James III
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As this excellent article reminds us, there were eight pre-union Stewart monarchs, or nine if you exclude James VI, who had already reigned in Scotland for nearly forty years before inheriting the English throne. Of these, excepting the two Roberts, only two turned up for a pitched battle with against an English army and only…
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A PRINCESS OF DEVON
attainder, Bickleigh Castle, Catherine of York, Devon, Duke of Ross, earls of devon, Edmund de la Pole, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Eltham Palace, Henry VII, Henry VIII, James III, John Welles, Lancastrians, Manuel, marriages, Ralph Scrope, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Tiverton Castle, Tower of LondonAfter the battle of Bosworth, Henry VII married Edward IV’s daughter Elizabeth of York. What happened to Edward’s other daughters? Bridget, the youngest, went to a nunnery. Anne married the younger Thomas Howard (which was the marriage proposed for her by Richard III; Thomas Jr’s father Thomas still desired the marriage for his son and…
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At the time of Whitelaw’s memorable meeting with Richard III, he was nearly seventy. He had already been a scholar, a teacher, a cleric and a diplomat in the service of James II, James III and his regents, having negotiated the unusual Stewart-York treaty that preceded the siege of Roxburgh. He had already enjoyed up…
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Perkin Warbeck: A Story of Deception – The Fascinating Enigma as presented in Ann Wroe’s biography
“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, Ann Wroe, Arthur “Tudor”, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Ferdinand of Aragon, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel of Castile, James III, James IV, John Morton, Lady Catherine Gordon, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Maximilian of Austria, Richard of ShrewsburyOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: I wanted to write a piece about the man who we know as Perkin Warbeck or Piers Osbeck or Richard Plantagenet or King Richard IV or whoever he may have been if he was none of these other men after reading Ann Wroe’s excellent biography on this most appealing…
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Richard of Gloucester as Lord of the North and the siege of Berwick 1482
Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Bamburgh, Berwick, borders, Brough, Brougham, Carlisle, Cecilia, Cecily Duchess of York, Coldingham, Council of the North, Croyland, Cumberland, Duke of Albany, Duke of Angus, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Hadrian’s Wall, Henry VII, James III, James IV, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord of the North, Middleham, Paston Letters, Penrith Castle, Ralph Neville, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sheriff Hutton, siege of Berwick, Sixtus IV, Thomas Lord StanleyOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having recently visited some of Richard’s holdings in the north of England such as Penrith Castle which he was given after the death of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick in 1471, I wanted to write a short piece about his role as Lord Warden of the West Marches and Sheriff…
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Going by the searches here, many of you will have read the suggestion, in Baldwin’s “The Lost Prince”*, that “Anne Hopper” was a daughter of Richard III by an unknown mother from the Borders region, conceived during his marriage and provided for with a ring among other things. The problem with this argument is that…
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