Barons Scrope of Bolton
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Another interesting article from Academia
“Lambert Simnel”, abeyance, Academia, allegiance, Anne Neville, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Barons Scrope of Masham, Bolton Abbey, Buckingham rebellion, Cicely Plantagenet, Domenico Mancini, Elizabeth Neville, Elizabeth Scrope, executions, Francis Viscount Lovell, Greystoke, Henry IV, Henry V, indenture, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, Marquess of Montagu, marriages, Northern Rising, pardons, property, Ralph Scrope, Richard III, Scottish campaign 1482, Sir Humphrey Stafford, Southampton plot, Stoke Field, titles, Warden of the West Marches, YorkshireThis one, by Lorraine C. Attreed, is entitled An Indenture between Richard Duke of Gloucester and the Scrope Family of Masham and Upsall, one of the two noble branches of the Scropes, the other being those of Bolton. The indenture, a copy of which serves as an appendix, dates from mid-January 1476 shortly after the…
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Of a well-connected art expert …
baronets, Barons of Ebury, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Barringtons, Britain’s lost Masterpieces, Charles Manners-Sutton, Chester, Dan Snow, Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, Dukes of Westminster, Jacobite portraiture, James VI/I, Justin Welby, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, racehorses, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Rubens, Scrope/ Grosvenor case, van Dyck, William PykenhamAfter a few Archbishops of Canterbury and an Archdeacon (perhaps), we now come to an expert on art – Old Masters and Jacobite art in particular. Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, as seen in this BBC2 series when he has identified portraits such as the first Villiers Duke of Buckingham, is descended from the Cheshire family that…
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What really happened with Princess Cecily’s first two marriages….?
“Princes”, Alexander Stewart Duke of Albany, annulments, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Battle of Bosworth, Bishop of Durham, british History Online, Cicely Plantagenet, Complete Peerage, consanguinity, dispensations, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward III, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Essex, Gaynesparc, Hatfield, Isle of Wight, James III, James IV, Joan “Beaufort”, Joan of Kent, John Scrope of Bolton, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, Lionel Baron Welles, Margaret Beauchamp, pardons, plots, Ralph Scrope, Richard Fox, Richard III, royal marriages, Scotland, Scottish campaign 1482, Scropes of Masham, Sharon Champion, Thomas Holland, Thomas Kymbe, Tony Riches, Tower of London, Viscount WellesThe following extract is from Not So Fortunate As Fair’: The Life of Princess Cecily Plantagenet by Sharon Champion:- “….At the age of five, she [Cecily] was betrothed to James, the infant son and heir of James III of Scotland. John 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton was sent as commissioner to negotiate a contract of…
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A further selection of Scropes….
Anthony Woodville, Aquitaine, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Barons Scrope of Masham, castles, Cokayne, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Wiltshire, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, executions, Henry IV, Henry Scrope Baron Masham, Henry V, Ian Mortimer, Joan Holland, John of Gaunt, Lord Treasurer, Lord Willoughby, Order of the Garter, Owain Glyn Dwr, Parliament, Philippa de Bryan, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, rebellion, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Richard Scrope Archbishop of York, Richard Scrope Bishop of Carlisle, Sir Edmund Mortimer, Sir William Plumpton, Southampton plot, summary executions, T.B. Pugh, Thomas Mowbray Earl of Norfolk, Vice-Chamberlain, William Scrope, York MinsterThe name “Scrope” was usually pronounced, and sometimes spelled, as “Scroop”.am To follow yesterday’s post: – William, Earl of Wiltshire c1351-1399 William was the second son of Richard Scrope, first Baron Scrope of Bolton. In his younger days he was sometimes associated with John of Gaunt, who made him Seneschal of Aquitaine in 1383. Subsequently, he…
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