bigamy

William “Waste-all” Berkeley, the lord who out-Stanleyed the Stanleys at Bosworth….!

Feb 13, 2018

anniversaries, battles, heraldry

Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Berkeley Castle, bigamy, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Forest of Dean, Henry VI, Henry VII, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Margaret of Shrewsbury, Nibley Green, private battles, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Humphrey Talbot, Sir William Stanley, Stanleys, Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle, treachery, William Lord Berkeley, Wotton

Here is the story of yet another lord who betrayed Richard III at Bosworth. Oh, but wait a moment, this one betrayed Henry Tudor as well, now there’s a feat! The man in question was William, eventually Marquess of Berkeley, but nicknamed “Waste-all”. He was 43 when he won the Battle of Nibley Green, which…
1484 – TITULUS REGIUS: FACT OR FICTION?

Jan 23, 2018

anniversaries, law, sources

“Tudor” propaganda, A R Myers, AE Houseman, Arthur Conan Doyle, attainder, Barnard Castle, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Buckingham rebellion, Calais, Charles Ross, Charles Wood, Chrimes, Chris Skidmore, Clements Markham, Commines, Coronation, Crowland Chronicle, David Horspool, depositions, Edward II, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Eleanor Cobham, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Fabyan, George Duke of Clarence, Grafton, Henry Kelly, Henry of Buckingham, Henry Riley, Henry VII, historians, Historiography, Horace Walpole, Humphrey of Gloucester, illegitimacy, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Joan of Navarre, John Daunger, John Home, John Morton, John Russell, John Stacy, King’s Council, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lander, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, Mancini, Margery Jourdemayne, mediaeval canon law, minority kings, Mortimer Levine, National Archives, Northampton, Parliament, Parliamentary Roll, Paul Murray Kendall, petition to Richard III, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Roger Bolingbroke, Rosemary Horrox, Scottish border, Simon Stallworth, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir Richard Grey, Sir William Stonor, Stony Stratford, Thomas Blake, Thomas Bourchier, Thomas Burdet, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Rotherham, Thomas Southwell, Thomas Wake, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, Treaty of Troyes, Walpurg, witchcraft, Wydevilles, York

Introduction ‘ ‘This is indeed a mystery’ I remarked.’ What do you think it means?’‘I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suite theories, instead of theories to suite facts.’ In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story A Scandal…
Is Dan Jones beginning to understand …

Dec 18, 2017

genealogy, law, Science

Bertram Fields, bigamy, Catherine de Valois, Dan Jones, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward IV, G.L.Harriss, Henry Cardinal Beaufort, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, mediaeval canon law, Owen Tudor, pre-contract, questions of paternity, remarriage of royal stepmothers, Royal Blood, Royal Marriage Secrets

… what is really likely to have happened in the fifteenth century (as Harriss, Ashdown-Hill and Fields strongly suspect)? At this rate, he will soon learn the fact of the pre-contract and how canon law works.
Dark Sovereign (1)

Nov 24, 2017

The play’s the thing

bigamy, Dark Sovereign, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry of Buckingham, new plays, Richard III, Robert S.P. Fripp

This is the first of our extracts from this innovative Robert Fripp play, concerning Edward IV’s bigamous marriage to Elizabeth Wydeville: Two spirits, identical twin sisters Truth and Rumour, discuss the personality of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, while she embroiders onstage: Our next extract will feature the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham.…
ANNE MOWBRAY – DUCHESS OF NORFOLK – HER REBURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Nov 19, 2017

archaeology, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, anniversaries, Bernard Barrell, bigamy, Duchy of Norfolk, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Framlingham Castle, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lawrence Tanner, Leman Street, Lord Mowbray, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, St Clare Without, St Stephens Chapel, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/anne-mowbray-duchess-of-norfolk-child-bride-of-one-of-the-princes-in-the-tower-her-reburial-in-westminster-abbey/ St Erasmus in Bishops Islip’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey by Joseph Mallord William Turner c.1796. The original chapel of St Erasmus, built by Elizabeth Wydeville, was the site of Anne Mowbray’s first burial and after recovery of her coffin she was reburied in the rebuilt Chapel. Anne…
Serial bigamy and murder again – the Henry VIII of Chicago?

Nov 17, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, Science

bigamy, Chicago, fraud, George Joseph Smith, Herman Webster Mudgett, murder, Murder Castle, serial killers, World’s Fair

On the left is Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, an American serial killer executed in May 1896 whilst a few days short of his thirty-fifth birthday. On the right is the “murder castle”, replete with trapdoors, sealed rooms and poison gas, he built in Chicago for the 1893 “World’s Fair” and from which at least…
Another SHW selection

Nov 13, 2017

art

Anne Neville, bastardy, bigamy, cartoons, Edward IV, humour, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Richard III, SHW
Significant opportunities missed?

Oct 30, 2017

anniversaries, religion

Archbishop Cranmer, attainder, Bath and Wells, bigamy, Bishops, books, David Baldwin, deprival, Durham, Edward IV, Edward V, Ely, Exeter, exile, Gairdner, Hugh Pavy, John Morton, John Shirwood, Lionel Woodville, Peter Courtenay, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Salisbury, St. David’s, Thomas Langton, Thomas Wolsey, Three Estates, treason, William Dudley

Robert Stillington is likely to have been born in about 1420 and was consecrated as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465. As we know, in spring 1483, he confessed his knowledge of Edward IV’s bigamy. Based on Stillington’s evidence, the Three Estates voted to cancel the coronation of Edward V, inviting Richard…
Edward de Wigmore existed, and left descendants….

Jul 9, 2017

genealogy

“Princes”, bigamy, Charles Wigmore, CP Snow, Edward de Wigmore, Edward IV, Garter King of arms, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Norwich, PreContract, Richard III, Stamford

The general consensus is that there never was an Edward de/of Wigmore. Indeed, many say that his supposed parents were never an item at all, let alone married. The parents are, of course, Edward IV and Lady Eleanor Talbot. Their marriage is the mysterious pre-contract, the revelation of which in 1483 catapulted Richard III…
A simple statement of fact …

Jun 30, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

bigamy, Blore Heath, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, illegitimacy, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Sudeley Castle, Thomas Butler

… as shown at Sudeley Castle.