Eleanor of Provence

NEW EXCAVATIONS AT CLARENDON PALACE

Mar 14, 2019

archaeology, buildings

“Catherine of Claringdon”, Becket, British Museum, catalepsy, Charles I, Clarendon Palace, Edward IV, Eleanor of Provence, Elizabeth I, excavations, George Monck, Henry II, Henry VI, madness, Plantagenets, Roman roads, royal mistresses, Salisbury, St. Catherine

Clarendon Palace is a little known historical site. Most people in Salisbury know it’s there; less can tell you how to reach it. There is no car park; you won’t find tourist coaches. Pull in on the narrow leafy green lane then you must walk, like a Hobbit leaving the Shire, past farms and across…
The Maligned Queen in the Car Park

Jun 22, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, religion

Amesbury Abbey, Arthur Plantagenet, car parks, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Provence, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Henry III, Inigo Jones, London Bridge, St. Melor’s

Added to the list of monarchs and notables found or potentially to be found beneath car parks, tennis courts, and other such mundane places must be the Queen of Henry III, Eleanor of Provence. Buried in Amesbury Priory after her body was kept in ‘storage’ by the nuns for two months while her son, Edward…
THE LOST FONT OF MARLBOROUGH CASTLE

Jun 20, 2018

archaeology, buildings, travel

anarchy, castles, churches, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Edward VI, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Provence, fonts, Henry III, Isabella of Angouleme, John, Marlborough Castle, Marlborough College, Richard I, Seymours, Silbury Hill, St. Nicholas, Stephen, William I, Worcester Cathedral

Marlborough is a quaint little town in Wiltshire. It has a rather famous College (once attended by Kate Middleton) but no buildings dating much before Tudor times other than two heavily restored churches. However, it used to have a castle, and a rather important one too. The first castle was built by William the Conqueror…
Llanthony Secunda Priory, one of Gloucester’s great treasures….

May 31, 2017

buildings

Arthur “Tudor”, Bishop of Bangor, Black Mountains, Catherine of Aragon, Edward I, Edward IV, Eleanor of Provence, Gloucester, Henry Deane, Henry III, Henry VII, Ireland, Llanthony Secunda, Richard II, Scotland, Wales

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…
THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY

Dec 2, 2016

buildings

Amesbury Abbey, Arthur Plantagenet, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Fontevrault, Henry II, Henry III, Hexham, Isabel of Lancaster, John, John de Warenne, John Lord Wenlock, Margaret lady Hungerford, Mary of Woodstock, Plantagenets, Reformation, Richard I, Richard III, Robert Baron hungerford, ruins, Stonehenge

The palatial 17thc mansion called Amesbury Abbey (now a private nursing home) stands in beautiful landscaped gardens near the curve of the Avon and on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage Landscape. The original monastic building from which it takes its name, the Fontrevraudine Priory of Amesbury, is long gone, a victim of Henry…
Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Debunking a Myth at Dartington Hall

Aug 11, 2016

buildings, travel

“Tudor” propaganda, 1475 invasion of France, Anne Holland, Anne of Exeter, Anne St. Leger, Azincourt, Barnet, Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral, cinquefoil, Dartington Hall, Devon, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Eleanor Cobham, Eleanor of Provence, emblems, Epiphany Rising, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Joan of Kent, John Ashdown-Hill, John Holland, John of Gaunt, Lancastrians, Margaret Beaufort, MI5, Richard II, Richard III, roses, Sir Thomas St. Leger, Southampton plot, St. Paul’s, summary executions, white hart

Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum Dartington Hall, near Totnes in Devon and just southeast of Dartmoor National Park, represents a uniquely British form of historical contradiction. It is both medieval, having parts of a Grade I-listed late 14th century manor house, and modern, being the current home of…
TWO BRIDES FOR TWO BROTHERS

Jul 29, 2016

genealogy

Anne Neville, Constanza of Castile, denialists, Edmund of Langley, Eleanor of Provence, George Duke of Clarence, Henry III, Hicks, Howard Keel, incest, Isabel of Castile, Isobel Neville, John of Gaunt, Louis IX, Richard III, Richard of Cornwall, Sanchia of Provence

‘Did Richard III Marry His Sister?’ Lurid headlines blared off a rag on sale during Richard’s re-interment week in March 2015. A certain anti-Richard professor was, once again, insisting that because Isabel Neville was sister to Anne Neville and married to Richard’s brother George, that made Richard Isabel’s ‘brother’ and therefore his union…