Joan of Navarre

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…
Another “Lancastrian” widow

May 17, 2015

genealogy, law

Catherine de Valois, Dunbar Castle, Henry IV, Henry V, James I, Joan “Beaufort”, Joan of Navarre, Lancastrians, Royal widows, Scotland

Last week, we saw how Joan of Navarre, the widow of Henry IV, was imprisoned for witchcraft and only released after Henry V, her stepson, died. We were also reminded how legislation was passed just a few years later to prevent royal widows from marrying during their sons’ minorities – this was aimed at Catherine…
The trouble with Lancastrian Royal widows

May 5, 2015

law

Catherine de Valois, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Joan of Navarre, John Ashdown-Hill, Parliament, Royal Marriage Secrets

Page 69 of Ashdown-Hill’s Royal Marriage Secrets indicates that an Act of Parliament was passed in 1427, forbidding the re-marriage of a royal widow without the consent of an adult king. It has also been clearly established that Catherine de Valois, the widow of Henry V at whom the legislation was surely aimed, died in…

Joan of Navarre

Anne Neville was a boar too….

Another “Lancastrian” widow

The trouble with Lancastrian Royal widows