Edmund Earl of Kent
-
The title of this article refers to Joan, Princess of Wales, mother of Richard II. She became known as the “Fair Maid of Kent”, a sobriquet acquired posthumously. But, was she the most beautiful woman in England? According to the standards of her time yes, she certainly was, although the contemporary likenesses we have…
-
Book Review: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
Abbesses, Agnes Strickland, Amesbury, Daughters of Chivalry, Edmund Earl of Kent, Edward I, Edward II, Eleanor Countess of Bar, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, Fontevrault, France, Gilbert de Clare, Helen Castor, Henri de Bar, Henry III, Humphrey de Bohun, Joan of Acre, John Count of Holland, John II of Brabant, Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Lincoln Castle, Margaret of Brabant, Mary of Woodstock, mediaeval women, Nicola de la Haie, nuns, Sarah Gristwood, sieges, Thomas of Brotherton
Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having enjoyed ‘Blood Sisters’ and ‘Game of Queens’ by Sarah Gristwood and Helen Castor’s ‘She-Wolves’, I was interested to read this book on the daughters of Edward I and it is very much in-line with their re-evaluations of the lives of aristocratic medieval and renaissance women and their too-often…
-
The Audley Case of 1431 Redux
Alianore Holland, Caversham Park, Church courts, Constance of York, Despencers, Edmund Earl of Kent, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, English Common Law, Gandhi, Gian Maria Visconti, Henry IV, Isabel le Despenser, James Lord Audley, Joan of Navarre, Kathryn Warner, Lucia Visconti, Margaret Duchess of Clarence, Milan, Mortimer plot, Owain Glyn Dwr, possible bigamy, restored lands, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, secret marriage, St Mary Overy, the Beauforts., WalesWe originally posted on this issue here. In summary, in 1431 or thereabouts, Alianore, Lady Audley, and her husband James were trying to demonstrate in the Church court that Alianore was legitimate and thus the heiress of her father, Edmund, Earl of Kent by Constance of York. Kent’s surviving sisters and the heirs of the…
-
So where exactly is “Orwell”?
Christopher Jones, Christopher Newport, Edmund Earl of Kent, Emma Lady Hamilton, Essex, Felixstowe, Harwich, Harwich Society, Horatio Nelson, Ipswich, Isabella de Valois, Jamestown, John Cromwell, Kathryn Warner, landing, maps, Orwell, pubs, River Orwell, River Stour, Roger Mortimer, Samuel Pepys, Shotley Peninsula, Suffolk, Three CupsHarwich Town station is the end of the line, a twenty-five minute ride from Manningtree and the north-eastern extremity of Essex. As you cross the main road from the station car park, turning left takes you past a series of old buildings with Harwich Society plaques amid a modern setting. Some of these commemorate people such…
-
https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/a-genealogical-mystery-deepens-originally-published-in-the-december-2013-bulletin/ You will hopefully remember, from the above, that the first child by Katherine de Roet usually attributed to John of Gaunt may well have been legally (and biologically) her son by Sir Hugh Swynford. The other two Beaufort sons were childless and their sister married Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, giving all of her…
The New Murrey and Blue blog 