Isabel Neville

Secret Marriages – Edward IV & his Two Wives, the Novel

Jun 30, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, law, religion

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Mowbray, Anne Neville, Barnet, bigamy, Burton Dassett, Carmelite Priory, Christ’s College, coronations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, fiction, Henry VII, Isabel Neville, Janet Reedman, John Crowne, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Norwich, Poor Clare’s convent, Richard of Warwick, royal marriages, St. Erasmus Chapel, Talbot hound, Westminster Abbey, Whitefriars Monastery

Over the years there has been lots of fiction written about Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville and of course Richard III. However, there is one one figure in their story who often gets a mention, but is rarely portrayed as a living person, with the events long after her death in 1468 taking the forefront instead. …
Sir James Tyrrell – Sheriff of Glamorgan

May 6, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings

“Princes”, Anne Neville, Audrey Williamson, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Beaulieu Abbey, Captain of Guisnes, Constable of Cardiff Castle, executions, Gipping Hall, Isabel Neville, Jane Stradling, knights banneret, Middleham, Rhys ap Thomas, Scottish campaign 1482, Sheriff, Sir Edward Brampton, Sir Edward Stradling, Sir James Harrington, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Matthew Craddock, Sir William Parr, St. Donat’s Castle, Thomas Rotherham, Thomas Stradling, Tyrrell “confession”, Vice Constable of England, Wales, Warwick Inheritance, Welsh Marches, William Lord Hastings

As we said in an earlier article,“ Richard III appointed James Tyrrell Sherriff of Glamorgan and Constable of Cardiff in 1477. The importance of Glamorgan is little understood or recognised in Ricardian Studies, but this was certainly a key job and one of the most important at Richard’s disposal. The practical effect, given that Richard…
Edward of Middleham: the prince of Richard III

Apr 9, 2019

anniversaries, art, buildings, religion, sources

Anne Idley, Anne Neville, burial mystery, Charles Ross, Coronation, Coverham Abbey, Crowland Chronicle, dispensations, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, Earl of Salisbury, Edward of Middleham, George Duke of Clarence, investiture, Isabel Burgh, Isabel Neville, Jervaulx Abbey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Middleham, Nevilles, Nottingham, portrait, Prince of Wales, Prince’s Tower Middleham, Richard III, Sheriff Hutton, St. Alkelda’s, stained glass, York Minster

Edward of York, better known as Edward of Middleham, was the only legitimate son of King Richard III and his Queen, Anne Neville. Edward was thought to have been born in Middleham Castle in December 1473, but this date is not certain. The historian Charles Ross wrote that this date “lacks authority” and was…
l’Erber – the Kingmaker’s lost London home….

Feb 27, 2019

archaeology, buildings, heraldry

Baynard’s Castle, bear and ragged staff, Bridewell Palace, Cannon Street, Coldharbour, Edward III, Elizabeth I, George Duke of Clarence, Great Fire of London, Henry Chichele, Isabel Neville, Jack Cade, John Nevill Lord Raby, l’Erber, London, Old St. Paul’s, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Richard of Warwick, Sir Francis Drake, The history geeks, The London Stone

We’ve all heard of l’Erber (various spellings), but perhaps its history and location are not as easily recalled. The following article is from The History Geeks. I tried to give a direct link, but Facebook tells me the article is no longer available. I had found it through a Google search, and have copied…
Even Stanley suffered because of Henry VII’s avarice….

Oct 30, 2018

buildings

Anne Neville, avarice, british History Online, Chesilhurst, Dartford Manor, Dartford Priory, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Isabel Neville, John Brooke Lord Cobham, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Thomas Lord Stanley

This concerns Dartford Manor (and then priory) in Kent (above), of which you can read more at https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/02/DDAG/08/20.htm and http://www.akentishceremony.com/kcc-register-offices/the-manor-gatehouse/ My interest lies in the history of the manor, i.e. pre-Henry VIII. The following, which is taken from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp2-22, seems at first not to concern Dartford Manor, but its pattern of ownership is the same,…
Seeking the Real Duke of Clarence

Oct 21, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, sources

alcoholism, Ankarette Twynho, Anne Neville, Barnet, Bromham church, Buckingham rebellion, charisma, disloyalty, Edward IV, executions, fiction, George Duke of Clarence, Hicks, insanity, Isabel Neville, John Thursby. Sir Roger Tocotes, propaganda, puerperal fever, Richard III, stereotypes, Tewkesbury, Towton, tuberculosis, Warwick

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Richard III’s brother, George of Clarence. You know the one–typical ‘middle child’, ‘false fleeting Clarence’, the one drowned in Malmsey who was also a drunk and quite possibly insane, hanging, as he did, old ladies on the vaguest of suspicions. And I began considering–is George, like Richard, maligned,…
The puzzle of George of Clarence’s Calais wedding….

Jul 11, 2017

anniversaries, sources

Calais, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, grants, Isabel Neville, Jehan de Wavrin, Kenilworth, Kristie Davis Dean, marriages, Notre Dame, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Sandeman

The only certain thing that can be said of the marriage of George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, is that it took place in Calais. Oh, and that Isabel’s uncle, the Archbishop of York, performed the ceremony. After that, the picture is a little blurred. Which day? Which…
Elizabeth of York and the cult of Edward of Lancaster….

Jun 21, 2017

battles

“Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Middleham, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel Neville, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Westminster Abbey

Edward, Prince of Wales, the eighteen-year-old son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471. He became the subject of an exclusive posthumous cult. The chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey tells of the Prince’s death in battle and of his burial ‘in the mydste of the covent…
LOOKING FOR A KINGMAKER

Apr 4, 2017

buildings, genealogy

Anne Neville, Barnet, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Elizabeth Wydeville, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Isabel Neville, Lady Margaret Neville, Richard of Warwick, Sir Richard Huddleston, the Neville family, tombs, Warwick the Kingmaker

Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick is one of the most colourful and interesting figures of the 15th c. He put Edward IV on the throne, then fell out with him over his “marriage” with Elizabeth Woodville (and Edward’s increased chumminess with the Woodville family to the exclusion of Warwick) He married his elder daughter…
QUEEN ANNE NEVILL – HER BURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Mar 25, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

Anne Neville, Anne of Cleves, burials, Crowland Chronicle, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Chronicle, Isabel Neville, John Stow, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, WE Hampton, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://wordpress.com/post/sparkypus.com/449 Queen Anne Neville from the Salisbury Roll. Anne’s mantle equates her ancestorial arms with those of England and France. After Anne Neville’s death on the 16th March 1485 , she was given a magnificent funeral in Westminster Abbey ‘with honours no less than…