“ghost children”
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Yes, it’s Weir(d) Babies 4 here, and another post poking fun at a certain “historian” who seem to pull royal babies out of thin air and include them in genealogies. This time, the extraneous little cherubs were credited to that notably fertile pair, Edward I and Eleanor of Castile…as if they did not already have…
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Just a hypothesis, but …
“ghost children”, death in infancy, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Eleanor of Provence, Flores Historiarum, Hazel Pierce, Henry III, Henry IV, James II, John of Gaunt, Kathryn Warner, Lancastrian propaganda, Margaret Howell, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Parris, mysteries, planets, Sir Richard Pole, St. Edmund, St. Edward the Confessor, twins, WeirWe know that John of Gaunt and Henry IV claimed their ancestor, Edmund Crouchback Earl of Lancaster, to have been born before Edward I, however we have sources showing this propaganda to be specious. We know Henry III and Eleanor of Provence, to have had five children: Edward, Margaret, Beatrice, Edmund and Katherine. Sources such…
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The Central Line Consort?
“Eleanor”, “ghost children”, Central Line, Crecy, david II, Edward II, Edward III, Eleanor of Castile, Elephant and Castle, Elizabeth I, France, Henry IV, Hundred Years War, John Ashdown-Hill, Kathryn Warner, London underground, marriage plans, Mary de Bohun, Neville’s Cross, Newbury Park, Northern Line, parallels, Paul Johnson, Phillippa of Hainault, pregnancies, Richard II, Richard III, royal marriages, Scotland, Wars of the Roses, WeirKathryn Warner has been Edward II’s main chronicler for a few years now, writing about the King himself, his times, his great-grandson Richard II, several other relatives the roots of the “Wars of the Roses”. This book is about Edward’s daughter-in-law, although he tried a little to prevent his eldest son’s marriage during his own…
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