Edward IV

On twentieth century comedy

Jan 9, 2019

humour, law

alcoholism, Barry Mainwaring, bigamy, Captain Mainwaring, Dads’ Army, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fiona Gray, George Duke of Clarence, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract

Here we commented on a literary attempted bigamist, whose first name just happened to be Edward. Anyone who has visited the Dads’ Army Museum in Thetford may have noticed some parallels. Captain George Mainwaring, although ten inches shorter than Edward IV, has a drunken brother and feelings for a widow named Gray/ Grey (Fiona, played…
KEY TO THE CASTLE: LUMLEY CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS

Jan 7, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Bamburgh Castle, Edward IV, Epiphany Rising, executions, George Lumley, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VII, hotels, John Earl of Somerset, John Lumley, Lumley Castle, Margaret “Tudor”, Pilgrimage of Grace, Richard III, Scottish campaign 1482, siege of Berwick, sieges, Sir Ralph Lumley, Thomas Lumley, Wars of the Roses

Recently it hit the news that the key to Lumley Castle’s ancient banqueting hall had been returned after it was stolen during an event 40 years ago. Lumley Castle is currently a hotel (so another one to add to the list of interesting castles you can stay in!) and the family who lived there had…
Dear Cairo Dweller,

Dec 27, 2018

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science, sources

“Princes”, chapels, denialists, Edward IV, Garden Tower, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, mysteries, royal burials, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle

Science has proved that Edward IV’s more prominent sons are not in his tomb, which was opened a few times but not when anyone could have have been placed there. Science will shortly prove that they are not in that Westminster Abbey urn, as you have maintained for so long. So where are you going…
Stained-glass magnificence, courtesy of five Kings of England….

Dec 6, 2018

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, heraldry

All Souls’ College Oxford, Battle of Bosworth, Calais, devices, dragon, Edward IV, Eton, hawthorn bush, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, King’s College Chapel Cambridge, Morpeth Castle, Owen Lord Ogle, portcullis, Richard III, Rose, St. Andrew’s Bothal, stained glass, Thomas Wolsey

This article provides an interesting interpretation of magnificent windows that are to be found in various churches, including King’s College, Cambridge. Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII had a royal hand in these masterpieces. Henry VII, of course, went overboard with all his heraldic symbols, and at King’s College…
The Kingmaker’s almshouses….

Nov 22, 2018

anniversaries, battles, buildings

almshouses, burford, Edward IV, Henry Bishop, Mortimer’s Cross, Richard of Warwick, Second Battle of St. Albans

When looking into the history of Burford in Oxfordshire, I came upon this site. One wonders if the great Richard Neville, born 22nd November 1428, ever actually saw the result of his charity. “The most conspicuous charitable act in late medieval Burford was the foundation in 1455–6 of the Great Almshouse (or Warwick Almshouses) near the church,…
So who did Anne Mowbray take after….?

Nov 18, 2018

anniversaries, art, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, Anne of Gloucester, bigamy, Canterbury Cathedral, Cecily Neville, death masks, Doyle’s Official Baronage, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Elizabeth Berkeley, Elizabeth Wydeville, facial resemblance, hair colour, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry V, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard II, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, St. Mary’s Hall Coventry, St. Mary’s Warwick, Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle, William Bourchier Count of Eu, William Lord Berkeley

What is one of the first things we say on seeing a new baby? Something along the lines of how much the new arrival takes after his/her father/mother/uncle/aunt/grandfather etc. etc. For those of us with a great interest in history, it is almost irresistible to compare various historical figures in the same way. For instance,…
Another helping of SHW

Nov 17, 2018

anniversaries, battles, humour, law

bigamy, cartoons, Caxton, Earl of Desmond, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Tewkesbury
Even Stanley suffered because of Henry VII’s avarice….

Oct 30, 2018

buildings

Anne Neville, avarice, british History Online, Chesilhurst, Dartford Manor, Dartford Priory, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Isabel Neville, John Brooke Lord Cobham, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Thomas Lord Stanley

This concerns Dartford Manor (and then priory) in Kent (above), of which you can read more at https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/02/DDAG/08/20.htm and http://www.akentishceremony.com/kcc-register-offices/the-manor-gatehouse/ My interest lies in the history of the manor, i.e. pre-Henry VIII. The following, which is taken from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp2-22, seems at first not to concern Dartford Manor, but its pattern of ownership is the same,…
The strict etiquette of Elizabeth Woodville’s churching….

Oct 23, 2018

anniversaries, Book Reviews, law, religion, sources, travel

Bohemia, Charles the Bold, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, Hakluyt Society, hospitality. etiquette, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Leo of Rozmital, Margaret of Burgundy, Privy Council, Richard III, Richard of Warwick

The Travels of Leo of Rozmital in the 15th century are fascinating, and if you register (free) for a virtual library card here you can read about them for 14 days. You can access up to five books all told. Between 1465 and 1467 Leo (a Bohemian nobleman and celebrated jouster who died this day in…
Seeking the Real Duke of Clarence

Oct 21, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, sources

alcoholism, Ankarette Twynho, Anne Neville, Barnet, Bromham church, Buckingham rebellion, charisma, disloyalty, Edward IV, executions, fiction, George Duke of Clarence, Hicks, insanity, Isabel Neville, John Thursby. Sir Roger Tocotes, propaganda, puerperal fever, Richard III, stereotypes, Tewkesbury, Towton, tuberculosis, Warwick

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Richard III’s brother, George of Clarence. You know the one–typical ‘middle child’, ‘false fleeting Clarence’, the one drowned in Malmsey who was also a drunk and quite possibly insane, hanging, as he did, old ladies on the vaguest of suspicions. And I began considering–is George, like Richard, maligned,…