Historia Regum Angliae
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JOHN ROUS – Author of The Rous Roll, Warwickshire Antiquarian, Chantry Chaplain and Turncoat Extraordinaire?
“Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, antiquarians, articles, attainders, Battle of Bosworth, British Library, Charles Ross, David Johnson, dedications, Earls of Warwick, Edward IV, elephants, enclosures, Fotheringhay, Guy’s Cliff, Henry VI, Historia Regum Angliae, John Rous, Latin, Nicholas Orme, October birthdays, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, sanctuary, Titulus Regius, vicar of Bray, Warwick, Yorkist RollReblogged fromA Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com John Rous ‘drawne by himselfe’. From the Latin ‘Lancastrian’ version of the rolls. College of Arms. John Rous or Rows as he called himself (b.c1420 d. 14 January 1492) was the son of Geoffrey Rous of Warwick, who was a younger son of Thomas Rous of Brinklow, and Margaret,…
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Well, of course Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But if, by any wild chance, his Historia Regum Britanniae is a flight of immense fancy, well that’s alright by me because it’s a wonderful work. 😊 To read more, go to this link.
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… his name was Rouse. He had the key to every house. He was suspected and then arrested …” (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU_ZWEjZvKAhUJ1h4KHfbYBp0QFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fopus.lingfil.uu.se%2FOpenSubtitles2012%2Fxml%2Fen%2F2005%2F20551%2F3099498_1of1.xml.gz&usg=AFQjCNF57cSMby7R2qZUHshq9kvRA28kXA&sig2=RZ7d8jSa-bulSdyeXFoUYg) Alfred Arthur Rouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rouse) was an ostensibly happily married commercial traveller, to Lily May Watkins, when in London. In other regions, he was a bachelor or occasionally “married” to a different woman. To end his…
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