Battles of Sandwich

Did Edward III have any energy left for his Crécy campaign….?

May 15, 2024

anniversaries, battles

Battles of Sandwich, Crecy, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, France, Hundred Years War, Louise Creighton, Portsmouth

We all know that Edward III and the Hundred Years War go together, not quite like peaches and cream, but together all the same, and during a truce with France he began to prepare for renewed hostilities when the truce ended. After many long weeks of delay, the date of embarkation for his great army…
The Touchet/Audley Family in the Fifteenth Century.

Sep 26, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion

Alionore Holland, Arundels, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Battles of Sandwich, Bishop Edmund Audley, Bishop of Hereford, Blore Heath, Buckingham rebellion, Calais, Cheshire, Constance of York, Despensers, Dukes of Somerset, Edmund Holland, Edward I, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, executions, Fitzalans, Francis Viscount Lovell, Heighley Castle, Henry III, Henry VII, Isabel Mylbery, James Lord Audley, Joan Bourchier, Joan of Kent, John Lord Audley, Lord High Treasurer, Ludlow Castle, Margaret Darrell, Margaret of Anjou, Margaret Roos, Mortimer’s Cross, Parliament’s power to determine legitimacy, Red Castle, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Sir Humphrey Audley, surnames, Tewkesbury, Towton, Welsh Marches, Wydevilles

James Touchet, Lord Audley, was born about 1398. He was not in the first rank of magnates but nevertheless had significant estates, notably Heighley Castle, near Madeley in Staffordshire, and the Red Castle (Hawkstone) in Shropshire, as well as two small Marcher lordships in Wales. His first marriage was to Margaret Roos, daughter of Lord Roos…
Bosworth – only ranked 9 out of 9….!

Apr 21, 2022

anniversaries, battles

Azincourt, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Bouvines, Battle of Hastings, Battles of Sandwich, Castillon, cowardice, Crusades, Hattin, Henry VII, Mohi, Morgarten, Richard III, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, tours, treachery

Bosworth, a victory for treachery – and for cowardice, because Henry Tudor didn’t raise a finger, but lurked at the back, behind a protective screen of bodyguards As far as Ricardians are concerned, the most important (and tragic) medieval battle was Bosworth, but 22nd August 1485 only makes it to number nine of nine! See…
The Staple

Aug 24, 2019

anniversaries, battles, law

Battles of Sandwich, Bristol, Calais, First Barons’ War, Flanders, Henry III, Hundred Years War, Ipswich, London, Louis VIII, North Sea trade, past maps, Sandwich, Wars of the Roses, wool

In early medieval times, ‘the staple’ meant England’s staple export: wool. But it was inconvenient and inefficient for the king’s men to collect the customs duties that were payable on the exported wool from every one of the hundreds of little English ports all around the country. London, Bristol, Ipswich and Sandwich were major ports…

Battles of Sandwich

Did Edward III have any energy left for his Crécy campaign….?

The Touchet/Audley Family in the Fifteenth Century.

Bosworth – only ranked 9 out of 9….!

The Staple