avarice

Henry Tudor treated Elizabeth Woodville with kindness and generosity….!

Apr 28, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, law, religion

“Lambert Simnel”, avarice, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Stoke, Bermondsey Abbey, convents, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, lands, Richard III, Simnel rebellion, wealth

Hmm, yes. If you believe the above heading you’ll believe anything. Let me explain it. Back in 2013 I read this article this article, which is pro-Richard and follows the facts in general. But then everything was spoiled in the comments at the end, one of which contained the following:- “….Richard met his fate on…
KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Apr 6, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, The play’s the thing

AA Milne, Angevin bloodline, Anglicanism, annulment, Arthur of Brittany, Ascension Day, authorship, avarice, Barons, burials, Cardinal Pandulph, character, charles forker, clergymen, Crowland Chronicle, Defender of the Faith, Earls of Essex, Edward Hall, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Eucharist, excommunication, Fauconbridge brothers, Geoffrey Plantagenet, George Peel, graham Seel, Henry, Henry the Young King, Henry VIII, Historiography, House of York, Hubert de Bergh, Innocent III, John, john Bale, John Dover-Wilson, John Gillingham, John Harvey, John Matusiak, John Wycliffe, Kit Marlowe, Lackland, Louis VIII, Magna Carta, male primogeniture, Mary I, Maude Plantagenet, Mirabeau, morality plays, Phillip Augustus, plays, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, recusants, Reformation, Richard Green, Richard Hunne, Richard I, Robin Hood, royal burials, sir brian vickers, Sir James Holt, Six Articles, Softsword, Staffords, stephen langton, Stuarts, Tillyard, Walt Disney, Wilfred Warren, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, Worcester Cathedral

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came across him, When walking in the town, Gave him a supercilious stare, Or passed with noses in the air, And…
Even Stanley suffered because of Henry VII’s avarice….

Oct 30, 2018

buildings

Anne Neville, avarice, british History Online, Chesilhurst, Dartford Manor, Dartford Priory, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Isabel Neville, John Brooke Lord Cobham, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Thomas Lord Stanley

This concerns Dartford Manor (and then priory) in Kent (above), of which you can read more at https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/02/DDAG/08/20.htm and http://www.akentishceremony.com/kcc-register-offices/the-manor-gatehouse/ My interest lies in the history of the manor, i.e. pre-Henry VIII. The following, which is taken from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp2-22, seems at first not to concern Dartford Manor, but its pattern of ownership is the same,…
Was Henry VII always so clever….?

Apr 21, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

“Beauforts”, “Lancastrian”, “Tudor” propaganda, “Tudors”, avarice, Battle of Bosworth, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII, historians, Historiography, Legitimacy, mythology, tyranny, Wales

Yet again, I tell you the old story of looking for one thing and happening on something else. This time an article that questions the ultimate effectiveness of Henry VII’s reign. Well, rather it raises questions that historians don’t seem to have asked before now. It is well worth reading, especially as there are links to other…
What if Henry VII had been good-looking and charming….?

Apr 1, 2018

art, battles

avarice, Battle of Bosworth, cowardice, Elizabeth I, Henry VII, Richard III, Sir William Stanley

It occurred to me today that when it comes to being so very supportive of Richard III, we are helped (in a manner of speaking) by Henry Tudor being such a visual horror. Yes, truly. He was ugly inside and out. Loathsome. And his legacy of the House of Tudor was only brightened by Elizabeth…
HENRY VII’S HATED HENCHMEN

Jan 28, 2018

anniversaries

advisers, Annette Carson, avarice, BBC History Magazine, Edmund Dudley, executions, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Henry Wyatt, Merton College Oxford, Richard Empson, Richard III, Scotland, Steven Gunn

Here is a link to an interesting article first published in the BBC History Magazine in October 2016. Written by Steven Gunn, a professor of early modern history at Merton College, Oxford, the article gives appraisals of five of the ‘upstart’ advisers who Henry came to rely upon and their varying fates. Professor Gunn, however,…
The ten worst Britons in history?

Sep 15, 2017

anniversaries, art, battles

“Popish Plot”, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, avarice, BUF, censorship, Cnut, Culloden, de heretico comburendo, Eadric Streona, Edmund Ironside, executions, Henry II, History Extra, Hugh le Despenser, Jack the Ripper, Jacobites, John, murder, perjury, Reformation, Sir Oswald Mosley, Sir Richard Rich, Thomas Becket, Titus Oates, torture, treachery, Whitechapel murders, William Duke of Cumberland

This is a very entertaining and well-illustrated 2006 article, choosing one arch-villain for each century from the eleventh to the twentieth. The all-male list includes just one King but two Archbishops of Canterbury. So what do you think?
Was Henry Vll mean? His funeral – and other – Expenses.

Apr 21, 2017

anniversaries

Anne, avarice, Charles I, dancing, Elizabeth of York, Excerpta Historica, funeral effigy, gambling, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Mark Duffy, royal tombs, Royal tombs of Mediaeval England, Samuel Bentley, St. george’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/19/was-henry-vii-mean-his-funeral-and-other-expenses/ Effigies of Henry Vll and Elizabeth of York by Torrigiano Henry died on 21 April 1509. Henry has come down through history as something of a miser, a tightwad. Whether this is undeserved or otherwise , I do not know, although his Privy Purse Expenses make very…