Anne Neville
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TEN OF THE BEST MEDIEVAL ABBEYS IN BRITAIN.
Anne Neville, Bolton Abbey, Buildwas Abbey, Byland Abbey, Coverham Abbey, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edinburgh, Edward of Middleham, Fountains Abbey, Henry VIII, Holyrood Abbey, Kirkstall Abbey, lost buildings, Melrose Abbey, Monmouthshire, Richard III, Rievaulx Abbey, Roxburghshire, ruins, Shropshire, Tintern Abbey, Whitby Abbey, YorkshireWe have lost so much over the centuries down to warfare, fire, wanton and quite senseless destruction. Perhaps the most grievous loss has been that of our once magnificent Abbeys , which even in their ruinous states are still capable of moving us by their heartbreaking beauty, captured here in stunning and evocative photography Enjoy…
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Elizabeth of York and the cult of Edward of Lancaster….
“Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Middleham, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel Neville, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Westminster AbbeyEdward, Prince of Wales, the eighteen-year-old son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471. He became the subject of an exclusive posthumous cult. The chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey tells of the Prince’s death in battle and of his burial ‘in the mydste of the covent…
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If you support Richard III and believe history has “done him wrong”, for heaven’s sake do not read The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville and the Age of Chivalry by Christopher Wilkins. I made the mistake, and it soon struck me that the author had learned by rote every single myth about Richard, and…
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Here is a link to another WordPress site, The Dragonhound. It contains an exceedingly interesting and thought-provoking article about Anne Neville’s portraits (and those of a few others). The writer puts forward a very good case for the lady in blue, on the right of the illustration above, being Richard III’s elusive queen. There is…
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CAN A PICTURE PAINT A THOUSAND WORDS?
“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Neville, art, Baynard’s Castle, Catherine Howard, Cecily Duchess of York, Edward V, Edwin Austin Abbey, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Jane, John Everett Millais, John Morton, Margaret of Salisbury, Paul Delaroche, Philip Calderon, portraits, propaganda, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Shakespeare, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Three Estates, Tower GreenUPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/can-a-picture-paint-a-thousand-words-ricardian-art/ It’s said a picture can paint a thousand words. It certainly can but not always accurately. It can distort the truth. Art work based on the Ricardian period is certainly true of this. Take for example the stunning painting by Edwin Austin Abbey, Richard Duke of Gloucester…
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UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://wordpress.com/post/sparkypus.com/449 Queen Anne Neville from the Salisbury Roll. Anne’s mantle equates her ancestorial arms with those of England and France. After Anne Neville’s death on the 16th March 1485 , she was given a magnificent funeral in Westminster Abbey ‘with honours no less than…
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UPDATED VERSION ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/20/did-richard-iii-love-anne-neville/ Thanks to the contemporaneous accounts given by Croyland (1) and the Acts of Court (2) we have a good insight into the events that followed, almost immediately, the death of Queen Anne i.e. the rumours that Richard, in his eagerness to marry his niece, hastened the death…
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Would you like a few sniggers and outright guffaws? Yes? Then I have just the book for you—Lives of England’s Monarchs by H. E. Lehman. I was searching for something specific, and for some reason Google took me first to page 182… “…Edward [IV] was a large man possessed of great leadership ability and personal…
