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King’s Lodgings

Harbingers

Jun 22, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry, law

Anne of Bohemia, harbingers, Henry IV, King’s Lodgings, livery colours, Lollards, Owain Glyndwr, Pilleth, Richard II, Sir Robert Whitney, Sir Thomas Clanvowe, Welsh Marches

We still use the word ‘harbinger’ in constructions like ‘This was the harbinger of war.’ Meaning that something gives a warning or prediction. In the Middle Ages, a harbinger was a man who travelled ahead of the royal (or a noble) household to warn that they were coming. Well, if you had 600-1000 assorted people…
Spot the deliberate mistakes?

Mar 30, 2019

anniversaries, art, religion

Archbishop of Canterbury, books, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Garden Tower, Henry of Buckingham, John Ashdown-Hill, John Zephaniah Bell, King’s Lodgings, paintings, Richard of Shrewsbury, sanctuary, Sir Richard Grey, Stony Stratford, Thomas Cardinal Bourchier, Westminster Abbey

An article in British History Online , as illustrated by this John Zephaniah Bell painting says: “Here [Westminster Abbey/Sanctuary/Cheyneygates] the unhappy queen [Elizabeth Woodville] was induced by the Duke of Buckingham and the Archbishop of York to surrender her little son, Edward V., to his uncle Richard, who carried him to the Tower, where the two…