Battle of Northampton

Edward IV’s (illegitimate) daughter Margaret.

Mar 29, 2024

battles, genealogy, law, religion

Anne Montagu, Battle of Northampton, Edward IV, George Lumley, Hicks, illegitimacy, Lumleys, Margaret Lucy, Marie, Ricardian articles, Sir Lewis John, Sir Thomas Lumley, Sir William Lucy, Stephen Lark, The Family of Thomas More, Towton

There is no doubt that Margaret Plantagenet (if we may call her that) existed. She married Thomas Lumley (1462-1502) the son and heir of George, Lord Lumley (1445-1507). Though her name is given as ‘Elizabeth’ in some sources, contemporary documentation reveals that she was in fact ‘Margaret’. What is less certain is who her mother…
Meet the Brownes

Feb 18, 2024

battles, buildings, genealogy, law, sources

Anne Boleyn, Battle of Northampton, Calais, Edmund de la Pole, Edward IV, elizabeth countess of worcester, Elizabeth Despenser, elizabeth paston, executions, fines, george browne, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, kentish rebellion, lucy neville, Merciless Parliament, paranoia, Richard III, Sir Anthony Browne, sir thomas browne, Tewkesbury, Thomas Penn, tong castle, treason, william fitzwilliam

Sir Thomas Browne (abt. 1402-1460) was a fervid Lancastrian. This is no doubt the reason that after the Battle of Northampton, he was either beheaded or hanged, drawn and quartered. (Sources differ). He was found guilty of High Treason, a bit of a stretch given that Henry VI was still King at the time and…
Various Goings on in the General Area of Cheshire.

Aug 14, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry

Battle of Northampton, Battle of Shrewsbury, Blore Heath, Cheshire, Chester Castle, Chirk Castle, Clwyd, Coventry, de Bohun, Dee estuary, Duke of Norfolk, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, executions, fee-farm, Henry Duke of Somerset, Hexham, Holt, Holt Castle, House of Lancaster, Jasper “Tudor”, John Neville, John Paston III, John Southworth, Lancashire, Margaret of Anjou, Mold Fair, Nantwich, Redbank, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Sir William Stanley, Skipton Castle, swan, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Neville

Although Cheshire was fiercely loyal to Richard II, after the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403) that loyalty gradually transferred itself to the House of Lancaster. Cheshire was a royal earldom and palatinate, with the King (or the Prince of Wales when there was one) as its immediate lord. As in next-door Lancashire, there was no resident…
The OTHER MARGARET BEAUFORT

Dec 28, 2022

anniversaries, battles

“Princes”, Battle of Northampton, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Beaufort, Salisbury, Sir Richard Darrell, Staffords, The Cornish Rebellion, William Viscount Stafford

When anyone hears the name ‘Margaret Beaufort’, they always think instantly of the mother of Henry Tudor. However, there was another Margaret Beaufort, who also had a famous son called Henry, whose mother also bore the surname Beauchamp, who married one of the Staffords, and who was widowed young and remarried—although there her life…
The Wandering Butler: John, 6th Earl of Ormond

Dec 14, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources

“Perkin”, Act of Resumption, Anne Boleyn, Anne Welles, Archbishop Talbot, attainders, bastardy, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, Burgundy, Butlers, Butlers of Desmond, Captain of Calais, Charles the Bold, Chief Butler of Ireland, Cockermouth Castle, consanguinity, County Kilkenny, Earls of Desmond, Earls of Ormond, Edmund MacRichard Butler, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Elizabeth of York, Ellice Barry, entail mail, First Battle of St. Albans, Guisnes, Henry of Buckingham, Ireland, Jerusalem, Joan Beauchamp, Joan Chaworth, justiciar of Ireland, Kilkenny Castle, Killone Abbey, languages, law studies, Lincoln’s Inn, Lord Grey of Codnor, Louis XI, Ludford Bridge, Margaret of Burgundy, marriages, Munster. Avice Stafford, naval fleet, nuns, ODNB, Peerage of Ireland, Piers Butler, Piltown, Portugal, Pronothary of Bourbon, Raghnailt, Readeption, Richard III, Rome, royal pensions, Sandwich, Scotland, Sir Edmund Mortimer, Sixtus IV, Statute of Kilkenny, Stephen Ellis, Tadhg King of Thomond, Thomas Earl of Desmond, Tipperary, Wars of the Roses, Waterford, Wydevilles

FAMILY BACKGROUND The Lancastrian leader who faced – or failed to face – Thomas, Earl of Desmond, at the Battle of Piltown in 1462 was the fourth of the five children born to James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond (otherwise known as the White Earl), and his countess Joan Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, Lord…
ORCHESTON & THE DUKES OF BUCKINGHAM

Jan 11, 2022

battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, churches, Edward Darell, Edward of Buckingham, executions, fonts, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VIII, Hugh de Audley, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Orcheston, Seymours, Staffords, Wiltshire

During lockdown, I found myself walking around local villages, some that I had only passed through before. An interesting one was Orcheston, a tiny, sleepy place which has not one, but TWO medieval churches, St George’s and St Mary’s, one set at either end of the village. Both were interesting to visit but what was…
The “awkward mediaeval cities” (2) : Northampton

Dec 16, 2021

anniversaries, battles, religion, Science, sources, travel

artillery, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, Bletchley, coaches, delapre Abbey, Dissolution of the Monasteries, DNA, Edward I, Eleanor of Castile, Fotheringhay, Francis Crick, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Northampton Castle, Oxford, Peterborough, rail journeys, Richard III, siege of Roxburgh, St. Albans, St. Thomas Becket, Stony Stratford, trials, Weston Favell

Another such is Northampton. Like Oxford, most (all in fact) of the trains run to or from London, although the latter will reconnect to Cambridge in a few years, with Milton Keynes and Northampton joining the line via Bletchley. Northampton is only currently accessible from East Anglia via London, Birmingham, or switching to a coach…
SALISBURY GREY FRIARS–BUCKINGHAM’S BURIAL SITE?

Nov 2, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Anne Stafford, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VIII, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, John Ashdown-Hill, Leicester, Reformation, Richard III, Salisbury Greyfriars, secret tunnels

Salisbury Grey Friars has all but disappeared from the archaeological record. Founded in 1225-8 , it was never a very large house, situated near the still impressive medieval St Ann’s Gate leading into Salisbury’s Cathedral Close. At the reformation, Grey Friars was destroyed and any extant buildings and stonework sold off and re-used (several…
It WASN’T the Battle of Edgecote Moor, it was the Battle of Edgcote….

Jul 24, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles

Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Northampton, Edgecote, errors, executions, Graham Turner, Hedgeley Moor, Mike Ingram, Northamptonshire Battlefields Society, Richard Woodville, Royal Mail, Sir John Woodville, stamps

On Monday, 24th July 1469, was fought the Battle of Edgecote Moor, and 549 years later, on 26th July 2018, I was being informative about it here . Except I had my facts wrong. It wasn’t Edgecote Moor, it was just plain Edgcote or sometimes Edgecote, but just that one word! Apparently I was…
New Wars of the Roses postage stamps showing Graham Turner’s magnificent paintings….!

May 1, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles

Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, David Grummitt, First Battle of St. Albans, Graham Turner, stamps, Tewkesbury, Towton, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses

Wow! These new postage stamps are brilliant. So colourful and truly interesting. Well done whoever chose to do this, and well done even more Graham Turner for his amazing paintings. Among the other battle scenes depicted are Wakefield, Towton, First Battle of St Albans, Tewkesbury and Northampton.