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L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Oct 17, 2022

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Anne Neville, Barnet, Checkers Yard, Coldharbour, Crowland Chronicle, Dowgate Hill, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Great Fire of London, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry VIII, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Strype, Kingsford, l’Erber, London, Margaret of Salisbury, Nevilles, past maps, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Reformation, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard III Society, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, River Thames, sanctuary, Sir Francis Drake, St. Martin’s, Stow’s Survey, Thames Street, Tower of London, Visscher Panorama of London, Wars of the Roses, Warwick Lane, William Latimer

My latest A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com post London before the Great Fire and much as Richard Neville ‘The Kingmaker’ and his family would have known it… L’Erber stood slightly to the north west of Coldharbour which is the large house seen here in middle of the picture and facing the Thames. No depiction of L’Erber…
KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Apr 6, 2022

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AA Milne, Angevin bloodline, Anglicanism, annulment, Arthur of Brittany, Ascension Day, authorship, avarice, Barons, burials, Cardinal Pandulph, character, charles forker, clergymen, Crowland Chronicle, Defender of the Faith, Earls of Essex, Edward Hall, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Eucharist, excommunication, Fauconbridge brothers, Geoffrey Plantagenet, George Peel, graham Seel, Henry, Henry the Young King, Henry VIII, Historiography, House of York, Hubert de Bergh, Innocent III, John, john Bale, John Dover-Wilson, John Gillingham, John Harvey, John Matusiak, John Wycliffe, Kit Marlowe, Lackland, Louis VIII, Magna Carta, male primogeniture, Mary I, Maude Plantagenet, Mirabeau, morality plays, Phillip Augustus, plays, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, recusants, Reformation, Richard Green, Richard Hunne, Richard I, Robin Hood, royal burials, sir brian vickers, Sir James Holt, Six Articles, Softsword, Staffords, stephen langton, Stuarts, Tillyard, Walt Disney, Wilfred Warren, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, Worcester Cathedral

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came across him, When walking in the town, Gave him a supercilious stare, Or passed with noses in the air, And…
The Sisters Neville – Isobel, Duchess of Clarence and Queen Anne Neville, Daughters to the Kingmaker.

Mar 14, 2022

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alcohol, Amboise Cathedral, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, Annette Carson, Barnet, Baynard’s Castle, Beauchamp Pageant, Beaulieu Abbey, bigamy, Calais, Clarence Vault, Crowland Chronicle, dispensations, Edgecote, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Middleham, Edward V, executions, Farleigh Hungerford, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Henry VI, Hicks, Honfleur, illegitimacy, Isabel Neville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Lord Wenlock, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, King’s Lynn, l’Erber, Lincolnshire rebellion, Louis XI, loyalty, Luton Guild Book, Margaret of Anjou, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard Earl Rivers, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, Royal College of Arms, royal marriages, Sir John Woodville, Sir Robert Welles, Southampton, St. Martin le Grand, St. Stephen’s Westminster, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tony Pollard, Tower of London, Warwick Castle

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Warwick Castle birthplace of both the Neville sisters. Photo with thanks to Scotty Rae @Flkr. Richard Neville and Anne Beauchamp, Earl and Countess of Warwick had in their long marriage just two daughters. If there were any initial disappointment about that there was always Plan B, that illustrious marriages could…
CICELY PLANTAGENET – NOT SO FORTUNATE AS FAIR.

Feb 10, 2022

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“Lambert Simnel”, Anne Mowbray, Anne Neville, annulments, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Brittany, Cheneygates, Cicely Plantagenet, College Hall, Crowland Chronicle, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Gipping Hall, Greenwich Palace, Henry VII, Isle of Wight, James IV, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Ludlow Castle, Manuel Duke of Beja, Margaret Beauchamp, Mary Plantagenet, Maud Herbert, More, National Maritime Museum, Polydore Vergil, Quarr Abbey, Richard III, sanctuary, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Ralph Scrope, Society of Antiquaries, Thomas Kymbe, Thomas Rotherham, Viscount Welles, Westminster

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Stained glass portrait of Cicely. Formerly in Canterbury Cathedral now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. Cicely Plantagenet (b.1469 d.1507) daughter and niece to kings, and a prime example of a medieval noblewoman who endured and in this case survived the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses. Oh how that…
WILLIAM CATESBY, GOOD GUY, BAD GUY, TRAITOR? THE CLUES IN HIS WILL

