Edward IV
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Elizabeth of York and the cult of Edward of Lancaster….
“Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Middleham, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel Neville, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Westminster AbbeyEdward, Prince of Wales, the eighteen-year-old son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471. He became the subject of an exclusive posthumous cult. The chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey tells of the Prince’s death in battle and of his burial ‘in the mydste of the covent…
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If you support Richard III and believe history has “done him wrong”, for heaven’s sake do not read The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville and the Age of Chivalry by Christopher Wilkins. I made the mistake, and it soon struck me that the author had learned by rote every single myth about Richard, and…
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BERMONDSEY ABBEY AND ELIZABETH WYDEVILLE
“Lambert Simnel”, Arthur “Tudor”, Bermondsey Abbey, Catherine de Valois, Cheneygates, David Baldwin, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francois de Luxembourg, Henry V, Henry VII, James III, Lady Margaret Beaufort, London, marriage plans, Polydore Vergil, PreContract, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, sanctuary, Sauchieburn, Sheen, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Titulus RegiusUPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/01/bermondsey-abbey-and-elizabeth-wydevilles-retirement-there/ Elizabeth Wydeville, by an unknown artist, Royal Collection. If anyone today wandering around Bermondsey, South London, should find themselves in redeveloped Bermondsey Square they may be surprised to find that they are standing on the spot where once stood the quadrangle of the Abbey of Bermondsey, the…
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Miles Metcalf, or how the city of York defied Henry VII…
Archbishop of York, Bosworth, Coventry, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Exeter, Francis Bacon, Guy Fairfax, Henry VII, John Vavasour, maps, Miles Metcalf, Norwich, Richard Green, Richard III, riots, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, Stoke Field, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Middleton, York, York civic recordsIn a book called The Fifteenth Century – 3: Authority and Subversion, edited by Linda Clark, there is an interesting essay by James Lee entitled Urban Recorders and the Crown in Late Medieval England. I have taken from the article to illustrate the situation of the city of York with regard to the vital position…
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Llanthony Secunda is so-called because the Augustinian monks of the Vale of Eywas in the Black Mountains of Wales were driven from their original home, beautiful Llanthony Priory, and retreated to Gloucester, where they built this second priory. I have taken the following from a page at http://www.llanthonysecunda.org/: “Gloucester was an important city in medieval…
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A SWORD OF EDWARD IV IN IRELAND
“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, Bishop of Annaghtown, Calais, Dublin Castle, Earl of Desmond, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, House of York, Ireland, Ludford Bridge, rebels, Reginald’s Tower, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Stoke Field, Trim castle, Waterford Mint, Waterford MuseumThe House of York always had a strong connection with Ireland. Richard Duke of York and his family lived there from a while, sometimes at the imposing Trim Castle (beloved of movie makers from Excalibur to Braveheart) and sometimes at Dublin Castle where George of Clarence was born. Later, after the battle of Ludford Bridge,…
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Well, OK, I admit it, the picture right above is NOT Edmund. It’s just an image of a young knight, which is what Edmund was at the time of his death. The trouble is, what did Edmund of Rutland actually look like? Another giant like his elder brother Edward IV? Or…smaller and more delicate, like his…
