Eleanor Neville

The Rise of the Stanley family.

Dec 5, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law

Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Shrewsbury, Blore Heath, Cheshire, Constable of England, Earl of Arundel, Eleanor Neville, extortion, France, heiresses, Henry IV, Henry of Buckingham, Ireland, Isobel Lathom, justiciar of Ireland, King of Mann, Knights of the Garter, Lancashire, Lathom House, Lord Audley, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Margaret of Anjou, Master Forester, murder, pardons, Prior of Burscough, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland, Roger Mortimer 4th Earl of March, Roxburgh Castle, Scotland, Sheriff of Anglesea, Sir John Stanley, Sir William Stanley, Stanleys, Tewkesbury, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Mowbray Earl of Norfolk, Wirral

In the late 14th Century, the Stanleys were a gentry family, their power base lying chiefly in Cheshire, notably in the Wirral. Their ancestry might fairly be described as ‘provincial’. There were certainly no kings in their quarterings. This is not to say they were unimportant, but their influence was of a local rather than…
THE SIX SISTERS OF WARWICK THE KINGMAKER

Apr 14, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

Alice Montacute, Alice Neville, Anne Fitzhugh, Arundel Castle, Ashby St Ledgers, Barnet, Cecily Neville the Younger, Cicely Bonville, Colne Priory, Despencers, Earl of Desmond, Eleanor Neville, Elizabeth Baynham, executions, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Lord Strange, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry Fitzhugh, Henry VII, impaling, Joan Neville, John Earl of Oxford, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Katherine Neville, Kirby Muxloe, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lady Margaret Neville, Margaret Wydeville, ODNB, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, St. george’s Chapel, St. James Garlickhythe, Tanfield Castle, Tewkesbury Abbey, The Coronation of Richard III: the Extant Documents, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lord Stanley, tomb effigies, Wakefield, William Bonville Lord Harrington, William Fitzalan, William Lord Hastings

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @ sparkypus.com Joan Neville and her husband William Fitzalan Earl of Arundel lie together to this day in their beautiful tomb in the chapel at Arundel Castle. Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury (d. 1460) and his wife Alice Montacute had 10 children, including two sons, Richard Earl of Warwick and John…

Eleanor Neville

The Rise of the Stanley family.

THE SIX SISTERS OF WARWICK THE KINGMAKER