Nov 8, 2021

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Ashby de la Zouch, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Crowland Chronicle, Daniel Williams, Elizabeth Lady Latimer, Elizabeth St. John, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Lord Strange, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, illegitimacy, JA Roskell, King’s Council, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Logge Register, Lord Scrope of Bolton, Margaret Zouche, Peter Hancock, pre-contract, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Robert Catesby, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Thomas Cardinal Bourchier, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas More, Tower of London, treason, William Catesby, William Colyngbourne, William Lord Hastings, wills, Wydevilles

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI sparkypus.com Brass of William Catesby, Ashby St Ledgers Church. Commissioned by William’s son in 1507. Date of death 20th August is incorrect, predating Bosworth, perhaps in an attempt to cover up his inglorious end. Note the damage across the neck. Photo Aidan McRae Thomas Flkir As no doubt can be seen…
No longer passing the Buc(k)?

Oct 1, 2021

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accuracy, Arthur Kincaid, Battle of Bosworth, British Library, CAJ Armstrong, Constable of England, Crowland Chronicle, Domenico Mancini, Earl Marshal, Elizabeth of York, fire, Flodden, George Buck, Joanna, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Manuel Duke of Beja, new edition, patron, Portuguese archives, pre-contract, Richard III, Shakespeare, Sir George Buc, Sir Robert Cotton, Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel, Thomas More

Now for some very interesting news: Arthur Kincaid’s The History of King Richard the Third is set for a new edition, based on forty years of further research. Kincaid has managed to distinguish the forensic research of Sir George Buc (1560-1622), whose great-grandfather fought at Bosworth and whose grandfather was at Flodden, from that of…
The Mysterious Affair at Stony Stratford

Aug 30, 2021

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Agatha Christie, ambush, Angelo Cato, Annette Carson, Crowland Chronicle, Crowland Continuator, Domenico Mancini, Dr. John Argentine, Edward IV, Edward V, fishing, Grafton Regis, Great North Road, Henry of Buckingham, James Gairdner, John Speed, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, maps, Marie Barnfield, market days, Mid-Anglia Group, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Richard III, Richard III Society, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir Richard Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Stony Stratford, The Maligned King, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Watling Street, Weedon Bec, will of Edward IV, William Lord Hastings, Wydevilles

This excellent blog post by Annette Carson, based on a presentation given to the Society’s Mid-Anglia Group, summarises the events of 29th-30th April 1483, as Edward V and Anthony Woodville (Earl Rivers), together with Sir Richard Grey and others, met the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham as the Great North Road and Watling Street converged.…
A new Mancini – by Annette Carson

Apr 9, 2021

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Angelo Cato, Annette Carson, Bernard Andre, bias, Burgundy, CAJ Armstrong, Charles Ross, Charles VIII, Crowland Chronicle, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, Latin, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, Luxembourg, Phillippe de Commynes, Polydore Vergil, Richard III, The Maligned King, Thomas More, translation

Towards the end of 1482 an Austin friar by the name of Domenico Mancini was sent to London by a senior minister of King Louis XI of France This was pursuant to France’s act of hostility in breaching her long-standing treaty with England, and Mancini was clearly on a fact-finding mission, as shown by the…
GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT

Feb 18, 2021

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Ankarette Twynho, attainder, Barnet, bigamy, childbirth, Clarence Vault, Crowland Chronicle, dental evidence, Despenser tomb, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domenico Mancini, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Guild of the Holy Cross Stratford-on-Avon, Hicks, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Stacey, Joyce Filyer, Luton Guild Book, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Holinshed, Roger Bolingbroke, Rous Roll, Samuel Hawling, Shakespeare, Tewkesbury Abbey, Thomas Burdet, Thomas More, Thomas Penn, Thomas Southwell, Tower of London, wounds, Wydevilles

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkpus.com GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT This is thought to be a portrait of Isobel from the Luton Guild Book. See The Dragonhound’s interesting post here After the death of Isobel Duchess of Clarence on the 22 December 1476 aged 25, her coffin lay in…
The Precontract that Gave Us King Richard III

Oct 21, 2020

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“Princes”, bastardy, bigamy, canon law, Crowland Chronicle, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Richard III, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, Whitefriars

One of the main reasons we now have an amazing King in the list of British monarchs is without doubt the precontract between Lady Eleanor Talbot and King Edward IV. The turning point in the election of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, as king of England was the discovery of a precontract between the former king…