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Edward IV

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…
Richard, the man in blue and ermine….

Jan 18, 2017

Uncategorized

Anthony Woodville, art, books, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Woodville, George Duke of Clarence, Lambeth Palace, printing, Richard III

The above illustration is of Edward IV receiving a book from Anthony Woodville. With the king are his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, and his heir, the future Edward V. Looking at it, I found myself wondering if the man in blue and ermine, third from left, might be Richard III. As Duke of Gloucester, of course.…
Might Edward IV have suffered from Type 2 diabetes…?

Jan 17, 2017

Science

counties, diabetes, Edward IV, health, Henry VIII

http://ricardianregister.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/did-king-edward-iv-have-type-2-diabetes.html No doubt many of you have read this article before (see link above), but I had not. It’s very interesting to ponder whether Edward IV may have suffered from Type 2 Diabetes. I have to say that his portrait seems a prime example of the “fair, fat and forty” stereotype (of which I too…
Two suns over Gloucester….

Jan 15, 2017

anniversaries, battles, heraldry

Edward IV, Gloucester, Mortimer’s Cross, parhelion

The above is not a picture of the event I saw, but resembles it. At around 2.30 in the afternoon of Sunday, 11th December 2016, driving home after being out with my family for lunch at the Hatherley Manor Hotel near Gloucester, my sister-in-law and I saw a two-sun parhelion. It is the first time I…
Perhaps they should call it …

Jan 13, 2017

Alternative History, genealogy, television reviews

BBC2, Cambridge University, Cecily Duchess of York, Charles the Bold, Edward IV, Edward V, historical ignorance, Jeremy Paxman, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of Burgundy, Richard III, television programmes, University Challenge

… “Primary School Challenge”? According to one of the Cambridge teams on January 9th, Edward IV and Edward V had the same mother. According to Jeremy Paxman, Margaret “Beaufort” was married to the Duke of Burgundy. To be fair, she did marry four times, even though the first was annulled. Oh dear. Weshall have to…