Christopher Urswick

THOMAS GREY MARQUESS OF DORSET – MEDIOCRE AND SHIFTY OR GOOD AND PRUDENT MAN?

Feb 17, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion

Astley Castle, Battle of Stoke, Bermondsey Abbey, bigamy, Brittany, Buckingham rebellion, canon law, Canterbury Cathedral, Cecilia Bonville, Cheneygates, Christopher Urswick, Coldridge, Croyland, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, George Neville, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry of Buckingham, illegitimacy, Jacquette, John Foxe, John Morton, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, lady anne stonor, Ludlow Castle, marriages, More, pre-contract, Reynold Bray, richard iii coronation, Richard Woodville, Second Battle of St. Albans, Sheen, Sir John Grey of Groby, sir john stonor, Sir William Stanley, Stony Stratford, T.B. Pugh, Taunton Castle, Tewkesbury, The Shadow of the Tower, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, William Lord Hastings, Wydeville plot, Wydevilles

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com Arms of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset (c.1455-1501). Wikipdia. Well, well, well. What can I say about Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset (c. 1455–1501)? A member of the voracious Wydeville/Woodville family he lived through the tumult of the Wars of the Roses, at one time ending up in a bit…
Urswick, the red rose and being the saviour of Henry VII….

Jan 3, 2023

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, religion

“Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudors”, Battle of Bosworth, Christopher Urswick, David Starkey, executions, flight, Henry VII, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, rebellions, red rose, Richard III, Sir William Stanley, Sutton House Lecture, Wqales

Well, it’s a fair bet that anything involving David Starkey is going to be anti-Richard III. If it also concerns Christopher Urswick, it’s a foregone conclusion. Both crop up in the Sutton House Lecture of (I think) 2019. It seems that “historian and TV and radio presenter David Starkey” (they forgot the comedian bit) gave…
WAS LAMBERT SIMNEL A TUDOR HOAX?

Jun 5, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, law, religion, sources

“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, AF Pollard, age, Arthur “Tudor”, attainder, banquets, Barrie Williams, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of StokeStoke, Bermondsey Abbey, Bernard Andre, Book of Howth, Cheneygates, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Christopher Urswick, Coldridge, Convocation of Canterbury, coronations, council meeting, David Baldwin, Earl of Kildare, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gordon Smith, Harleian Manuscript, Henry VII, heralds, House of York, imprisonment, Ireland, Jean Molinet, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Lincoln, John Morton, John Yonge, Lambeth Palace, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Michael Barrett, Michael Bennett, Old St. Paul’s, Oxford University, Piel Island., Polydore Vergil, Randolph Jones, re-legitimisation, Reginald Bray, revolutions, Richard Fox, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Robert Markenfield, Robert Stillington, Sheen, Sheriff Hutton, Sir John Evans, T.B. Pugh, The Dublin King, The Heralds Memoir, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, titles, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, treason, Wenceslaus Holler, Westminster Abbey, William Simmonds

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com ‘So rude a matter and so strange a thinge, As a boy in Dublin to be made a kinge..’ * Old St Paul’s where the tragic Edward Earl of Warwick was displayed in February 1487 and with ‘Lambert Simnel’ on the 8 July 1487. ‘Old St Paul’s Cathedral Seen…
Margaret Beaufort married John of Gaunt….!

Mar 24, 2020

anniversaries, genealogy, humour

Christopher Urswick, confusion, Cumbria, David Starkey, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward III, Henry IV, Henry VII, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, marriages

I always thought Starkey was a waspish prig (his public opinion of those who support Richard III is just as derogatory!) but having read this article, I think he’s slap-dash as well. Certainly he can’t be checking what goes out to herald the latest of his lectures – this one will no doubt manage…

Christopher Urswick

THOMAS GREY MARQUESS OF DORSET – MEDIOCRE AND SHIFTY OR GOOD AND PRUDENT MAN?

Urswick, the red rose and being the saviour of Henry VII….

WAS LAMBERT SIMNEL A TUDOR HOAX?

Margaret Beaufort married John of Gaunt….!