts, Tanner and Wright, Weir, Westminster AbbeyI’ll be perfectly honest with you: I was never really that interested in Richard Plantagenet, later Richard III. In school I had avoided the Anglo-Saxons like the plague, and Richard, well, perhaps like a round of the flu. He wasn’t quite as intimidating, despite the double-murder allegation lodged, and I got away with not having…
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NOT AGAIN! THE LATEST FROM A CAIRO DWELLER …
“Princes”, “Tudor” “sources”, Anne Mowbray, Annette Carson, Baynard’s Castle, bigamy, Charles Dickens, children, denialists, Domenico Mancini, Duchess of Norfolk, Earl of Northumberland, facial reconstruction, Hastings Execution, Henry of Buckingham, Historical Notes of a London Citizen, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, pre-contract, Richard III, The Maligned King, The Mythology of Richard III, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, Thomas More, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, usurpationRichard Duke of Gloucester being offered the crown by the Three Estates at Baynards Castle, June 1483. Painting by Sigismund Goetze at the Royal Exchange…(or according to some.. Richard in the actual act of ‘usurping’ the throne)… I came across this article on a forum devoted to late medieval Britain. Unfortunately I read it..5 minutes from my…
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An American take on the “Princes” and the new scientific evidence
“Princes”, Anne Mowbray, Church of England, Edward V, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leicester Greyfriars, mtDNA evidence, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal mysteries, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, urn, USA, Westminster AbbeyHere is an article from an American website about the “Princes” and John Ashdown-Hill’s work towards determining the identity of the bones in that urn, as detailed in his “The Mythology of the Princes in the Tower”. The article is rather good. It does fail to notice that Westminster Abbey is a Royal peculiar and…
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