Cecily Duchess of York
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What follows was written entirely by Caroline Tilley, Senior Reporter of the Daily Gazette/Essex County Standard Secret marriages, scandalous affairs and one of the best-kept secrets in English history…. WHEN you have helped to unearth arguably the greatest historical find of the 21st century, some people might decide to put their feet up. Not Dr John…
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… “Primary School Challenge”? According to one of the Cambridge teams on January 9th, Edward IV and Edward V had the same mother. According to Jeremy Paxman, Margaret “Beaufort” was married to the Duke of Burgundy. To be fair, she did marry four times, even though the first was annulled. Oh dear. Weshall have to…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Sarah Gristwood’s book, ‘Blood Sisters’ looks at the lives and reputations of seven key women who lived through the tumultuous and deadly years of the ‘Cousins War’ in C15th England and who changed the course of our national story by their actions. I particularly wanted to read this book because…
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The True History of King Richard III (Part IV)
Blore Heath, Cecily Duchess of York, Doctor Stiffkey, Edmund of Rutland, education, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Lady Mortimer, Lancastrians, Lancastrians In Need, Ludford Bridge, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Margaret of Anjou, Parliament, propaganda, Richard III, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, sack of LudlowThe sack of Ludlow 1459 Richard’s first teacher was Lady Mortimer, who taught him handwriting and country dancing. As Lady Mortimer’s late husband had been on the very fringe (almost dropping off the end) of Richard’s family tree, she also taught him something of genealogy, and he discovered that he was descended from Lionel, Duke…
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TREASON 2 – The Parliament Of Devils, 1459
“Loveday”, Alison Hanham, Anthony Goodman, attainder, Bellamy, Bertram Wolffe, Blore Heath, Calais, Cecily Duchess of York, Chris Givern-Wilson, Colehill, Coventry, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, First Battle of St. Albans, forfeiture, Garter King of arms, Henry VI, Jack Cade, John Duke of Somerset, Kenilworth, Kent, Lancastrians, Ledbury, Lord Audley, Lord Powis, Lord Protector of the Realm, Ludford Bridge, Ludlow, Margaret of Anjou, Market Drayton, Merciless Parliament, Middleham, Parliament of Devils, Paul Murray Kendall, Ralph Griffiths, Richard Duke of York, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, Rosemary Horrox, Severn, Sir Andrew Trollope, Sir henry Radford, St. Paul’s, Thomas Lord Stanley, treason, Treason Acts, Walsall, Walter Devereux, Wars of the Roses, William Duke of Suffolk, Worcester, YorkistsIntroduction This is the second of two articles I have written about treason. In the first article, I wrote about the Merciless Parliament of 1388 at which eighteen of king Richard II’s closest advisors and friends were tried by parliament and condemned as traitors, against the king’s wishes. In this article I am writing about…
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King Arthur, King Richard and the Wars of the Roses….
Anne Neville, Anthony Woodville, Arthurian legend, Cecily Duchess of York, Charles VIII, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Francis Lovell, Gawain, George Duke of Clarence, Guinevere, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, Holy Grail, Isabel Neville, John Earl of Lincoln, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Morton, John of Gloucester, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancelot, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Margaret of Anjou, Merlin, Middleham, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, Viscount WellesThe following is just a little diversion; the result of that strange half–world we go into when we’re dropping off to sleep. There I was, not counting sheep, but matching Arthurian characters with figures from the Wars of the Roses. Now, I am not an expert on Arthur, or indeed on Richard, just an amateur…
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We hope this book, which explores the spiritual aspect of Richard’s physical rediscovery, is self-explanatory: Something quite different, this book gives both details of Richard’s history with a nod towards the religious belief of the time. It also delves quite deeply into medieval mysticism, which we know was favoured by the King’s mother, Cecily Neville.…
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KING’S GAMES: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD III
Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, book review, Cecily Duchess of York, character, Earl of Northumberland, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Francis Lovell, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, historical fiction, Isobel Neville, Josephine Tey, King’s Games, Minster Lovell, Nance Crawford, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard III, Shakespeare, Sir William Stanley, Stoke Field, Thomas Lord StanleyA Verse Play in Two Acts with Commentaries By Nance Crawford “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (Hamlet) To be honest, I am not much taken with modern Ricardian fiction. I think that in the last five centuries too much fiction and too little fact has been written about…
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The True History of King Richard III (Part 2)
Anne of Exeter, Baynard’s Castle, Berkhamsted, Cecily Duchess of York, Earl of Northumberland, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Fotheringhay, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Somerset, Henry VI, John Duke of Somerset, John Duke of Suffolk, Lord Clifford, Lord Egremont, Ludlow, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Margaret of Anjou, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, Sandal Castle, satire, Sir Richard Croft, St. AlbansThe Battle of St. Albans, 1455. Having been two years in the womb, Richard was naturally a forward child, and in no time at all he was not only walking but wearing a little suit of armour. The Duke of York had this made for him by the village blacksmith, an advanced craftsman who doubled…
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