anniversaries
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Quite an unfortunate family
“Popish Plot”, anniversaries, beheadings, Edward of Buckingham, England, executions, France, French Revolution, General Arthur Dillon, Henry of Buckingham, Lady Margaret Bulmer, Pilgrimage of Grace, Place de la Concorde, Salisbury, Smithfield, Staffords, Thomas Stafford, Tower Green, William Howard Viscount StaffordHenry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, cannot be called unlucky. The story of his revolt against Richard III, ending in Salisbury at the start of November 1483 is so well known that even Shakespeare has the right end of this particular stick. However, his family suffered fates that they didn’t always deserve so obviously: 1)…
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http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliamentandireland/overview/poynings-law/ This should be considered along with: Edmund Mortimer’s service in Ireland before the Southampton Plot, Richard Duke of York as Lord Lieutenant in the 1440s/50s, where George of Clarence was born, The coronation of “Lambert Simnel” in Dublin, to be clarified next month.
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Today is the annniversary of the death in 1416 of Constance of York, Lady Despenser and (for a time) Countess of Gloucester. She was one of many people of various conditions in life who inexplicably preferred the ‘tyranny’ of Richard II to the rule of Henry IV, and put their lives at risk to do…
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……….. was beheaded on the last day of April 1513, having left England in 1501 but returned by misadventure the following year. Evidently his departure, in the aftermath of his cousins’ executions was motivated by his desire to remain alive, whilst his demise did not end “Tudor” paranoia over those with a better lineal claim…
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What an interesting week this is. On 25 February 1475 Edward, son of the Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville, was born. He already had an elder sister, Margaret, although two other siblings died in infancy. By his third birthday, Edward had lost both his parents and his father’s attainder barred him from succeeding to…
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