Lady Elizabeth Talbot
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THE MYSTERY OF HENRY GREY, DUKE OF SUFFOLK’S HEAD
“Princes”, Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Anne Mowbray, coronations, Edward VI, executions, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, Lady Elizabeth Grey, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Mary Grey, lords protector, Minories, mouat, National Portrait Gallery, Poor Clare’s convent, rebellions, Richard of Shrewsbury, severed heads, Sir George Scharf, Sir Thomas Wyatt, st botolph aldgateHenry Grey was the father of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days’ Queen. A great grandson of Elizabeth Woodville, through her son , Thomas, from her first marriage to Sir John Grey, he married Frances Brandon, daughter Henry VIII’s sister, Mary, so their children, three girls named Jane, Katherine and Mary, had a…
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After he became King, Richard III leased the Manor of Chelsea to the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk for a red rose given each Midsummer. The Dowager Duchess was Elizabeth Talbot, the sister of Eleanor Talbot, Edward IV‘s secret wife. Elizabeth (and Eleanor) were also full 1st cousins to Richard’s wife, Anne Neville. Elizabeth, who had…
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Well, we’ve all heard of the “Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare without Aldgate known also variously as the ‘Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aldgate’ or the ‘House of Minoresses of the Order of St Clare of the Grace of the Blessed Virgin Mary’ or the ‘Minoresses without Aldgate’ or ‘St Clare outside Aldgate’…
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ELIZABETH TALBOT, VISCOUNTESS LISLE, LADY ELEANOR BUTLER’S NIECE
Berlin Museums, bigamy, Cecily Bonville, Charles the Bold, Edward Grey Lord Lisle, Edward IV, Elizabeth Viscountess Lisle, Flanders, Gustav Waagen, jewellery, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Long Melford Church, Margaret of Burgundy, Olivier de la Marche, Second Battle of St. Albans, Sir John Grey of Groby, St. Mary’s Church Astley, tomb effigies, W.E. Hampton, WarwickshireReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Possible portrait of Elizabeth Talbot, Viscountess Lisle c1468 Petrus Christus of Bruge Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Note the gleam of the pearls, the pattern of the brocade gown and the little gold pin used for pinning the fine lawn partlet onto the bodice. How delicious! Could this charming portrait be of Elizabeth…
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Edward IV, Dame Eleanor and the Phantom Web of Impediments
Affinity, Anne Mowbray, Calendar of Papal Register, Catholic Encyclopedia, Cheshire, common stock, consanguinity, consanguinity test, denialists, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fourth Lateran Council, Gregory I, Hicks, impediments, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Maude Furnivall, mediaeval canon law, pre-contract, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sir John Grey of Groby, Sir Thomas Butler, St. AugustineIntroduction The precontract (i.e. prior marriage) between Edward IV and Eleanor Butler, née Talbot, has long been a subject of debate, but what has not previously been claimed is that Edward and Eleanor were so closely related as to have been unable to make a valid marriage without a special dispensation from the Pope. Recently,…
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Talbot Country
“Lambert Simnel”, Alton Towers, Battle of Bosworth, Bess of Hardwick, bigamy, Bridgnorth, Castillon, destruction of records, Duchess of Norfolk, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edward Grey Lord Lisle, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Wydeville, evidence, executions, Fotheringhay, France, funicular railways, George Duke of Clarence, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VI, Henry VII, heraldic symbols, Hex, house arrest, House of York, Hundred Years War, illegitimacy, Jeanne d’Arc, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Lord Protector of the Realm, Margaret d’Anjou, Mary Stuart, memorials, Pontefract, pre-contract, pubs, Ralph Shaa, Richard III, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Shropshire, Simon Stallworth, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Staffordshire, Talbot hound, Talbot Monument, Talbots, The Shrewsbury Book, Titulus Regius, Tutbury castle, Wingfield ManorThere is a pub in Bridgnorth, near where I live. Well, let’s be honest, there’s about a hundred. If you have ever been to Bridgnorth, aside from the Severn Valley Railway, the funicular railway from Low Town to High Town and the remains of the slighted castle, which lean at a greater angle than the…
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