Henry VII
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The Duchy of Lancaster controversy that began in the 14th century….
“Tudors”, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Catherine of Valois, Constance of Castile, Duchy of Lancaster, Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl of March, Edward III, Edward III’s entail, Henry IV, Henry IV Part I Shakespeare, Henry V, Henry VII, House of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Katherine of Valois, Lionel of Clarence, Lords Appellant, Owen Tudor, Philippa of Clarence, Richard II, Roger Mortimer 4th Earl of March, Sir Simon Burley, usurpers“….The Duchy of Lancaster came to the Crown in controversy and it’s still making headlines today….” If you want to read about the duchy, its history and what’s happening now, see here https://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/. But my purpose here is to unpick certain untruths about the duchy that are constantly and unfairly stitched upon the memory of…
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We all know of the paltry 2016 work of fiction by Terry Breverton titled Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King. For more of Mr Breverton himself, see here http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-breverton/). In the book it is stated that “….Henry’s first parliament also reinstated his mother with the lands and grant taken from her by Richard III….” What…
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MORE ON ELIZABETH WOODVILLE’S LOST CHAPEL, LITTLE ANNE MOWBRAY AND THE WOMEN OF THE MINORIES
“Princes”, “Princess in the Police Station”, Anne Mowbray, Catherine of Valois, Chapel of Erasmus Westminster Abbey, Convent of the Minoresses, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VII, House of Mowbray, J.P. Reedman, Katherine of Valois, London bombsites, Minories, Samuel Pepys, Sir James Tyrell, Sir Robert Brackenbury, St George’s Chapel WindsorWhile researching my novel on Anne Mowbray, the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, younger of the two Princes in the Tower, I found out several things I was previously unaware of. I knew, of course that young Anne’s burial was accidentally discovered in a crypt under a London bombsite that had disappeared. It was…
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If you go to this link https://monthlyreview.org/2024/10/01/richard-iii-the-tudor-myth-and-the-transition-from-feudalism-to-capitalism/ you will find a long and detailed argument that the vilification of Richard III had a lot to do with the poor economic situation in Tudor England. Said vilification might have been a smokescreen, a diversion from the problems besetting the Tudor realm. In other words it was…
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More about Elizabeth Woodville dying of the plague….
“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Andrea Badoer Venetian Ambassador to London, Battle of Bosworth, Bermondsey Abbey, Blanche Duchess of Lancaster, Catherine of Valois, Dr Euan Roger, Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset, Edward IV, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry IV, Henry VII, Henry VIII, House of Beaufort, John of Gaunt, Katherine de Roët, Katherine of Valois, Katherine Swynford, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, plague, Richard III, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486I have written before about Elizabeth Woodville having possibly died of one plague or another, see https://murreyandblue.org/2019/09/26/did-elizabeth-wydville-die-of-the-plague/. I came upon the theory back in September 2019, and the article that prompted my post was by Lydia Starbuck of Royal Central (https://royalcentral.co.uk/author/lstarbuck/). A curious letter of 1511 (from Andrea Badoer, the Venetian ambassador to London,…
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Richard III the Ruthless….?
“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, executions, Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham Duke of Buckingham, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lord Protector, Philippa Langley, Richard III, royal succession England, Thomas Langton, Titulus Regius, Woodvilles‘He [Richard III] contents the people wherever he goes better than ever did any prince, for many a poor man that has suffered wrong many days has been relieved and helped by him…God hath sent him to us for the welfare of us all.’ So wrote J B Sheppard (ed), Christ Church Letters: A Volume…
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The above painting depicts the way the body of Richard III was humiliated and desecrated before he was taken back to Leicester after Bosworth. The fallen king had been humiliated and desecrated on the battlefield, and then treated like a sack of rubbish as he was conveyed back to Leicester. That a King of England…
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I recently watched an episode of Antiques Road Trip in which a sequence was set in Hedingham Castle in Essex. It was Series 11, Episode 23, in which art experts Mark Stacy and Thomas Plant travelled through Essex and Suffolk on their way to an auction in Cambridgeshire. I fear I have not been able…
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I’ve seen many old photographs and drawings of past actors who’ve played Richard III (the Bard’s mockery, of course), and I know many actresses have played him as well, but this time I’ve come across something new. Well, new to me. Two child sisters, Ellen and Kate Bateman, who played Richard and Henry Tudor respectively.…
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