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SIR HENRY BODRUGAN – A LINK TO RICHARD III, EDWARD V, COLDRIDGE AND THE DUBLIN KING

Aug 17, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, sources, Uncategorized

“Lambert Simnel”, A.L. Rouse, attainders, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Bodrugan Barton, Brittany, Buckingham rebellion, Calendar of Patent Rolls, chaperone, Charles Ross, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Coldridge, Cornwall, coronations, Courtenays, David Baldwin, earls of devon, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, France, Francis Viscount Lovell, Harleian Manuscript, imprisonment, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, John Beaumont, John Earl of Lincoln, John Reskymer, knights of the body, Lovell rebellion, Megavissey, ODNB, Richard Antron, Richard III, Robert Markenfield, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Sir Henry Trenowith, Sir John Evans, Sir Richard Edgecumbe, Star Chamber Proceedings, Stoke Field, The Dublin King, The Parochial History of Cornwall

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @sparkypus.com Bodrugan Leap – a traditional Cornish story tells of how Sir Henry Bodrugan leaped from this cliff top to a waiting boat and made his escape first to France and later to Ireland. If you are reading this then it is also likely that you have read my other various…
Louise, the mincing monarch….!

Jul 30, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, culture

Channel Five, court dress, France, high heels, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, misprints, Salic Law, Secrets of the Royal Palaces, Versailles, wigs

A little later than our period, but sometimes a laugh pops up out of nowhere and I have to share. I was looking through catch-up TV and came upon the following blurb for an episode of the Royal Palaces series: “…Versailles is one of the most enormous and impressive palaces in the world. Louise…
Clearing up a French genealogical mystery (2)

Jul 14, 2022

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law

“Louis XX”, Bonapartists, Bourbons, Charles X, claimants, Edward III, Elizabeth II, England, Felipe VI, France, Francisco Franco, Henry VIII, India, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Napoleon III, Orleanists, Salic Law, Spain, wills

Just over six years ago, we published an article about the claimants to the French throne. They divide into three lines: BOURBONS: Charles X’s male line, comprising the entire legitimate male line of Louis XIV with one proviso, became extinct in 1883. The exceptions are the Spanish Borbons, with their habit of…
The Three Estates – and a useful comparison

Jul 9, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources

“Princes”, attainder, bigamy, canon law, depositions, Edward II, Edward IV, Estates General, France, French Revolution, George Duke of Clarence, illegitimacy, James Gairdner, Louis XVI, National Assembly of France, Parliament, Philip IV, power of the church, pre-contract, R.H. Helmholz, Richard II, Richard III, Three Estates

In June 1483, as we all know, the Three Estates of England met, declared the throne vacant due to the illegitimacy of Edward IV’s offspring. They also decided that the Duke of Clarence‘s children were barred by his attainder, thereby offering the Crown to the Duke of Gloucester. The usually hostile Gairdner, as we know,…
The floating town the French invented for invading England in 1385/6….

May 30, 2022

battles, buildings, travel

A Distant Mirror, bad weather, Barbara Tuchman, Calais, Duke of Burgundy William I, floating harbours, France, Napoleon, Normandy, planned invasions, Second World War

It seems that in 1386 a second “Norman Invasion” was planned by the French. And a “stupendous” part of the preparations included a portable wooden town to house and protect the invaders when they landed. I found the following description in Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, page 426 of my copy:- “….A huge camp enclosing…
Not Russian to judgement?

May 18, 2022

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion

Catherine the Great, France, Georgia, Henry VIII, James VII/II, morganatic marriage, Nicholas II, Pauline rules, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Revolution, Salic Law, Useful Charts

So, having examined the succession to the English monarchy according to Henry VIII’s will and the British monarchy if James VII/II had not been ousted, what do “Useful Charts” make of Russia? First, a few points to note:1) Russia had a monarch as late as 1917, more recently than France (1871).2) The Russian Revolution, with…
A further anachronism

May 14, 2022

anniversaries, battles, television reviews

Alexandre Dumas, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles I, childbirth, English Civil War, Exeter, exile, France, Henrietta Maria, Louis XIII, Peter Capaldi, The Three Musketeers

Many of you will have watched the 2014-16 BBC production of The Musketeers, the first series of which starred Peter Capaldi as Cardinal Richelieu. The third series was based on Dumas’ lesser-known sequels, in which Henrietta Maria, separated from her husband Charles I for her own safety and by mutual consent, is permanently residing with…
More Royal ancestry

Apr 8, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, Science, television reviews, The play’s the thing

actresses, Alexander Armstrong, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, astronomy, Barings Bank, Battle of Surbiton, bigamy, burials, Careys, Clare Balding, comedians, Dame Judi Dench, Danny Dyer, Dartmoor, Denmark, Duke of Hamilton, Edict of Nantes, Edward IV, Elsinore, English Civil War, executions, France, Frank Gardner, Groom of the Stool, Guildenstern, Hamlet, Henry Earl of Holland, Henry VIII, Hugenots, illegitimacy, Ireland, Joe Sugg, Josh Widdicombe, Lettice Knollys, Mark Wright, Mary Boleyn, Military Cross, Normandy, Ophelia, religious persecution, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Rosencrantz, royal palaces, Sabine Baring-Gould, secret marriage, Tom Stoppard, Trenchard Manor, Tycho Brahe, Westminster Abbey, Who do you think you are?, Will Kemp, William Shakespeare

Who do you think you are? has now completed eighteen series as British television’s predominant genealogy programmes. In that time, with an average of eight episodes per series, they have uncovered many celebrities with interesting lineage and some unexpected royal descendants, including Alexander Armstrong, Clare Balding, Danny Dyer, Frank Gardner and Sir Matthew Pinsent. Now…
Was 29th March a day of retribution for a certain 14th-century lord….?

Mar 29, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources, travel

adultery, Blanche of Lancaster, Bridge of San Lorenzo, Britannica, Buda, Bustardthorpe, Charles VI, childbirth, conception, Crusades, Dartington Hall, diplomacy, disputed paternity, Elizabeth of Lancaster, envoys, France, Froissart, funeral effigy, Ireland, Isabel of Castile, Jerusalem, John Duke of Exeter, Mediaeval chronicles, murder, Old St. Paul’s, Order of the Passion, Philippe de Mézières, pilgrimage, questions of paternity, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Vienna

For the past two/three years I have been grappling (off and on, so to speak) with some defiant dates. No doubt I’ve bewailed this particular problem before because my interest in the lord concerned is quite considerable. Not least because he may have had great significance for the House of York. So here goes…
Trial by combat proved nothing in the end….

Mar 19, 2022

battles, films, law, sources

Charles VI, Crusades, duel, France, Froissart, Jacques le Gris, Jean de Carrouges, Knights, Marguerite de Carrouges, Otterburn, rape, Scotland, siege of Nicopolis, Trial by combat, Turks, witchcraft

Trial by combat was a last-ditch method of proving one’s case. Of course, it didn’t prove innocence or guilt, just that one or other of the combatants was luckier/stronger on the day. Nor did trial by water prove a woman innocent of witchcraft, because it killed her no matter what the outcome. If…