Edward IV

Even more evidence of Richard III’s innocence….?

Mar 6, 2017

Uncategorized

bigamy, coins, Edward IV, Edward V, evidence, Lady Eleanor Talbot, pre-contract, Richard III, Three Estates

I confess to not knowing that Edward V coins had ever been minted. There doesn’t really seem to have been time to have reached that point. However, as it’s clear they were coined and distributed, I have cause to consider the implication. We have the old, old story that Richard was a dastardly, murderous uncle…
The real site of the Battle of Barnet…?

Feb 21, 2017

battles, television reviews

archaeology, badges, Barnet, battlefields, BBC, Bosworth, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, fog, Richard of Warwick

The excellent BBC series Digging for Britain, Series 5, the episode concerning the east of Britain, presented by the equally excellent Dr Alice Roberts, contained a section on the Battle of Barnet, 1471. Why is it that an accepted site for a battle so often proves to be the wrong one? Bosworth is a prime…
Medieval kings needed their queens emotionally and physically….

Feb 17, 2017

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Anne of Bohemia, Edmund Dudley, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Henry IV, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel Neville, kings, Lady Margaret Beaufort, queens consort, Richard Empson, Richard II, Richard of, Visconti, Westminster Abbey

We are always being told that medieval aristocratic marriages (and indeed most medieval marriages) were arranged and did not feature love. The object was to increase property and lands, enhance a family’s reputation and produce as many heirs as was humanly possible. I pity those women who had a child a year throughout their married…
SIR WILLIAM STANLEY – TURNCOAT OR LOYALIST

Feb 15, 2017

anniversaries, battles

“Perkin”, Archbold, Battle of Bosworth, betrayal, Cheshire, crown, Edward IV, executions, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gairdner, hawthorn bush, Helen Maurer, Henry VII, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Chamberlain, loyalty, North Wales, Ramsay, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Clifford, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, Tower Hill, treason

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/26/sir-william-stanley-turncoat-or-loyalist/ It is well documented how, through the treasonable and treacherous actions of Sir William Stanley at Bosworth, Richard lost his crown and his life. He was hacked to death after Stanley, who brought 3000 men with him, intervened at the crucial point when Richard, with his household…
Not a book to be taken seriously….

Feb 12, 2017

battles

“Beauforts”, “Tudors”, Anne Neville, books, Brittany, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, exiles, France, H.E. Lehmann, Henry Percy, Henry VII, illegitimacy, Jasper “Tudor”, loyalty, Northern England, Northumbria, Richard III, Scotland, Warwick Castle

Would you like a few sniggers and outright guffaws? Yes? Then I have just the book for you—Lives of England’s Monarchs by H. E. Lehman. I was searching for something specific, and for some reason Google took me first to page 182… “…Edward [IV] was a large man possessed of great leadership ability and personal…
A Tale of Three Mistresses – Mangled by More

Feb 5, 2017

genealogy, law, sources

“Tudors”, Annette Carson, Armstrong, Arthur, bigamy, Blaybourne, Cecily Duchess of York, David Grummitt, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, George Buck, Henry VII, illegitimacy, John Earl, Kincaid, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, Mancini, Margaret FitzLewis, Margaret Lucy, Marie Barnfield, mediaeval canon law, mistresses, Ricardian, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Sir Lewis John, Sir Thomas Lumley, Sir William Lucy, Stephen Lark, Thomas More, usurpation, Waytes of Southampton, William Shore

(from http://www.annettecarson.co.uk) Our primary source of gossip about Edward IV’s mistresses is attributable to the pen of Thomas More (1478–1535), knight and latterly saint. While writing about Richard III, More found space for a lengthy diversion into the career of ‘Mistress Shore’, perhaps Edward’s most notorious extra-marital concubine, about whose present and past conditions the…
For Candlemas …

Feb 2, 2017

anniversaries, battles, Music Reviews

“Perkin”, Battle of Bosworth, Candlemas, Edward IV, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Lord Bonville, Lord Fitzwalter, Middleham, Middleham Jewel, Mortimer’s Cross, music, Richard of Warwick, Sir Andrew Trollope, Tewkesbury, The Legendary Ten Seconds, Towton, Wars of the Roses

… or the probable anniversary of the battle of Mortimer’s Cross: Sunnes and Roses, a new album by The Legendary Ten Seconds Released on R ichard The Third Records on 31st December 2016. Songs featuring Warwick the Kingmaker. Richard III, Henry VII, Lord Hastings, Edward Earl of March, Lord Fitzwalter, Sir Andrew Trollope,…
The miracle witnessed by Edward IV….

Jan 31, 2017

battles

Daventry, Edward IV, genealogy, miracles, Mortimers, Palm Sunday, Phillipa of Ulster, Richard II, St. Anne

An anonymous Yorkist supporter wrote an account describing Edward IV’s march through England in the spring of 1471, when he came to reclaim his throne from the Lancastrian Henry VI. On 7th April, Palm Sunday, Edward heard mass in the parish church at Daventry, and during the service a miracle occurred, witnessed by everyone present. At that…
The ghostly places of Gloucestershire….!

Jan 23, 2017

buildings

Edward IV, Gloucestershire, Margaret of Anjou, Owlpen Manor, Tewkesbury, Woodchester Mansion

This link is worth following, if only for the eerie photographs! Gloucestershire certainly has some ghosts…although how Owlpen Manor escaped inclusion I really do not know. http://owlpen.com/history/owlpen-ghosts It has the ghost of Margaret of Anjou. Mind you, that lady seems to have stayed everywhere in the county around the time of the Battle of Tewkesbury! One…
Was Edward IV gay and/or bisexual? Dr John Ashdown-Hill thinks maybe so….

Jan 20, 2017

archaeology, genealogy

Cecily Duchess of York, Colchester, DNA evidence, Dukes of Beaufort, Edward III, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lambert, Essex County Gazette, false paternity, Henry Duke of Somerset, John Ashdown-Hill, Richard III, sexuality, Thomas Earl of Lancaster, Titulus Regius, Y-chromosome

What follows was written entirely by Caroline Tilley, Senior Reporter of the Daily Gazette/Essex County Standard Secret marriages, scandalous affairs and one of the best-kept secrets in English history…. WHEN you have helped to unearth arguably the greatest historical find of the 21st century, some people might decide to put their feet up. Not Dr John…