John Earl of Oxford

Did Henry VII really fine the Earl of Oxford a huge sum for his loyalty….?

Sep 8, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry, law

antiques road trip, Battle of Bosworth, Chrimes, Essex, fines, Francis Bacon, hedingham castle, Henry VII, John Earl of Oxford, Sir William Stanley

I recently watched an episode of Antiques Road Trip in which a sequence was set in Hedingham Castle in Essex. It was Series 11, Episode 23, in which art experts Mark Stacy and Thomas Plant travelled through Essex and Suffolk on their way to an auction in Cambridgeshire. I fear I have not been able…
Who does the hard work?

Jun 16, 2024

anniversaries, battles, humour, Science

Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Stoke, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Oxford, vacuum cleaners
Thomas Tresham – Lancastrian and Speaker of the Commons.

Jan 31, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, law

attainder, Barnet, edmund lenthall, francis tresham, Gunpowder Plot, Henry VI, Henry VII, High Sheriffs, huntingdon castle, Jack Cade, John Earl of Oxford, jps, Lord Grey of Ruthin, Margaret of Anjou, mary zouche, MPs, Richard Duke of York, Second Battle of St. Albans, simon norwich, Sir Thomas Tresham, Sir William Tresham, Sir William Vaux, Tewkesbury, Tower of London, Towton

Thomas Tresham was born in about 1420. He was the son of William Tresham and Isabel Vaux. (Isabel Vaux was the great-aunt of that Sir William Vaux who was executed at Tewkesbury.) William Tresham was an important servant of Henry VI, which undoubtedly helped his son’s advancement. In 1443, father and son were appointed joint…
Portugal, our oldest ally, honoured before the 2023 Trooping the Colour….

Oct 22, 2023

anniversaries, battles, Events, heraldry

Barnet, ceremonies, Ferdinand I, John Earl of Oxford, Portugal, Richard of Warwick, treaty of Tagilde, Treaty of Windsor, Trooping the Colours

Trooping the Colour is purely ceremonial these days, but in times gone by, when there was no instant communication on the battlefield, prior to the conflict the flag (colours) was paraded (trooped) up and down the lines of soldiers to remind them of exactly what their own flag looked like. This may sound unnecessary, but…
The Blue Boar, Richard III’s hidden treasure….and the ghost….!

Oct 15, 2023

battles, buildings, heraldry

Battle of Bosworth, Blue Boar Inn, ghosts, Henry VII, John Earl of Oxford, Leicester, Leicester Museums, Lord mayor of Leicester, Richard III, Thomas Clarke, White Boar Inn

We all know the story of Richard III apparently spending a night at the White Boar Inn in Leicester, on his way to his fate at Bosworth. We know of his bed, with its supposed hidden treasure, and that the inn prudently decided to rename itself the Blue Boar, to avoid Tudor wrath (of which…
How many English pubs are named after monarchs….?

Feb 10, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, humour

blue boar, Bury, Gloucester, Henry VII, Henry VIII, JD Wetherspoon, John Earl of Oxford, Leicester, Lord High Constable, Malton, Middleham, monarchs, pubs, Richard II, Richard III, Scarborough, Shrewsbury, Victoria, white boar, white hart

Well, obviously a lot of our pubs bear the names of kings and queens, with Queen Victoria heading the list above. I’m surprised to find Kings George III, George IV and William IV galloping up behind her, while all the rest are far more thinly spread. Why are these four monarchs, who all reigned…
Myths aren’t facts; least of all myths about Richard III….

Nov 3, 2021

anniversaries, Book Reviews, buildings, religion

Bermondsey Abbey, Countess of Oxford, Edmund “Tudor”, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henrietta Leyser, Henry VII, house arrest, John Earl of Oxford, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, mediaeval women, Myths, plots, prisons, Richard III, sanctuary, Westminster Abbey, widows

Ricardians often bemoan the repeated myths about Richard’s wickedness and cruelty. And with good reason. In spite of the fact that he did what he could to better the lot of women, he is accused of bullying the poor old (treacherous) Countess of Oxford because she happened to be financing her Lancastrian son who was…
Now available …

Sep 27, 2021

anniversaries, battles, Music Reviews

albums, biographies, Calais, Edward of Lancaster, George Duke of Clarence, Jasper “Tudor”, John Duke of Somerset, John Earl of Oxford, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, Readeption, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury battlefield website, The Legendary Ten Seconds

… on the Tewkesbury battlefield website: Wars of the Roses music by the Legendary Ten Seconds. Here is more information about the group and their output so far.
THE SIX SISTERS OF WARWICK THE KINGMAKER

Apr 14, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

Alice Montacute, Alice Neville, Anne Fitzhugh, Arundel Castle, Ashby St Ledgers, Barnet, Cecily Neville the Younger, Cicely Bonville, Colne Priory, Despencers, Earl of Desmond, Eleanor Neville, Elizabeth Baynham, executions, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Lord Strange, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry Fitzhugh, Henry VII, impaling, Joan Neville, John Earl of Oxford, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Katherine Neville, Kirby Muxloe, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lady Margaret Neville, Margaret Wydeville, ODNB, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, St. george’s Chapel, St. James Garlickhythe, Tanfield Castle, Tewkesbury Abbey, The Coronation of Richard III: the Extant Documents, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lord Stanley, tomb effigies, Wakefield, William Bonville Lord Harrington, William Fitzalan, William Lord Hastings

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @ sparkypus.com Joan Neville and her husband William Fitzalan Earl of Arundel lie together to this day in their beautiful tomb in the chapel at Arundel Castle. Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury (d. 1460) and his wife Alice Montacute had 10 children, including two sons, Richard Earl of Warwick and John…