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Catesby family

Plantagenet actors….?

Jan 4, 2015

genealogy

Benedict Cumberbatch, Catesby family, Charles II, Hollow Crown, Kit Harrington, Leicester Mercury, Richard III

Yesterday there was a comment on a Facebook group by a lady named Elizabeth Borson, that Kit Harington, the actor who plays Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones”, is a descendant of William Catesby, Richard III’s advisor. Kit is apparently also descended from Charles II, but it is Richard’s era that is of interest to…
The Hundred Years’ Grudge?

Oct 28, 2014

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

Ashby St Ledgers, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Catesby family, Gunpowder Plot, Henry VII, James VI/I, Robin Catesby, William Catesby

William Catesby, a Northamptonshire lawyer, was one of only three people executed in the aftermath of Bosworth, the others being a West Country father and son. From this and other circumstantial evidence, we are inexorably drawn to the conclusion that this happened because he was the only surviving layman who knew the details of Edward…