Edgecote

I hope this book is more accurate than the blurb

Jul 24, 2023

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, Science, The play’s the thing

“Tudors”, Bamburgh Castle, children, Edgecote, First Battle of St. Albans, Fotheringhay, Henry VII, Leicester Greyfriars, Micklegate Bar, mtDNA evidence, Pen and Sword, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, satire, Shakespeare, skeletons, teeth, Tewkesbury, The Children of Richard III, Tower of London, Towton, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses, York

Perhaps this is just a matter of ambiguity rather than inaccuracy and that the book itself is clearer, however the jacket information really isn’t promising. Bamburg (sic), being by the east coast, had nothing to do with Tudors, real or imagined, until after Henry VII‘s accession, so it definitely wasn’t a “stronghold” of theirs during…
The complete, utterly biased dissing of the House of York….

Apr 28, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, law, religion, television reviews, The play’s the thing

Anne Neville, armour, Barnet, bastardy, bigamy, boar, Brittany, Burgundy, Cecily Neville, cleanliness, destiny, Edgecote, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edmund of Rutland, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward V, executions, exile, facial hair, family tree, First Battle of St. Albans, fog, G.L.Harriss, gambling, George Duke of Clarence, Hastings, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Ireland, Jasper “Tudor”, John Ashdown-Hill, John Duke of Somerset, John of Gaunt, John Welles, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Lionel of Antwerp, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, Margaret of Anjou, Mortimer’s Croft, obscenity, Old St. Paul’s, philip glenister, pre-contract, Privy Council, propaganda, re-legitimisation, Readeption, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Arundel, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, Scotland, Sky History, Southampton, Titulus Regius, Wakefield, Welsh people, William Herbert, William Shakespeare, Wydevilles, Yorkist claim, Yorkists

When I recorded the first episode of the Sky series Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, I watched it on 23rd November, which is the anniversary of the day in 1450 when Richard 3rd Duke of York returned to London [and Parliament] with his sword unsheathed to claim his right. The docudrama series kicks…
The Sisters Neville – Isobel, Duchess of Clarence and Queen Anne Neville, Daughters to the Kingmaker.

Mar 14, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, law, religion, sources

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…
THE MARRIAGES OF THE SIBLINGS OF ELIZABETH WOODVILLE

Aug 13, 2021

battles, genealogy

“Lambert Simnel”, Anne Wydeville, Arundel Castle, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Blackheath, Canterbury Cathedral, Edgecote, Elizabeth Baroness Scales, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, George Grey Earl of Kent, Henry of Buckingham, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Hicks, Hillingdon Church, Jacquetta Wydeville, Jane Wydeville, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Lincoln, John Lord Strange, John Wydeville, Katherine Duchess of norfolk, Katherine Plantagenet, Katherine Wydeville, Knights of the Bath, Margaret Fitzalan, Margaret Wydeville, marriages, Martha Wydeville, Mary Lewis, Mary Wydeville, ODNB, Richard of Warwick, Sir Anthony Grey, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir John Bromley, Sir Richard Wingfield, Stoke Field, The Cornish Rebellion, Thomas Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, Thomas Lord Stanley, Tintern Abbey, Turner, William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, William of Worcester, William Viscount Bourchier, windows, Wydevilles

Elizabeth Woodville Royal Window Canterbury Cathedral Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Very soon after the clandestine marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville had taken place in 1464 it became abundantly clear to the old nobility that the siblings of the new Queen would henceforth be having their pick of the most sought after heirs and heiresses of…
The ruby that isn’t a ruby was worn at a battle that didn’t happen….?

Jul 25, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles

Azincourt, Battle of Bosworth, Black Prince’s Ruby, Edgecote, Edincott, Edward IV, Edward of Woodstock, Elizabeth II, Henri IV, Henry IV, Henry V, Imperial State Crown, Richard III

Aha, so it isn’t a ruby, see this article. Well, we knew that! But for all its associations with the Black Prince, Henry V and Richard III (to say nothing of later monarchs) it seems our present queen “….often likes to think of it being worn by Henry IV during the battle of…
It WASN’T the Battle of Edgecote Moor, it was the Battle of Edgcote….

Jul 24, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles

Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Northampton, Edgecote, errors, executions, Graham Turner, Hedgeley Moor, Mike Ingram, Northamptonshire Battlefields Society, Richard Woodville, Royal Mail, Sir John Woodville, stamps

On Monday, 24th July 1469, was fought the Battle of Edgecote Moor, and 549 years later, on 26th July 2018, I was being informative about it here . Except I had my facts wrong. It wasn’t Edgecote Moor, it was just plain Edgcote or sometimes Edgecote, but just that one word! Apparently I was…
Has one of the Kingmaker’s pirate ships been found in Newport….?

Jul 26, 2019

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, Science, television reviews, travel

BBC2, dendrochronology, Edgecote, Mary Rose, mediaeval vessels, Newport Ship, oak, piracy, Richard of Warwick, River Usk, Thomas Throckmorton, Timewatch, William Herbert Earl of Pembroke

Last night I watched (on PBS America) a BBC2 Timewatch episode entitled The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship. It concerned the discovery, in June 2002, of a foundered/scuttled medieval vessel of some size, buried in the oozing mud of the Severn Sea – well, the oozing mud of the River Usk, at Newport, to be…
A WEEKEND IN A MEDIEVAL MANOR IN WALES

Aug 11, 2018

battles, buildings, travel

Anglo-Saxons, Bishops of Llandaff, Calais, Chepstow, churches, Edgecote, Lancastrians, Mathern, Moynes Court, Normans, Sir David ap Phillip, St. Pierre, St. Tewdric, Thomas Lewis, Wales, Yorkists

If you are looking for a pleasant medieval weekend away you could do worse than staying at the manor house of St Pierre, near Chepstow in Wales. The deerpark may be a golf course now but there are still acres to walk, an ancient church, and a handsome twin-towered gatehouse surrounded by a courtyard. The…
Black Vaughan of Hergest Court in Herefordshire….

Jul 25, 2017

battles, buildings

Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgecote, Edward V, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Herefordshire, Hergest Court, Kington, Pontefract Castle, Richard III, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Thomas Vaughan, Wales, Woodvilles

Thomas Vaughan ap Rosser was born in 1400, and nicknamed ‘Black’ Vaughan because of his black hair; or perhaps because of his black nature. No one knows which. His main residence was Hergest Court, near Kington in Herefordshire, and his wife was Ellen Gethin of Llanbister, Radnorshire. She was, from all accounts, a formidable…
Another ‘War of the Roses’ Battlefield found!

Nov 7, 2015

archaeology, battles

Edgecote, Edward IV, HS2, Richard of Warwick, Rose

The site of the Battle of Edgecote, fought between King Edward IV and Warwick the Kingmaker is located, causing problems for the HS2 rail link, Read about it here. versus Edward IV image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKing_Edward_IV_from_NPG_(2).jpg Warwick the Kingmaker image credit (link to page): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville#/media/File:Warwick1.jpg