Joan of Kent

Anne Neville was a boar too….

Sep 7, 2016

heraldry

Anne Neville, Anne of Bohemia, badges, bear and ragged staff, blue borage flower, boar, daisy, Joan of Kent, Joan of Navarre, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Margaret of Shrewsbury, Nevilles, Sir Bernard Burke, Stafford knot, white hart

We always hear about the badges of medieval families, e.g. Richard III’s white boar, the Warwick bear and ragged staff, the Stafford knot, Richard II’s white hart and so on and so on, but what about the ladies? Maybe they didn’t ride into battle with the banners streaming (well, there were some notable exceptions, of…
Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Debunking a Myth at Dartington Hall

Aug 11, 2016

buildings, travel

“Tudor” propaganda, 1475 invasion of France, Anne Holland, Anne of Exeter, Anne St. Leger, Azincourt, Barnet, Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral, cinquefoil, Dartington Hall, Devon, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Eleanor Cobham, Eleanor of Provence, emblems, Epiphany Rising, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Joan of Kent, John Ashdown-Hill, John Holland, John of Gaunt, Lancastrians, Margaret Beaufort, MI5, Richard II, Richard III, roses, Sir Thomas St. Leger, Southampton plot, St. Paul’s, summary executions, white hart

Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum Dartington Hall, near Totnes in Devon and just southeast of Dartmoor National Park, represents a uniquely British form of historical contradiction. It is both medieval, having parts of a Grade I-listed late 14th century manor house, and modern, being the current home of…
Mediaeval women who got the man they wanted . . . .

May 4, 2015

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“Tudors”, Catherine de Valois, Cecilia, Edmund “Tudor”, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Gilbert de Clare, Joan of Acre, Joan of Kent, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mediaeval women, Owen Tudor, Ralph de Monthermer, Thomas Holland, Thomas Kymbe, Viscount Welles, William Montacute

There was an interesting Facebook post on 2nd May, by Lyndel Grover, drawing attention to a blog about Joan of Acre, who lived in the 13th century. http://historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/04/30/rebel-princess/. It made me think about other mediaeval women who had done what Joan did. By that I mean, marry the man they wanted, not the choice…

Joan of Kent

Anne Neville was a boar too….

Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Debunking a Myth at Dartington Hall

Mediaeval women who got the man they wanted . . . .