Constanza of Castile

TWO BRIDES FOR TWO BROTHERS

Jul 29, 2016

genealogy

Anne Neville, Constanza of Castile, denialists, Edmund of Langley, Eleanor of Provence, George Duke of Clarence, Henry III, Hicks, Howard Keel, incest, Isabel of Castile, Isobel Neville, John of Gaunt, Louis IX, Richard III, Richard of Cornwall, Sanchia of Provence

‘Did Richard III Marry His Sister?’ Lurid headlines blared off a rag on sale during Richard’s re-interment week in March 2015. A certain anti-Richard professor was, once again, insisting that because Isabel Neville was sister to Anne Neville and married to Richard’s brother George, that made Richard Isabel’s ‘brother’ and therefore his union…
Richard and “Incest”

Apr 28, 2016

law

Affinity, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, canon law, Cecily Neville the Younger, Constanza of Castile, denialists, Edmund of Langley, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Warwick, Hicks, incest, Isabel of Castile, John of Gaunt, Marie Barnfield, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, sibling double marriages

In BBC History, Richard III Special Edition, Professor Hicks returns to his theory that Richard III’s marriage to Anne Neville was incestuous because of the prior marriage of his brother, George Clarence, to Isabel Neville. I have to confess to surprise that a historian of Professor Hicks’ fame and academic stature is still chasing this…
Constanza of Castile

Feb 12, 2016

genealogy

Catherine of Aragon, Constanza of Castile, Edmund of Langley, fair hair, height, Isabel of Castile, Kathryn Warner, Lancastrians, Nevilles, Pedro I, Spain

In this excellent blog post Kathryn Warner refreshes our understanding of Constanza, Duchess of Lancaster, with her usual eye for false myth. However, one particularly interesting fact arising from the post (in that it relates to the House of York) is that Pedro I, King of Castile, (Constanza’s father) was six feet tall with light blond…

Constanza of Castile

TWO BRIDES FOR TWO BROTHERS

Richard and “Incest”

Constanza of Castile