Lady Elizabeth Talbot
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The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate and the Ladies of the Minories
Agnes Countess of Pembroke, Aldgate, Anne Montgomery, Anne Mowbray, Blanche of Navarre, Dame Elizabeth Savage, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Edward IV, Eleanor Scrope, Elizabeth brackenbury, Elizabeth de Clare, Elizabeth de la Pole, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Plague, Henry VIII, Isabel of Wodstock, Jane Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Margaret Stafford, Mary Tyrrell, Minories, Mowbray estates, nuns, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Sir James TyrrellAnne Montgomery nee Darcy. One of the much respected Ladies of the Minories from the window of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Shakespeare said ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’. Following on from that if we may be allowed to say that the Wars of the Roses were…
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We always hear about the badges of medieval families, e.g. Richard III’s white boar, the Warwick bear and ragged staff, the Stafford knot, Richard II’s white hart and so on and so on, but what about the ladies? Maybe they didn’t ride into battle with the banners streaming (well, there were some notable exceptions, of…
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Eleanor again
attainder, bigamy, book review, Chapuys, cover-up, denialists, dental evidence, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, George Buck, George Duke of Clarence, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lancastrians, Norwich, paperbacks, pre-contract, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Titulus Regius, William CatesbyJohn Ashdown-Hill’s Eleanor, the Secret Queen was first published in 2009, detailing Lady Eleanor Talbot’s family and early life, the circumstances in which she married Edward IV, her similarities to his mistress Elizabeth Woodville (they were dark haired, older and widows of Lancastrian-inclined men), canon law and how it affected Edward’s relationships and children together…
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Before I go further, let me point out that this is not the chalice I refer to, merely how I think it could have looked. The real thing might have been encrusted with pearls and rubies. On December 13th, 2000, a gentleman named Adrian Fray posted an interesting item about a gold chalice that had…
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Lady Eleanor Butler (born Talbot) probably knew that she was dying. In the early months of 1468, she transferred the lands that were hers to transfer to her sister, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk. Where these lands came from is something of a mystery. John Ashdown-Hill has demonstrated that they were not dower lands, could not…
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Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, is a good height for a woman, but not tall – only her headdress make her seem so. As a recent widow, she is clad entirely in black, from head to foot, her furred gown made of the finest wool damask London mercers can supply. She is a handsome woman –…
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