heraldry

Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge and its Royal Patrons

Apr 14, 2017

buildings, religion, travel

Anne Neville, Anne Sutton, bells, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Charles II, Christ’s College, churches, Easter, Edward III, Elizabeth Wydeville, Erasmus, Grey Friars, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heraldry, Jewish community, John Fisher, King’s College Chapel Cambridge, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Leicester, Livia Visser-Fuchs, Margaret of Anjou, Martin Bucer, Mary I, Matthew Parker, Michaelhouse, Peasants’ Revolt, portcullis, Queens’ College Cambridge, Richard III, St. John’s College, Thomas Barowe, Thomas de Chiveley, Thomas Rotherham, tomb, Trinity College

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: ? ? ? In the very heart of historic Cambridge, stands a tall and elegant late Perpendicular Gothic church, sandwiched between the colleges and market square. The church of St Mary the Virgin has stood on the site since 1205; the first recorded rector being Thomas de Chiveley who was…
OLD FAMILIAR FACES: THE HUNKY PUNKS OF LANGPORT

Nov 3, 2016

buildings, travel

churches, grotesques, Henry VII, heraldry, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Langport, portcullis, Reginald Bray, saints, Somerset, Taunton

The last few times I’ve gone to visit the other half’s family in Somerset, we’ve driven through the town of Langport, a small place now but once an actual port and quite an important site in the Middle Ages. As we rounded the corner in the car, I kind of obliquely wondered why there was…
The saga of how I eventually acquired The Complete Armory by Sir Bernard Burke….

Oct 3, 2016

Uncategorized

Anne Neville, badges, bear and ragged staff, boar, heraldry, Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms

The above illustration is actually of Sir Bernard Burke dressed as Ulster King of Arms for a fancy dress ‘do’, but he really was Ulster King of Arms! I recently posted about Anne Neville sharing a white boar badge with Richard, see this post , although hers was muzzled and chained. Or so is claimed…
Images of Power: Royal iconography during the Plantagenet period

Dec 11, 2015

art

Anne Neville, Anne of Bohemia, Edward I, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heraldry, Portuguese marriage plans, propaganda, Richard II, Richard III, St. Edward the Confessor, St. George, symbolism, Wilton Diptych

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Combining my two great loves, history and art, I want to look at some of the imagery used to depict Plantagenet kings during the period and taking a few examples examine what the visual language may be telling us about how kingship was viewed and how the kings themselves…
This Gentill Day Dawes

Jul 20, 2015

Alternative History

“Perkin”, Alison Hanham, Anne Neville, Chapel Royal, Edward of Lancaster, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heraldry, Leicester, Margaret of Anjou, music, renaissance, Richard de la Pole, Richard III, roses

For fans of historical music one of the highlights of the reinterment festivities in Leicester earlier this year was “Concert for a King”, an evening with music from the time of Richard III performed by the a capella group Aitone and guest instrumentalist Susan Burns, with contemporary texts read by Dr. Tony Bentley. It took…
Murrey and Blue: New Livery Colors for a New Regime?

Jan 3, 2015

battles, genealogy, The play’s the thing

Edmund Duke of York, fetterlock and falcon, Henry IV, Henry V, heraldry, Ireland, John of Gaunt, Lord of Ireland, Ludford Bridge, murrey and blue, Richard Duke of York, Yorkist colours

Did the House of York, founded by Edmund of Langley, first duke of York, have distinctive livery colors? Perhaps this is an unusual question to ask, because I’ve always been under the impression that those colors were murrey and blue. In their text Heraldry, published in 1993, Rouge Croix Pursuivant Henry Bedingfeld and Lancaster Herald…

heraldry

Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge and its Royal Patrons

OLD FAMILIAR FACES: THE HUNKY PUNKS OF LANGPORT

The saga of how I eventually acquired The Complete Armory by Sir Bernard Burke….

Images of Power: Royal iconography during the Plantagenet period

This Gentill Day Dawes

Murrey and Blue: New Livery Colors for a New Regime?