Edward IV
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Someone posted a link to a teachers’ resource where Shakespeare’s Richard III is depicted as a storyboard that the students can interact with. Obviously, it’s Shakespeare so Richard isn’t going to be shown in a good light, but have a look at the main characters! Really, why is Clarence dressed as a sailor? And Edward…
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On the left is Gipping Chapel in Suffolk, attached to the Tyrrell property of Gipping Hall. It is a tradition within the Tyrrell family that the “Princes”, the sons of Edward IV who were technically children, lived there during 1483-4 “with the permission of the mother” . To the right is St. Nicholas of Myra,…
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This is the first of our extracts from this innovative Robert Fripp play, concerning Edward IV’s bigamous marriage to Elizabeth Wydeville: Two spirits, identical twin sisters Truth and Rumour, discuss the personality of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, while she embroiders onstage: Our next extract will feature the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham.…
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The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate and the Ladies of the Minories
Agnes Countess of Pembroke, Aldgate, Anne Montgomery, Anne Mowbray, Blanche of Navarre, Dame Elizabeth Savage, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Edward IV, Eleanor Scrope, Elizabeth brackenbury, Elizabeth de Clare, Elizabeth de la Pole, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Plague, Henry VIII, Isabel of Wodstock, Jane Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Margaret Stafford, Mary Tyrrell, Minories, Mowbray estates, nuns, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Sir James TyrrellAnne Montgomery nee Darcy. One of the much respected Ladies of the Minories from the window of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Shakespeare said ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’. Following on from that if we may be allowed to say that the Wars of the Roses were…
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Significant opportunities missed?
Archbishop Cranmer, attainder, Bath and Wells, bigamy, Bishops, books, David Baldwin, deprival, Durham, Edward IV, Edward V, Ely, Exeter, exile, Gairdner, Hugh Pavy, John Morton, John Shirwood, Lionel Woodville, Peter Courtenay, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Salisbury, St. David’s, Thomas Langton, Thomas Wolsey, Three Estates, treason, William DudleyRobert Stillington is likely to have been born in about 1420 and was consecrated as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465. As we know, in spring 1483, he confessed his knowledge of Edward IV’s bigamy. Based on Stillington’s evidence, the Three Estates voted to cancel the coronation of Edward V, inviting Richard…
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The excerpt below is from http://www.themcs.org/garter.htm, a list by the Medieval Combat Society of all the Knights of the Garter. George of Clarence comes in at number 185:- “185 (app c.1461) George (Plantagenet), Duke of Clarence. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Rebelled against his brother Edward IV, with his father-in-law, Richard, Earl of Warwick, the “King-maker.” Returned…
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Wingfield
Azincourt, Beccles, Charles Brandon, de la Pole family, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Elizabeth de la Pole, executions, Harfleur, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Henry V, Jane, John Duke of Suffolk, Marguerite de la Pole, Michael de la Pole, Nicolas of the Tower, Pakefield, Pavia, Richard II, Richard III, Robert Leman, Sir John Leman, Sir john Wingfield, Sir William de la Pole, Stoke Field, William Brandon, William Duke of Suffolk, WingfieldWingfield is a village in the middle of North Suffolk, just a few miles off the A140. There is a “castle”, but this is privately occupied and the owner is a little secretive. The village also features a small “college” and wedding venue, also known as Wingfield Barns, but its main features are St. Andrew’s…
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Recently I came across a portrait of Henry VIII that I had not seen before–certainly it is one of the lesser known ones. Ar first glance, the painting appears to be of a youth, pudgy-faced and beardless (with some similarities to portraits of Edward IV around the tip of the nose, eyes and mouth)–however, a…
