George Duke of Clarence

Band of Brothers

Aug 13, 2015

genealogy

Anne Neville, comparisons, Edward IV, Edward of Middleham, extortion, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, killing, Margaret of Anjou, power, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, The Godfather series, William Catesby

When Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo began to write their classic Godfather movies, based on Mario Puzo’s pop novel, did they have the Plantagenet Brothers, Edward, George and Richard in mind as the prototypes of Sonny, Fredo and Michael Corleone? Whether they did or not, the parallels among the characters and their historical counterparts are quite interesting and in several instances, astonishing.…
More news from Jamestown:

Aug 4, 2015

archaeology, genealogy, Science

Bartholomew Gosnold, Catholic symbols, George Duke of Clarence, Jamestown, remains

As we established last year, Bartholomew Gosnold’s cousin was married to one of Clarence’s great-great-granddaughters (https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/the-explorer-and-the-clarence-descendant/). Now we can identify four of the 1607 founders who died in Jamestown during 1610: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3177841/Scientists-identify-men-died-Virginias-Jamestown-400-years-ago.html. We can identify them as Rev. Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Captains William West and Gabriel Archer. The latter was, intriguingly, buried with…
To avoid any confusion:

Aug 1, 2015

genealogy

“Eleanor”, Affinity, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, consanguinity, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Fourth Lateran Council, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Warwick, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Bedford, John of Gaunt, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, Marie Barnfield, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick

When Edward IV married Lady Eleanor Talbot in spring 1461, they were not more closely related than fourth cousins, through her mother, Margaret Beauchamp (see Eleanor, fig.11). Under the rules of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 (p.112), such distant blood relations were permitted to marry without a dispensation. It no longer amounted to consanguinity.…
The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival 2015

Jul 19, 2015

Events

Barnet, Bath, Bloody Meadow, Bristol, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, France, George Duke of Clarence, Gloucester, Gupshill Manor, Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou, photos, re-enactment, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury Mediaeval Festival, Towton, Welsh Marches, Weymouth

I’ve been wanting to attend this festival for at least 20 years and finally everything came together this year and I was able to take my family with me for an orgy of medieval shopping, weaponry, costumes and merchandising followed by the re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury on part of the original site…
Churchdown Hill and the Battle of Tewkesbury….

Jul 18, 2015

battles

Barnet, Berkeley Castle, Churchdown Hill, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, George Duke of Clarence, Gloucester, Iron Age, Jasper “Tudor”, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sodbury Hill, St. Bartholomew’s, Tewkesbury, Vale of the Severn, Wales, Weymouth

(Photograph from http://sulismanoeuvre.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-chosen-hill-church-scratchings.html) The Gloucestershire village in which I live, Churchdown, is down in the Vale of the Severn, at the foot of the Cotswolds. It is dominated by one of two outlier hills in the area, Churchdown (or Chosen) Hill and Robinswood Hill. Both are on the outskirts of the city of Gloucester.…
Edward IV – no pussycat!

Jul 2, 2015

law

Bognor Regis, Charles II, Countess of Warwick, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry VI, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury

I find it – interesting, shall we say – that some people are so keen to hate Richard III that they tend to play down the fact that his brother, Edward IV, was at least as ruthless, if not more so. This does no service to Edward, who in some narratives seems to be a…
On the preservation of sources beyond our shores

Jun 8, 2015

sources

Anne Sutton, Barrie Williams, Burgundy, Calais, denialists, George Duke of Clarence, Human Shredder, Ireland, Jehan de Wavrin, Joanna, John Ashdown-Hill, Mountjoy, Portugal, Richard III, Robert Morton, Robert Stillington, Vergil

Our post on Thursday (https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-book-kendall-could-write-today-4-two-little-boys/) showed that Jehan de Wavrin’s comments on the relative sizes of George and Richard in 1461 are available to us because Wavrin’s “Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne” (p.357) was composed in Burgundy. It was, therefore, beyond the reach of the “Tudor” agent known as the…
A highly recommended blog, with maybe even a newly recognised likeness of Richard…

Mar 21, 2015

art

Anne Neville, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, portraits, Richard III

I draw attention to the blog at http://thedragonhound.com/2015/…/20/anne-nevilles-portraits/ It is not mine, I hasten to say, although I wish it were. It contains not only possible portraits of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel and various other prominent ladies of Edward IV’s court, but also likenesses that may well be Richard and George. Maybe even Buckingham standing…
Not to be missed …

Mar 13, 2015

buildings

Anne Neville, Anthony Woodville, Blackfriars, Bosworth, Dissolution, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, George Duke of Clarence, Greyfriars, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, horses, Joanna, John Ashdown-Hill, John Morton, John Speed, Leicester, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sutton Cheney, Tewkesbury, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lord Stanley, Vaughan, White Boar Inn

John Ashdown-Hill’s piece in “History Extra”, defusing a few persistent myths: http://www.historyextra.com/article/richard-iii/6-myths-about-richard-iii?utm_source=Twitter+referral&utm_medium=t.co&utm_campaign=Bitly
George of Clarence gets a makeover….

Jan 5, 2015

Uncategorized

art, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Isabel Neville, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Warwick

Well, perhaps ‘makeover’ isn’t quite right, because he’s been flattered by Leonardo da Vinci’s The Musician. See above. There again, perhaps I do George an injustice by saying he’s been flattered, because we don’t know what he looked like, only that he had Edward IV and Richard III for brothers. So, I think it would…