Earls of Essex

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Apr 6, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, The play’s the thing

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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…
Maldon

Nov 20, 2019

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, religion

All Saints Maldon, Anglo-Saxons, Battle of Maldon, beards, Beeleigh Abbey, books, Byrthnoth, Charles I, Coes, Danegeld, Earls of Essex, Edward IV, English Civil War, Essex, Ethelred II, George Washington, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Isabel of York, JD Wetherspoon, Little Easton, Maeldune Centre, Maldon, Maldon Grammar School, Moot Hall, reburials, Rose and Crown Maldon, royal portraits, St. Peter’s Maldon, statues, taxes, Thomas Plume, Thomas Plume’s Library, Vikings

Following an unsuccesful Viking raid in 924, the battle of Maldon took place in August 991 and the result was a victory for the Norse invaders. Byrthnoth, the Essex earldorman who led the Saxons that day, was among those killed and Ethelred II instituted payment of the “Danegeld” to pacify the Vikings. This Byrthnoth statue…
Did the producers recognise him?

Feb 22, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, television reviews

Carry On Henry, Earls of Essex, films, Henry VIII, humour, Kenneth Williams, Lord Privy Seal, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell

Here is a picture you may well have seen. It shows, from Carry On Henry, Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal to Henry VIII and briefly Earl of Essex. In fact, Cromwell’s sister married one Thomas (or Morgan) Williams, although their descendants took the Cromwell surname.
In suo jure (or titles that did pass through the female line)

Apr 29, 2017

genealogy, law

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Mowbray, Barons Stafford, Blanche of Lancaster, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls of Essex, Earls of Warwick, Edmund Crouchback, Edward of Warwick, feminism, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Henry IV, Henry of Grosmont, in suo jure, John Baron Devereux, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John of Gaunt, Lady Carina Howard, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, Margaret Duchess of Norfolk, Mary Stafford, Michael Earl of Loudoun, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Sir David Frost, Thomas of woodstock, titles, Walter Devereux Earl of Essex, William Howard Viscount Stafford

In this post, we reminded our readers that a lineal Lancastrian is a person descended from Blanche, the younger daughter of Henry of Grosmont, not from her husband, John of Gaunt, by another wife. Titles usually fit into these categories: i) To begin with, many older titles were created before Letters Patent in such a way that they…
That lawyer in Utah …

Jul 5, 2016

genealogy, law, Science

DNA evidence, Earls of Essex, George II, George III, George IV, Hanover, James Ord, Mrs. Fitzherbert, royal marriages, USA, Y-chromosome

As you can see from the article, the author (Tom Leonard) knows the answer to be in the negative because the Royal Marriages Act 1772 precludes the descendants of George II from marrying without the sovereign’s consent – that sovereign being George III at the time. James Ord’s putative ancestor is another James Ord, born…
The Shakespearean editor who was descended from Richard III’s sister …

Apr 6, 2016

genealogy

Anne of Exeter, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, Colchester, Earls of Essex, Edward IV, Rayne, Richard III, Shakespeare, Suffolk

… was Sir Edward Capell, son of the vicar of Stanton in Suffolk. He was, as you can see , a cousin of the Earls of Essex through Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, a descendant of Anne Duchess of Exeter.
We like to answer our readers’ queries …

Feb 28, 2015

genealogy

“Beauforts”, “Tudors”, Anne Mortimer, Anne Neville, Barons Bergavenny, Constance of York, de la Pole, DNA evidence, Earl of Kent, Earls of Essex, Edward III, Isobel of York, Portugal, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard III, Staffords

On Thursday, someone enquired: “Who had a better claim to the throne than Henry VII”? The short answer (excluding the right by conquest): almost anyone. Conventionally, his mother was descended from Edward III through the Beaufort line, but they were only legitimised “excepta dignitate regali”. However, the balance of evidence suggests that his parents were…
Would you believe it?

Dec 5, 2014

genealogy, humour

Arthur Bourchier, Earls of Essex, Henry VIII, Sid James

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2861643/CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-Damian-Lewis-No-best-Henry-VIII-Sid-James.html Yes, Sid James’ was probably the best portrayal of Henry VIII on screen, but the first (Arthur BOURCHIER, 1911) actually shared the surname of some of that King’s (apparent) relatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Bourchier
Arthur Capell, Baron Hadham – the accidental traitor

Jun 17, 2014

battles, genealogy, religion

Anne of Exeter, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, baronies, Capells, castles, Catherine Manners, Charles I, Charles II, Civil War, Colchester, Earls of Essex, Elizabeth Morrison, English Civil War, escape, executions, Hadham, Hertfordshire, MPs, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Queens’ College Cambridge, Restoration, Royalists, Rye House Plot, sieges, Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, slightings, Stoke-by-Nayland, Tower of London, Welsh Marches

Introduction The middle of the seventeenth century was a turbulent time and it would be very surprising were not some remnants of the House of York involved. Indeed, Ashby de la Zouch Castle, property of Ferdinando, Earl of Huntingdon, was slighted during this time as a result of his participation. Another Royalist partisan was Arthur…