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Edmund of Langley

Lost in Southampton: Richard of Conisbrough

Dec 8, 2015

buildings, genealogy

Alice, Anne Curry, Anne Mortimer, Anthony Woodville, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Edward IV, Edward of Norwich, executions, Henry IV, Henry Scrope Baron Masham, Henry V, Isabel of Castile, John Holland, Maud Clifford, Plantagenets, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Richard III, Sir Thomas Grey, Southampton plot, St. Julien’s, T.B. Pugh, York

Richard of Conisbrough was Richard III’s grandfather on the paternal side. He is a shadowy figure, the last son of Edmund of Langley and his wife Isabella of Castile. Even his date of birth is uncertain, varying in different accounts by up to ten years. His father left him no inheritance, and there were rumours…
YORK OR LANCASTER: WHO WAS THE TRUE KING OF ENGLAND IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY?

Oct 8, 2015

genealogy, law

Chrimes, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Edward III, French crown, Henry III, Henry IV, Ian Mortimer, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Gaunt, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, Lionel of Antwerp, male primogeniture, Matilda, Parliamentary Roll, Richard II, Stephen

Part 1-– Necessitas non habet leger – The Lancastrian title 1399 Introduction I am not arguing that Henry IV usurped the crown in 1399. That judgment has already been made and hardly challenged since the fifteenth century[1]. Neither will I rehearse the reasons for king Richard II’s downfall in 1399; they are already well enough…
Kingfinder General

Mar 28, 2015

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, Constance of York, Edmund of Langley, Henry I, Henry VIII, Philippa Langley, Reading Abbey

(Reblogged from The Yorkist Age) Philippa Langley has announced that she is now involved in the search for King Henry I on the site of Reading Abbey. Reading Abbey was of course destroyed during the reign of that much-loved king, Henry VIII. A few ruins remain and the site is partially built over. It is…
Who’s the great-granddaddy then…?

Dec 3, 2014

genealogy

Edmund of Langley, Elizabeth of Lancaster, Henry IV, John Duke of Exeter, John of Gaunt, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Richard III, summary executions, Y-chromosome

Following on from the blog A Big Development below…. It is interesting that the latest scientifically gleaned results to come out from the tests made on the remains of King Richard III, have raised in a question mark over the line of legitimacy on his paternal side. Someone, somewhere, somewhen committed adultery, and the resultant…
The Fotheringhay Boar(s)

Nov 13, 2014

art, buildings, heraldry

arms, boar, Bury St. Edmunds, Cambridge, Clements Markham, Croyland, Edmund of Langley, Edmund of Rutland, Edward of Norwich, Ely, fetterlock and falcon, Fotheringhay, Leicester, reburial, Richard Duke of York

In all my travels to England, I had yet to visit Fotheringhay, the place where Richard III was born on October 2, 1452, and where his grand-uncle, father, mother and brother Edmund are buried. So, when planning our latest trip this past October, I made it a high priority that my husband and I should…
THE DOUBLE EXHUMATION OF EDMUND OF LANGLEY, FIRST DUKE OF YORK (from White Lily)

Jul 23, 2014

archaeology, Science

Anne Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Exhumation, Isabel of Castile

Much angst and verbiage has been vented and spilt lately on the subject of exhumation of bodies, particularly those of royal lineage. I don’t claim to be an archeologist, or an expert in the ethics of exhumation, but I stand in puzzled wonderment at the continued resistance to any proposed opening of the infamous urns…
Now available:

Apr 11, 2014

Uncategorized

books, Brian Wainwright, Edmund of Langley, Lancastrians, Richard II

Brian Wainwright’s biography of Edmund of Langley’s three children.