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Colonel Ralph Assheton

The rise and fall of Sir Thomas Molyneux’s Cuerdale Hall in Lancashire….

Feb 27, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, sources

british History Online, Colonel Ralph Assheton, Cuerdale Hoard, John of Gaunt, Lancashire, Radcot Bridge, Ralph Holinshed, Richard II, Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland, Sir thomas molyneux, thomas mortimer

My meanderings in the name of research sometimes turn up things that rather bemuse me. This time I was in hot pursuit of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Cuerdale, who was murdered rather nastily by Thomas Mortimer Thomas Mortimer at the Battle of Radcot Bridge on 19 December 1387. Molyneux had once been John of…
Yet another C17 coincidence

Jan 25, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Nantwich, Battle of Preston, Battle of Whalley, coincidence, Colonel Ralph Assheton, English Civil War, James Earl of Stanley, Lancashire, Long Parliament, Members of Parliament, memorial brass, Middleton Church, namesakes, Parliamentary army, Richard Neville, Richard of Warwick, self-denying ordinance, Thomas Fairfax, Vice Constable of England

The English Civil War often looked like Round Two of the Wars of the Roses with, geographically, Yorkists morphing into Parliamentarians and Lancastrians becoming Royalists. One parliamentary commander was a Richard Neville and another bore the name of Ralph Assheton, as we shall show, descended from the Vice-Constable of the 1480s: Colonel Assheton, of Middleton,…