Keeper of the Privy Seal
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Bishop Stillington’s Testimony: Was it Enough under Church Law?
Angelo Cato, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Charles V, denialists, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Eustace Chapuys, evidence, executions, fidedignus, Gregory IX, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, Jacquette, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, parish registers, Phillippe de Commynes, pre-contract, probatio plena, qualified witnesses, R.H. Helmholz, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, sorcery, Susan Troxell, Thomas Cromwell, Titulus Regius, two-witness rule
Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Richard III remains one of the most controversial kings of England because of the manner in which he came to the throne:? not by battle or conquest, but by a legal claim that Edward IV’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was invalid, rendering their children ineligible to stand in the line…
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A Time for Truth, a Time for Lies…or for Pretended Obliviousness and Bullying Tactics
Annette Carson, Bona of savoy, Commines, Constable of England, Countess of Shrewsbury, Croyland, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, fire, Frank Harris, Henry VI, homophobia, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Russell, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lion King, Lord Chancellor, Lord Protector of the Realm, Mancini, Matt Lewis, mediaeval canon law, Medieval, Middleham, Oscar Wilde, Palace of Westminster, Parliament, petition to Richard III, pre-contract, PreContract, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Three Estates, Titulus RegiusMy thanks to everyone at Murrey & Blue who helped with this article. It was very much a team effort, and you know who you are. An Elizabethan Professor Introduced Me to Richard A long time ago, at a university far away, I took a class on medieval history from a professor who thought Elizabeth…