David Johnson
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JOHN ROUS – Author of The Rous Roll, Warwickshire Antiquarian, Chantry Chaplain and Turncoat Extraordinaire?
“Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, antiquarians, articles, attainders, Battle of Bosworth, British Library, Charles Ross, David Johnson, dedications, Earls of Warwick, Edward IV, elephants, enclosures, Fotheringhay, Guy’s Cliff, Henry VI, Historia Regum Angliae, John Rous, Latin, Nicholas Orme, October birthdays, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, sanctuary, Titulus Regius, vicar of Bray, Warwick, Yorkist RollReblogged fromA Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com John Rous ‘drawne by himselfe’. From the Latin ‘Lancastrian’ version of the rolls. College of Arms. John Rous or Rows as he called himself (b.c1420 d. 14 January 1492) was the son of Geoffrey Rous of Warwick, who was a younger son of Thomas Rous of Brinklow, and Margaret,…
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WAS HENRY VII A RELUCTANT BRIDEGROOM?
Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Brittany, Cheneygates, Christmas Day, Coldharbour, Coldridge, consanguinity, Coronation, David Johnson, dispensations, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, Jean Molinet, Joanna, John Evans, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Manuel Duke of Beja, Maud Herbert, Minories, Papal Curia, Parliament, Polydore Vergil, Portuguese marriage plans, promise to marry, re-legitimisation, Rennes Cathedral, Ricardian, Richard III, Robert Stillington, royal marriages, Sir Francis Bacon, Speakers of the Commons, Stoke Field, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lovell, Titulus Regius 1486REBLOGGED FROM A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Their effigies in Westminster Abbey. Artist Pietro Torrigiano. Photo westminster-abbey.org I was recently reading an excellent article in the Ricardian discussing Henry Tudor’s enthusiasm, or lack of it, for his marriage to Elizabeth of York by David Johnson entitled Ardent Suitor or Reluctant…
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Researching my new novel, Distant Echoes, I found out about a court case that Richard was involved with concerning a woman called Katherine Bassingbourne. She brought a complaint before Richard’s Council because she couldn’t afford a lawyer and Richard seems to have taken her side, despite it being of no benefit to him to do…
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http://revealingrichardiii.com/index.html Now we know what those behind the Looking for Richard project are up to next*, from Lady Eleanor and the “Princes” to the year 1483 itself. There is certain to be some DNA involved. * apart from Henry I and Reading Abbey, of course
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