Cecily Neville
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We don’t always learn in time about events that are of interest to our readers, but here’s one that will take place on 25 January 2025! If you go to this link Women of the Wars of the Roses – A Day of Short Talks at Southwark Cathedral (ianvisits.co.uk) you’ll read of a day of…
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‘Cecily‘, a novel by author Annie Garthwaite about the life of Richard III and Edward IV‘s mother has been optioned for TV by Just John Films, a newly launched company headed by actors Kate Phillips, Amber Anderson and Rosie Day, who have appeared in such shows as Peaky Blinders, Good Omens, Black Mirror and Outlander.…
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Salon Privé, a magazine with interesting articles about some of “our” historic figures….
“Princes”, Arthur “Tudor”, Cecily Neville, Edward of Lancaster, executions, Geoffrey Plantagenet, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VIII, Isabel Neville, Jane Shore, Jasper “Tudor”, Lord Bonville, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Salon Prive, Sir Thomas Kyriell, Tewkesbury, Wars of the Roses, Westminster AbbeyA new (to me) magazine has come to my attention. Salon Privé Magazine was founded in 2008 and very definitely “coffee table material”. Anyway, the publication came to my attention when an article about George of Clarence popped into my inbox. The article was factual and impartial, which made a pleasant change. And Richard, Duke…
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A VISIT TO KING’S LANGLEY
Anne Mortimer, camels, Cecily Neville, Christmas, Clarendon Palace, clocks, Dominican friaries, Edmund of Langley, Edward II, Edward III, Eleanor of Castile, fire, Henry III, Henry IV, Isabel of Castile, Joan of Navarre, John of Wheathampstead, King’s Langley, palaces, Piers Gaveston, Reformation, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, royal tombsKing’s Langley was once home to a massive Plantagenet palace, built out of the remnants of a hunting lodge of Henry III for Edward I’s Queen, Eleanor of Castile. She furnished it lavishly, with carpets and baths. There were shields decorating the hall and a painted picture of four knights going to a tournament, while…
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A few years back I wrote about Buckden Towers in Cambridgeshire, the old palace of the Bishops of Lincoln. Finally, with the pandemic receding, I was able to visit the site in its small village (once a thriving place in coaching times and earlier but much diminished with the advent of the railways.) Here Richard…
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In the teeth of the evidence
age, Anne Mortimer, battle injuries, Battle of Bosworth, Cecily Neville, combination of evidence, denialists, Dominic Selwood, Dukes of Beaufort, era, height, House of York, Leicester cathedral, Leicester Greyfriars, Looking for Richard Project, Michael Hicks, Michael Ibsen, mtDNA evidence, Plantagenets, Richard III, scoliosis, Wendy DuldigHere, a little-known television journalist-historian named Dominic Selwood disputes the identity of Richard III’s remains, despite the mtDNA match with collateral descendants in Canada and Australia, their height, age of death, era of death, scoliosis, battle injuries, region of origin and the location of his original burial at the choir of the Greyfriars. In fact…
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RALPH NEVILLE, 2ND EARL OF WESTMORLAND – HIS HOME, BRANCEPETH CASTLE AND BURIAL IN BRANCEPETH CHURCH.
AJ Pollard, Beaufort family., Brancepeth, Brancepeth Castle, Bulmer Tower, Cecily Neville, Charles Alfred Stothard, Chrimes, Cockermouth, dysentery, effigies, Elizabeth Holland, fire, Haltemprice Priory, incapacity, James Petre, Joanna Laynesmith, Lancastrians, Link Block, Lord John Neville, Margaret Cobham, Margaret Stafford, Middleham, Neville Tower, Nevilles, Nikolaus Pevsner, Ralph 2nd Earl of Westmorland, Ricardian articles, Richard of Salisbury, Ripon, Roche Abbey, Sheriff Hutton, Verneuil, W.E. Hampton, willsREBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @sparkypus.com Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland c.1406-1484 and one of his wives. Fine oak effigy once in Brancepeth Church, County Durham. Destroyed 1998. Drawn by Charles Stothard c.1815. An interesting life if somewhat tinged by tragedy. Ralph Neville 2nd Earl of Westmorland, born at Cockermouth in Cumbria (c.1406-1485) was…
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Richard’s other Anglo-Saxon ancestry, inter alia
Anglo-Saxons, Anne Mortimer, Brian Boru, Cecily Neville, de Clares, Diarmaid MacMurchada, Edgar the Atheling, Edith of Scotland, Edmund Ironside, Edward IV, Elgiva, Elizabeth de Burgh, Ethelred II, Henry I, House of Wessex, Hungary, Ireland, Joan “Beaufort”, Lionel of Antwerp, Llewellyn Fawr, Malcolm III, Nevilles, Raby Castle, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Reading Abbey, Richard III, St. Margaret of Wessex, Strathclyde, WalesRichard’s ancient ancestors was composed a few years ago to illustrate Richard III’s descent from heroes of the home nations: Alfred the Great (many times over, but two divergent lines soon afterwards), Malcolm III (Canmore), Llewellyn Fawr and Brian Boru.Slides 2-3 show not just the well-known connection through Edmund II (Ironside), St. Margaret of Wessex and…
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