Edward V
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BOOK REVIEW
“Perkin”, “Princes”, ambition, Archbishop Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, attainder, Battle of Bosworth, Cardinal, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, Francis Bacon, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, illegitimacy, inheritance, James IV, John Morton, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Master of the Rolls, Milanese Ambassador, Morton’s Fork, Polydore Vergil, rebellion, Richard III, Robert Cecil, Stuart Bradley, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Titulus Regius, Towton, William Cecil, William Lord Hastings, WydevillesStuart Bradley – JOHN MORTON: adversary of Richard III, power behind the Tudors (Amberley 2019) John Morton served the English crown for a almost forty years during one of the most turbulent periods in English history. He wielded considerable influence at the courts of three kings. First, in the Lancastrian household of Henry VI:…
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History Book Part One
Arthurian legend, Battle Abbey, Battle of Hastings, Beaufort Companye, Coldridge, Devon, Edinburgh, Edward V, Harringtons, Richard III, Scotland, Scottish campaign 1482, Senlac Hill, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir William Stanley, Stanleys, The Legendary Ten Seconds, treachery, William I, windowsThe Legendary Ten Seconds have a new album out. The tracks go back chronologically to Arthurian times, before including two about the Battle of Hastings – or of Battle to be precise. The last six cover Richard III’s adult life and reign, from the seemingly effortless taking of Edinburgh to the Harrington dispute and the…
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13 of the biggest mysteries of the British monarchy….
Albert Victor Duke of Clarence, Amy Robsart, Edward Duke of Kent, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland, George V, illegitimacy, Jack the Ripper, John Brown, Joseph Sellis, Lord Dawson, Prince Albert, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess Louise, Reader’s Digest, Richard III, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, royal mysteries, Three Estates, Tower of London, Victoria, Whitechapel murdersOh, dear. The fate of Edward V (if he ever was a king) tops the Reader’s Digest list of 13 of the ‘Biggest Mysteries Surrounding the British Royal Family’. Hm. As the following quoted paragraph is a sample of the article’s accuracy, I won’t be bothering to read the other twelve. “….In April 1483, King…
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The Trial That Should Have Happened in 1483
archbishops, Beaumaris Castle, bigamy, canon law, Charles Donohue, Commines, consistory court, Crowland Chronicle, documents, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Eleanor Cobham, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, illegitimacy, inheritance, John Fortescue, King’s Bench, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leeds Castle, Margery Paston, Papal Curia, Parliament, Pope, PreContract, procedure, Protectorate, R.H. Helmholz, Richard Calle, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Stillington, secular law, Sir William Shareshull, sorcery, St Stephens Chapel, Statute of Merton, Statute of Praeminure, The Court of Arches, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, treason, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, William Durantis, witnessesOriginally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Putting aside the mystery of what ultimately happened to Edward IV’s two sons, one enduring difficulty for a student of history is whether Richard III used the proper legal procedure in having them declared illegitimate because of their father’s precontracted marriage to Eleanor Talbot. The most (and only) significant defect…
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I have a number of beefs about the following extract from this article, which concerns eight unsolved royal mysteries. No, not about the present family, as shown in the above illustration (which is from the article). In the list, the third one is all that is of interest to Ricardians:- “….3. The mysterious disappearance…
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From 8 June – 22 September 2019, Richard’s NPG portrait is on its travels to the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester. If you wander around the NPG site, you’ll find more about their portraits of Richard. Twenty-six in all. But you’ll also find the following: “Richard III was the last Yorkist king of England.…
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Here at Murrey and Blue, we are not in the habit of reviewing repeats, not even when we have commented on them before. This time, it is the very fact and timing of the repeat of Channel Four’s “Who killed the Princes in the Tower?”, with the ubiquitous Dan Jones, that is at issue, together…
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via Richard III: Bound by Loyalty?
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If you want the bare bones of Edward’s reign(s), supposedly born today but on an impossible date, here they are, although there is no reference to his valid marriage in 1461. To me, Edward IV, for all the good he did as king, was rather a prat. Sorry, but there’s no other word for…
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An article in British History Online , as illustrated by this John Zephaniah Bell painting says: “Here [Westminster Abbey/Sanctuary/Cheyneygates] the unhappy queen [Elizabeth Woodville] was induced by the Duke of Buckingham and the Archbishop of York to surrender her little son, Edward V., to his uncle Richard, who carried him to the Tower, where the two…
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