John Ashdown-Hill
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Well, I confess I always thought Henry VII only had one uncle on the paternal side, and that was Jasper. So just who is in the above illustration? The Tudors as being important in English history commenced with the affair between the widowed Katherine of Valois and the rather lowly Welshman Owen Tudor. They had…
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Well, it seems they won’t allow the inspection of That Urn because it wouldn’t prove whether Richard III, Henry VII or whoever else murdered the boys. See here. No, but it would prove if the remains belong to the boys, and not to the animals and Roman remains that are so strongly suspected. For heaven’s…
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As Ashdown-Hill found, although he was unable to locate her precisely in the genealogical research that eventually located Michael Ibsen as a mitochondrial DNA match for Richard III, Richard’s sister Margaret Duchess of Burgundy was buried in a Franciscan church in Mechelen, in her Duchy Although it was destroyed during subsequent religious conflicts, a reconstruction…
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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL AND THE ROYAL WINDOW
Canterbury Cathedral, Catherine of York, Cicely Plantagenet, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Morton, Luton Guild Book, Mary of York, Puritans, Richard Culmer, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal mistresses, Royal Windows, stained glass, Thomas Becket, William NeveEdward IV and Elizabeth Wydeville. Original 15th century stained glass panels. Royal Window North West Transept Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral, of all the cathedrals I have managed to visit, remains firmly on my ‘favourites’ list. I lived there for a while many years ago, having been entranced by the city and cathedral on…
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Completing the Set (2006) – Henry VIII’s other “wives”
“wives”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Blanche of Lancaster, Catherine de Valois, Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, Edward I, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Gaunt, Ricardian, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Salisbury, Royal Marriage Secrets, Wendy Moorhen{as adapted from the Ricardian Bulletin: December 2006} Introduction The Ricardian article The Lancastrian claim to the throne (John Ashdown-Hill, 2003) showed Henry’s relationship to Catherine of Aragon, both descended from Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt. Genealogical conundrums (Wendy Moorhen, 2006) illustrated the descent of Anne Boleyn, her first cousin…
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A further secret marriage …
Andre Previn, Beatrice, denialists, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Sussex, Ed Sheeran, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Eugenie of York, Jack Brooksbank, John Ashdown-Hill, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Louis XIV, Royal Marriage Secrets, royal marriages, secret marriage… has been contracted between Princess Beatrice of York and property developer Count Edoardo Mapozzi. Unlike the cases of her sister and cousins the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, we cannot easily trace a common ancestor for the couple. Of course, despite those who still claim that Edward IV’s 1461 secret marriage didn’t happen, Louis…
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This article is about George Easton, the jeweller who created Richard III’s crown (see above) for the funeral and reinterment at Leicester. And he did so with the assistance of John Ashdown-Hill, although John’s name isn’t mentioned. George’s business is called Danegeld: “….A land tax in Anglo-Saxon England might not sound the most glamorous starting…
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Oh, indeed, as Captain Bertorelli would have said, “What a mistake-a to make-a!” I certainly made one when I turned to the PBS America channel on TV, and they were showing Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Well, it might contain one voice of reason (John Ashdown-Hilll) but it also has much more…
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