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Elizabeth Woodville’s Wiltshire Retreat

Feb 11, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, law, religion

attainders, Chantry chapels, daughters of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Farleigh Hungerford, Hexham, Heytesbury, hospitals, Hungerfords, John Nesfield, proclamations, Richard III, sanctuary, Westminster Abbey, Wiltshire

Elizabeth Woodville left sanctuary with her daughters on March 1, 1484, after Richard III swore a public oath that she and her daughters would be unharmed and that he would find the girls suitable matches. But where did she go then? Her daughters were, at least part time, welcome at court, but ‘Dame Grey’ as…
A Fateful Convergence – two men with complex loyalties who faced the same place of execution

Jul 31, 2015

genealogy

Battle of Bosworth, executions, Farleigh Hungerford, Henry of Buckingham, Hexham, Hungerfords, Isobel Neville, Margaret of Salisbury, Norton St. Phillip, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Hungerford, Salisbury, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Thomas Hungerford, Walter Hungerford

Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Plaque for Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham I recently visited Salisbury in Wiltshire and stood by the plaque which commemorates the execution on 2nd November 1483 of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham on the site of the Blue Boar Inn. His ghost is said to haunt Debenhams which stands…