John Strype

SIR PAUL PINDAR c.1565-1650. AND HIS HOUSE IN BISHOPSGATE

Jun 24, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

ambassadors, Bishopsgate, Constantinople, Half Moon Street, Italian banking system, James VI, John Strype, Liverpool Street Station, London, Northamptonshire, Old St. Paul’s, Ottoman Empire, Sir Paul Pyndar, taverns, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wellingborough

Reposted from A Medieval Potpourri@sparkypus.com The façade of Sir Paul Pindar’s house in Bishopgate. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Photo Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Sir Paul Pindar acquired the site in what was then known as Bishopsgate Street Without in 1597 and begun building the house, later known as Pindar’s House, shortly afterward…
L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Oct 17, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, travel

Anne Neville, Barnet, Checkers Yard, Coldharbour, Crowland Chronicle, Dowgate Hill, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Great Fire of London, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry VIII, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Strype, Kingsford, l’Erber, London, Margaret of Salisbury, Nevilles, past maps, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Reformation, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard III Society, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, River Thames, sanctuary, Sir Francis Drake, St. Martin’s, Stow’s Survey, Thames Street, Tower of London, Visscher Panorama of London, Wars of the Roses, Warwick Lane, William Latimer

My latest A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com post London before the Great Fire and much as Richard Neville ‘The Kingmaker’ and his family would have known it… L’Erber stood slightly to the north west of Coldharbour which is the large house seen here in middle of the picture and facing the Thames. No depiction of L’Erber…
The great house Richard III granted to John Howard….

Apr 4, 2019

buildings

Cannon Street, Edward III, Froissart, Great Fire of London, Joan of Kent, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Strype, London, maps, Peasants’ Revolt, Phillippa of Hainault, Richard III, Smithfield, Stow, The London Encyclopedia, Tower Royal

There was once a royal house, sometimes referred to as a palace, in the street named The Riole in London’s Vintry Ward, and Richard III granted it to his good friend and ally, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk. The great house was called the Tower Royal, and, like so much of medieval London, it…
Another posthumously mobile Bishop?

Sep 5, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

Bishops, Copford, de heretico comburendo, Ecclesiastica Memoria, Edmund Bonner, illegitimacy, John Strype, ladybird, Marshalsea Prison, Mary I, Norfolk dialect, Reginald Cardinal Pole, secret burials, Southwark, Stephen Gardiner, tombs

We do know that Edmund Bonner , born in Worcestershire in about 1500, died in the Marshalsea Prison, today in 1569 and was buried secretly in St. George’s, Southwark. Rather like the head of Cardinal Morton, however, we cannot be certain that he remains there. As Bishop of London under Mary I, he (along with Cardinal…
Thomas Stafford – his execution clarified

Jan 28, 2014

buildings, sources

“Tudor” justice, executions, John Strype, Scarborough, Thomas Stafford, Tower Hill

Thomas Stafford – a new source (by Stephen Lark) When I composed a Bulletin article about Thomas Stafford in 2005, I knew a few things about him – his descent from George of Clarence and Henry of Buckingham whilst not being the senior descendant of either – but some things were not known. There…

John Strype

SIR PAUL PINDAR c.1565-1650. AND HIS HOUSE IN BISHOPSGATE

L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

The great house Richard III granted to John Howard….

Another posthumously mobile Bishop?

Thomas Stafford – his execution clarified