bigamy

So who did Anne Mowbray take after….?

Nov 18, 2018

anniversaries, art, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, Anne of Gloucester, bigamy, Canterbury Cathedral, Cecily Neville, death masks, Doyle’s Official Baronage, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Elizabeth Berkeley, Elizabeth Wydeville, facial resemblance, hair colour, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry V, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard II, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, St. Mary’s Hall Coventry, St. Mary’s Warwick, Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle, William Bourchier Count of Eu, William Lord Berkeley

What is one of the first things we say on seeing a new baby? Something along the lines of how much the new arrival takes after his/her father/mother/uncle/aunt/grandfather etc. etc. For those of us with a great interest in history, it is almost irresistible to compare various historical figures in the same way. For instance,…
Another helping of SHW

Nov 17, 2018

anniversaries, battles, humour, law

bigamy, cartoons, Caxton, Earl of Desmond, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Tewkesbury
Channel 5’s “Inside the Tower of London”

Nov 16, 2018

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science, television reviews

“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Ceremony of the Lilies and Roses, Channel Five, Charles II, coins, Colonel Blood, Colonel Thomas Blood, Constable of the Tower, crown jewels, Domenico Mancini, Duke of Wellington, Eton, executions, exhibitions, Germany, Guido Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Henry III, Henry VI, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, James VI/I, Jason Watkins, Josef Jacobs, King’s College Cambridge, Kray twins, Leonora Cohen, Long Cross Penny, More, Peasants’ Revolt, pre-contract, ravens, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, Royal Mint, Rudolf Hess, Simon of Sudbury, Sir Walter Raleigh, St. Gregory’s, Tower of London, Tracy Borman, Westminster Abbey, William I

This four-part series is narrated by Jason Watkins and heavily features Tracy Borman, Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. The first part dealt with the Peasants’ Revolt, which resulted in Simon of Sudbury‘s beheading and Borman travelled to St. Gregory’s in his home town to view the preserved head. She spoke about the animals…
Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydeville

Oct 17, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, humour, law, religion

Anne Mortimer, bigamy, Boots, Bryan Dunleavy, Despencers, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Lady Eleanor Talbot, mistresses, Pope, pre-contract, Richard Earl of Cambridge

(This letter, of which a version was published in the September 2018 Bulletin, was in response to Bryan Dunleavy’s article about Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydville.) The article in the latest Ricardian Bulletin by Bryan Dunleavy is interesting, and also provocative, given that the bulk of readers of the publication are, by definition, Ricardians. However…
Cecily Neville

Jul 15, 2018

art, Book Reviews, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

bigamy, biographies, birth dates, Cecily Neville, children, Coronation, Duchess of Norfolk, Edward IV, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Penrith church, portraits, pregnancies, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, siblings, Wars of the Roses, William of Worcester, wills, Wydevilles

As we mentioned here, Ashdown-Hill’s biography of Richard’s mother was published in April. Whilst his latest, to which we shall return later, was released today, we shall concentrate on Cecily here. This is the book that summarises Cecily’s life by delineating her full and half-siblings, demonstrating that portraits (right) previously assumed to be of her and…
THE CARMELITE FRIARY OF NORWICH KNOWN AS WHITEFRIARS – BURIAL PLACE OF ELEANOR TALBOT

Jun 30, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, law, religion

Arminghall Arch, bigamy, Blackfriars, burials, Carmelite Priory, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, friaries, George Plunkett, Henry VI, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Kenninghale, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, marriage, Norwich, Norwich Magistrates Court, Philip de Cowgate, pre-contract, Ralph Butler Baron Sudeley, Reformation, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Russell Colman, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Towton

UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-carmelite-friary-of-norwich-known-as-whitefriars-burial-place-of-eleanor-talbot/ COWGATE NORWICH, DAVID HODGSON c.1860. WHITEFRIARS STOOD ON THE EASTERN SIDE BETWEEN THE CHURCH OF ST JAMES POCKTHORPE (SEEN ABOVE) AND THE RIVER A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY..NORWICH MUSEUM On this day, 30 June, died Eleanor Butler nee Talbot. Eleanor came from an illustrious family. Her father was…
The text of Titulus Regius….

Jun 26, 2018

anniversaries, law

“Princes”, bigamy, Edward IV, illegitimacy, Lady Eleanor Talbot, legislation, Richard III, Rolls of Parliament, secret marriage, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, Wydevilles

This site provides the text of Titulus Regius in full – in understandable English! Worth a look.
The meeting of the three Estates, 25 June 1483

Jun 25, 2018

anniversaries, law, religion

bigamy, Bishop of Carlisle, Bishops, Edward IV, Edward V, Henry IV, illegitimacy, mortimer claim, Parliament, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III, Sir Richard Rich, Thomas More, Three Estates

It was not the first time that a Convention Parliament had effectively determined the succession. We might look, for example, the precedent of 1399, when just such an assembly deposed Richard II and (in effect) elected Henry IV, who was not even Richard II’s right heir. (He was the heir male, but strangely enough did…
An enquiry

Jun 8, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion

“Eleanor”, Affinity, bigamy, Edward I, Edward IV, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Henry Duke of Somerset, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Marie Barnfield, Parliament, secret marriage

Today in 1461, Lady Eleanor Talbot married Edward IV, either on her Warwickshire lands or in Norfolk. As Ashdown-Hill has shown, she was older than Edward, a widow, from a Lancastrian background and the ceremony took place in secret during the spring, five factors that also apply to Edward’s bigamous marriage almost three years later.…
Women were abducted in medieval England….

Mar 21, 2018

Book Reviews, law

abduction, bigamy, canon law, mediaeval life, mediaeval women

The above book, Stolen Women in Medieval England, by Caroline Dunn, is subtitled Rape, Abduction and Adultery 1100-1500. This subtitle is well earned, because all three activities become very tangled indeed in those records that survive of cases that reached courts. The general impression the modern world has of medieval women is that they were…