Anne Mowbray

Is this the face of Lady Anne Mowbray….?

Jan 26, 2018

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science

“Princes”, Aldgate, Anne Mowbray, Bruce Watson, carbon dating, Charles II, dental evidence, DNA evidence, Dukes of Norfolk, Edward IV, Edward V, Henry VII, human remains, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Minories, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, urn, Westminster Abbey

Here is what little Lady Anne Mowbray may have looked like. She was the child bride of one of the so-called Princes in the Tower, the younger one, Richard, Duke of York. Her burial was recently extensively covered by sparkypus here. Now The Times has come up with an article about the reconstruction of this…
ANNE MOWBRAY – DUCHESS OF NORFOLK – HER REBURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Nov 19, 2017

archaeology, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, anniversaries, Bernard Barrell, bigamy, Duchy of Norfolk, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Framlingham Castle, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lawrence Tanner, Leman Street, Lord Mowbray, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, St Clare Without, St Stephens Chapel, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/anne-mowbray-duchess-of-norfolk-child-bride-of-one-of-the-princes-in-the-tower-her-reburial-in-westminster-abbey/ St Erasmus in Bishops Islip’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey by Joseph Mallord William Turner c.1796. The original chapel of St Erasmus, built by Elizabeth Wydeville, was the site of Anne Mowbray’s first burial and after recovery of her coffin she was reburied in the rebuilt Chapel. Anne…
The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate and the Ladies of the Minories

Nov 5, 2017

anniversaries, art, buildings, religion

Agnes Countess of Pembroke, Aldgate, Anne Montgomery, Anne Mowbray, Blanche of Navarre, Dame Elizabeth Savage, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Edward IV, Eleanor Scrope, Elizabeth brackenbury, Elizabeth de Clare, Elizabeth de la Pole, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Plague, Henry VIII, Isabel of Wodstock, Jane Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Margaret Stafford, Mary Tyrrell, Minories, Mowbray estates, nuns, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Sir James Tyrrell

Anne Montgomery nee Darcy. One of the much respected Ladies of the Minories from the window of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Shakespeare said ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’. Following on from that if we may be allowed to say that the Wars of the Roses were…
GREENWICH PALACE – HUMPHREY DUKE OF GLOUCESTERS PALACE OF PLEAZANCE

Oct 3, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Mowbray, Bermondsey Abbey, Burgundy, Canterbury, Catherine of Aragon, Charles II, Edward I, Eleanor Cobham, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Wydeville, enclosures, Ghent, Greenwich Castle, Greenwich Palace, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Humphrey of Gloucester, Jane Lady Grey of Ruthin, Joan Lady Strange, Margaret of Anjou, Mary I, Mary of York, Placentia Palace, Princenhof, Richard of Shrewsbury, Royal Observatory, Sheriff Hutton, Society of Antiquaries, St. george’s Chapel, Stuarts, Wydevilles

Humphrey Duke of Gloucester from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book A print by an unknown artist now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich depicting the Palace c 1487. Greenwich Palace, or Placentia as it is often known, was built around 1433 by Henry V’s brother, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, who named it Bella Court after…
In suo jure (or titles that did pass through the female line)

Apr 29, 2017

genealogy, law

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Mowbray, Barons Stafford, Blanche of Lancaster, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls of Essex, Earls of Warwick, Edmund Crouchback, Edward of Warwick, feminism, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Henry IV, Henry of Grosmont, in suo jure, John Baron Devereux, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John of Gaunt, Lady Carina Howard, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, Margaret Duchess of Norfolk, Mary Stafford, Michael Earl of Loudoun, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Sir David Frost, Thomas of woodstock, titles, Walter Devereux Earl of Essex, William Howard Viscount Stafford

In this post, we reminded our readers that a lineal Lancastrian is a person descended from Blanche, the younger daughter of Henry of Grosmont, not from her husband, John of Gaunt, by another wife. Titles usually fit into these categories: i) To begin with, many older titles were created before Letters Patent in such a way that they…
You only reign twice?

Sep 26, 2016

Uncategorized

Alexander III, Anne, Anne Mowbray, anniversaries, canon law, coinage, consorts, dispensations, Edward II, George of Denmark, Guardian of Scotland, Henry III, Henry Lord Darnley, Kathryn Warner, Margaret of Norway, Mary I, Mary II, Mary Stuart, Norway, Orkneys, Phillip II, Richard of Shrewsbury, Scotland, Sean Connery, Treaty of Salisbury, William III

Edward of Caernarvon, who was born in 1284, was king of England for nearly twenty years from 1307 as Edward II. What of his childhood? In about October 1289, he was contracted to Margaret, known as the Maid of Norway and Queen of Scotland since 1286 when her grandfather Alexander III died. She was a year…
Richard, George, Edward and HENRY at the same wedding….?

May 30, 2016

art, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, Ashmolean Museum, attainder, Earldom of Richmond, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, exiles, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal marriages

Here is a strange identification. While seeking more information about the duel that had supposedly taken place at Richard and Anne’s wedding, I happened upon a source that made it clear the Richard and Anne in question were the little Duke of York, son of Edward IV, and Anne Mowbray, and the wedding date was…