George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury
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This article explains how the site of the C12 castle in Sheffield, where Mary Stuart was held but which has been lost since partial demolition and decay in the 1640s, is being explored by organisations including Keltbray, after previous work by Wessex Archaeology from 2018. The area, now known as Castlegate, includes the confluence of…
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Talbot Country
“Lambert Simnel”, Alton Towers, Battle of Bosworth, Bess of Hardwick, bigamy, Bridgnorth, Castillon, destruction of records, Duchess of Norfolk, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edward Grey Lord Lisle, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Wydeville, evidence, executions, Fotheringhay, France, funicular railways, George Duke of Clarence, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VI, Henry VII, heraldic symbols, Hex, house arrest, House of York, Hundred Years War, illegitimacy, Jeanne d’Arc, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Lord Protector of the Realm, Margaret d’Anjou, Mary Stuart, memorials, Pontefract, pre-contract, pubs, Ralph Shaa, Richard III, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Shropshire, Simon Stallworth, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Staffordshire, Talbot hound, Talbot Monument, Talbots, The Shrewsbury Book, Titulus Regius, Tutbury castle, Wingfield ManorThere is a pub in Bridgnorth, near where I live. Well, let’s be honest, there’s about a hundred. If you have ever been to Bridgnorth, aside from the Severn Valley Railway, the funicular railway from Low Town to High Town and the remains of the slighted castle, which lean at a greater angle than the…
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Lambert Simnel and Edward V
“Lambert Simnel”, bastardy, Bermondsey Abbey, Bernard Andre, Chrimes, de la Pole family, Dublin, Earl of Oxford, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Edward Woodville, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Duke of Clarence, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VII, Ireland, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Lincoln, Lord Strange, Mancini, Martin Schwarz, Nottinghamshire, Old St. Paul’s, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sheen, Stoke Field, The Survival of the Princes in the Tower, Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Titulus Regius, York civic recordsI’m beginning to convince myself that the Lambert Simnel Affair might have been an uprising in favour of Edward V, not Edward, Earl of Warwick…. https://mattlewisauthor.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/lambert-simnel-and-edward-v/
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Re-enactment of, and history trail about, the Battle of Stoke Field….
“Lambert Simnel”, Battle of Bosworth, Battlefields Trust, Earl of Oxford, Edward of Warwick, Edward Woodville, Fiskerton, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VII, Ireland, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Lincoln, Lord Strange, Martin Schwarz, Newark, Sir Thomas Geraldine, Stoke Field, Wars of the RosesBecause I had considerable trouble finally reading all of this article, I have taken the liberty of copying it all, word for word. So I do not claim anything that follows . It is all Nottinghamshire live:- “It was the site of one of the most important battles in English history, a blood-soaked clash that…