Henry of Grosmont

The murdered Lancastrian countess and the disappearing Yorkist ghost rider….

Mar 22, 2024

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion, sources

Blanche of Lancaster, british History Online, drowning, Edward II, Edward IV, executions, ghosts, Gloucestershire, Henry III, Henry of Grosmont, illegitimacy, Kempsford Castle, Lords Ordainers, Margaret of Anjou, Maud Chaworth, Owlpen Manor, Pontefract, possible canonisation, Prestbury, River Thames, Tewkesbury, Thomas Earl of Lancaster

Gloucestershire doesn’t lack ghostly stories, not least about the Wars of the Roses with, for example, Margaret of Anjou prowling the rooms of Owlpen Manor and the phantom messenger, on his way through Prestbury to Edward IV at Tewkesbury in May 1471 when he was killed by an arrow. He still gallops through the village…
Ricardian History For Sale in Leicester

Jun 18, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Battle of Bosworth, Blanche of Castile, Blue Boar Inn, Castle Gate, Henry of Grosmont, Henry VI, knighthoods, Lancastrian burials, Leicester, Leicester Castle, Mary de Bohun, Parliament of Bats, relics, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, St. Mary De Castro, The Newarke, Trinity Hospital, weapons

Castle Gate in Leicester is currently on the market for £800,000. Renovated inside to form a spacious house, Castle Gate was built in the 15th century and was the main entrance to the bailey of Leicester Castle. The Great Hall of the castle still exists and is a few hundred yards away. It is encased…
In suo jure (or titles that did pass through the female line)

Apr 29, 2017

genealogy, law

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Mowbray, Barons Stafford, Blanche of Lancaster, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls of Essex, Earls of Warwick, Edmund Crouchback, Edward of Warwick, feminism, Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, Henry IV, Henry of Grosmont, in suo jure, John Baron Devereux, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John of Gaunt, Lady Carina Howard, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, Margaret Duchess of Norfolk, Mary Stafford, Michael Earl of Loudoun, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Sir David Frost, Thomas of woodstock, titles, Walter Devereux Earl of Essex, William Howard Viscount Stafford

In this post, we reminded our readers that a lineal Lancastrian is a person descended from Blanche, the younger daughter of Henry of Grosmont, not from her husband, John of Gaunt, by another wife. Titles usually fit into these categories: i) To begin with, many older titles were created before Letters Patent in such a way that they…
Henry the “Lancastrian”? Another own goal

Mar 10, 2017

humour

“Tudor, Beaufort, Blanche of Lancaster, Catherine de Roet, Durose, Eleanor of Lancaster, evidence, genealogy, Henry of Grosmont, Henry VII, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Lancastrians, Mary of Lancaster, own goals, Swynford, trolls

You may have read here, here, here or even here about the regular own goals of a certain “Tudor”-ist troll. Anyway, given the fact that Henry VII, whether Tudor, Beaufort or Swynford, is not descended from Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster in suo jure but from her husband’s mistress and later wife, Katherine de Roet, he…

Henry of Grosmont

The murdered Lancastrian countess and the disappearing Yorkist ghost rider….

Ricardian History For Sale in Leicester

In suo jure (or titles that did pass through the female line)

Henry the “Lancastrian”? Another own goal