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The Greatest Knight and Richard III
Barons’ War, Battle of Newbury, Bruces, Cartmel Priory, Crusades, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II, Henry III, Isabel de Clare, John, jousting, Lincoln, Louis VII, Maud de Braose, Papal Legate, Pembroke Castle, Plantagenets, regent, Richard I, Richard III, sieges, Stephen, Stewarts, Templars, Temple Church, William Marshall, Worcester Cathedral, Young King Henry
I have previously posted about my family history connections with Richard III here and I have since found out more interesting links. One such is William Marshall. Called by some the greatest ever knight, he is one of my direct ancestors and also the direct ancestor of Richard III. William had an eventful life. He…
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Am I alone in always having imagined that John de la Pole’s wife, Margaret Fitzalan, Countess of Lincoln, was a woman of childbearing age? Somehow I just took it as read, and thus that their apparent lack of heirs was a nasty trick of nature. Chance caused me to check for more information about this daughter of…
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A wall painting at St Mary the Virgin church in Lakenheath which depicts King Edmund “November 20 is St Edmund’s Day, the feast day of the ‘last king of East Anglia’ and – some would say – England’s proper patron saint. But where do his bones lie? Trevor Heaton explores the twists and turns of…
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Eleanor of Aquitaine was the daughter of a provincial Duke in France. Twice she married Kings and had many children, although she outlived most of them and several grandchildren, living into her ninth decade, suffering annulment and internal exile. Two of her sons became King of England and, through John “Sansterre”, she is the ancestress of…
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THE MISSING PRINCES-LOOKING IN LINCOLNSHIRE & DEVON
“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Coldbridge, Devon, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Fotheringhay, Grimsby, Henry III, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John, John Evans, Lincolnshire, Mary Stuart, Old Sarum, Philippa Langley, Richard III, Robert More, Sandra heath wilson, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, windowsPhilippa Langley has recently been on the road with ‘The Missing Princes Project’ making inquiries in Lincolnshire as to any local legends or folklore (such stories can often hold a tiny grain of folk memory) relating to King Richard or the two boys. Interestingly, author Sandra Heath Wilson in her novels has the princes hidden…
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The ten worst Britons in history?
“Popish Plot”, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, avarice, BUF, censorship, Cnut, Culloden, de heretico comburendo, Eadric Streona, Edmund Ironside, executions, Henry II, History Extra, Hugh le Despenser, Jack the Ripper, Jacobites, John, murder, perjury, Reformation, Sir Oswald Mosley, Sir Richard Rich, Thomas Becket, Titus Oates, torture, treachery, Whitechapel murders, William Duke of CumberlandThis is a very entertaining and well-illustrated 2006 article, choosing one arch-villain for each century from the eleventh to the twentieth. The all-male list includes just one King but two Archbishops of Canterbury. So what do you think?
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According to Ian Mortimer in The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, in the fourteenth century the king’s two great seals were kept by different people; one by the chancellor for sealing Chancery documents, and the other by the treasurer for Exchequer documents. The seals were huge at 6 inches across, and the one for…
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MISTRESS OF THE MAZE—Rosamund Clifford, Lover of King Henry II
Annabel de Balliol, Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, books, Civil War, Edward IV, Everswell, Fair Rosamund Clifford, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Godstow, Henry II, Ida de Tosney, Jane Shore, John, Louis VIII, mazes, Mistress of the Maze, Old Sarum Well, Raymond of Poitiers, Rosamund’s Well, William Longspee, WoodstockJane Shore is one of the most famous royal mistresses and certainly the prime one of the 15th century. Arguably, however, the most famous royal mistress in medieval English history is the enigmatic Rosamund de Clifford, known as ‘Fair Rosamund’ or ‘Rose of the World.’ Like Jane, Rosamund seemed to have received a generally benign…
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ENGLAND’S MINORITY KINGS 1216-1483
Alice Perrers, Anne Curry, Annette Carson, books, Chrimes, codicil, David Carpenter, Edmund of Langley, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward the Black Prince, Edward V, Elizabeth Woodville, France, Great Council, Henry Chichele, Henry III, Henry V, Henry VI, Honorius II, Humphrey of Gloucester, John, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Bedford, John of Gaunt, John Russell, Lancastrians, Lord Guala, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis VIII, Magna Carta, minority kings, Parliamentary Roll, precedent, Privy Council, Ralph Griffiths, Regency, Richard II, Richard III, Roskell, Thomas of woodstock, William MarshallIntroduction This essay was prompted by a sentence in John Ashdown-Hill’s latest book ‘The Private Life of Edward IV’: “ According to English custom, as the senior living adult prince of the blood royal, the duke of Gloucester should have acted as Regent — or Lord Protector as the role was then known in England…
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