Battle of Bosworth
-
Monarchs whose children died first….
“Tudors”, Albert Victor Duke of Clarence, Anne, Anne Boleyn, Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Battle of Bosworth, Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon, Edward of Middleham, Edward VII, Ferdinand and Isabella, Frederick Prince of Wales, George II, George III, George IV, Henry I, Henry II, Henry the Young King, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, Princess Charlotte, Richard III, Richard of Normandy, Victoria, William Adelin, William Duke of Gloucester, William IWell, here’s British Kings And Queens Who Outlived Their Children (grunge.com), a list of English/ British monarchs who outlived their children. Richard’s there, of course, and reasonably well treated. His is a particularly sad story, losing his only legitimate son, then his wife, then his own life at the hands of traitors when defending…
-
The boy who had been King Edward V….
“confessions”, “Lambert Simnel”, “Oakhanger”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, attainder, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Stoke, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Coldridge, Devon, Dublin Cathedral, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Essex, executions, fiction, fire, George Duke of Clarence, Havering atte Bower, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, hunting lodges, illegitimacy, imposture, John Earl of Lincoln, Kent, Lady Catherine Gordon, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Protector of the Realm, Ludlow Castle, Margaret of Burgundy, notebooks, Oxford, Portuguese marriage plans, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Sheen, Sir John Evans, Sir William Stanley, Spain, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Stanley, Titulus Regius, Tower of LondonLadies and gentlemen, please remember that this novella is a fictional account of what might have happened to the boys known as the Princes in the Tower. The theory about Coldridge is not my original thought, nor have I done anything personally to help prove it. To my knowledge there is nowhere called Oakhanger in Kent, let alone that it was held by the Earl of Lincoln. I…
-
… but this one is by Ursula K. leGuin, better known as a science fiction writer, before her 2018 death: Richard Loyalty bound him. Not deft, not flexible. Stanley betrayed him. Why did he fight so hard to die so sorely hurt? Did he foresee the hump, the murders, and the theft, the withered hand,…
-
We all know the story of Richard III apparently spending a night at the White Boar Inn in Leicester, on his way to his fate at Bosworth. We know of his bed, with its supposed hidden treasure, and that the inn prudently decided to rename itself the Blue Boar, to avoid Tudor wrath (of which…
-
At first glance you’d think this article by Peter Hitchens of the Mail Online is going to be in praise of Tony Blair, especially when you also see the above photograph. But the former Prime Minister only comes into it to illustrate how at least one modern myth sprang up. The article goes on the…
-
Buc
“Beauforts”, “Perkin”, “The History of King Richard III”, accuracy, Ancestry, Annette Carson, antiquaries, Arthur Kincaid, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Bigods, Catherine de Roet, character, denialists, executions, fire, George Buck, Henry VII, heralds, Hereward the Wake, Howards, illegitimacy, John of Gaunt, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lancastrians, More, notes, pre-contract, Ricardian, Richard III Society, Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, scoliosis, Scotland, Sir George Buc, Sir Hugh Swynford, Sir Robert Buck, Sir Robert Cotton, Society of Antiquaries, Statute of Merton, Stewarts, Tiberius, Titulus Regius, viva voceHere it is at last, a publication sponsored by the Society of Antiquaries and the Richard III Society. Over forty years after his last edition of Buc‘s magnum opus, Arthur Kincaid has managed to remove the “wrapping paper” added by the author’s less painstaking great-nephew and namesake so that only the original remains. Through the…
-
For pity’s sake be accurate! Is it really too much to ask for details to be correct? Apparently so. In this article The Philosopher-King (greaterkashmir.com) * I found the following: “….King Richard III’s actions helped spark the Wars of the Roses, a protracted conflict that devastated England…..” And to think I fought my way through…
-
Monarchs and the perils of legitimacy….
“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor” rebellions, Battle of Bosworth, Black Prince, coronations, Edward III, Edward IV, Henry VII, illegitimacy, Jehan de Wavrin, John of Gaunt, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, relegitimisation, Richard II, Richard III, staircases, succession, Thomas of woodstock, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, Toronto Sun, Tower of London“….In medieval and Tudor times, it was important for people to know that their king had actually died and that the succession was ‘safe’…. “….We all remember the story of the little princes in the Tower. The older of the two would have been King Edward V, had he lived. But no one ever really…
The New Murrey and Blue blog 