Lady Margaret Beaufort
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Ralph, 9th Baron Scrope of Masham, was—through his Greystoke mother—the great-grandson of Joan Beaufort and therefore great-great-grandson of John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roët. This made him the great-great-great-grandson of Edward III. (For the path, follow the purple line in the following chart.) What this blood did not do was give him expectations. *…
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ST MARY’S CHURCH, FAIRFORD: ROYAL PORTRAITS
Arthur “Tudor”, Bere Regis, Catherine of Aragon, churches, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Betjeman, John Morton, John Tame, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary “Tudor”, Nikolaus Pevsner, Queen of Sheba, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Solomon, Thomas WolseySt Mary’s, Fairford, Gloucestershire. ‘A complete and perfect Perpendicular church’ and famous for it fine collection of medieval glass. Described in Betjeman’s Best British Churches as ‘a complete and perfect Perpendicular’ church(1) this beautiful wool church was rebuilt by John Tame, a wool merchant from Gloucester , in the late 15th Century to replace a…
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The great hall at Dartington Hall, near Totnes in Devon, is a magnificent example of 14th-century architecture, but there is a little oddity that not everyone will notice. It concerns the supporting figures on the corbels supporting the five-bay hammerbeam timber roof. The figures are angels holding the heraldic shields of the families that have…
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You would have had to have been locked a dark dungeon in the Tower not to have noticed that there is a new TV series out based on a Philippa Gregory bestseller. THE WHITE PRINCESS has hit the screens in the US (no dates for the UK this time; the BBC bailed after The White…
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CARDINAL JOHN MORTON’S TOMB CHAPEL OF LADY UNDERCROFT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
AF Pollard, Brecknock, Canterbury Cathedral, Cardinal, cenotaphs, Collyweston, Ely, Henry of Buckingham, heraldry, John Morton, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Latin, Leicester cathedral, Lord Chancellor, Morton’s Fork, portcullis, rebus, Richard III, Rose, Stonyhurst College, Thomas More, tombs, WE HamptonUpdated post @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/03/cardinal-john-mortons-tomb-in-the-chapel-of-lady-undercroft-canterbury-cathedral/ On Friday 13th June 1483 Cardinal Morton, along with others, was arrested at the Tower of London. It is well documented the role Morton played in the downfall of Richard lll. Morton was Richard’s arch enemy and his deviousness, cunning and powers of manipulation being well…
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Uncle Richard?
“Princes”, art, Battle of Bosworth, Cecily Neville, Charles II, Civil War, Danny Dyer, David Garrick, Earl of Northumberland, Elizabeth Tyrrell, Elizabeth Wydeville, Frances Wray, genealogy, George Neville, Gipping Chapel, Henry of Buckingham, Joan Haute, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John of Gaunt, Katherine Haute, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of Salisbury, Percies, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Richard Woodville, Robert Cecil, Shakespeare, Sir Henry Vane, Sir James Tyrrell, Stowmarket, Thomas Snellgrove, William Brandon, William Cecil
A long time ago, I posted a short article about one of my ancestors, Thomas Snellgrove, who was a portrait artist and painted an actor portraying Richard III. Here is the link. I have been researching my family history for over thirty years and it used to be a very slow and painstaking process. The…
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BERMONDSEY ABBEY AND ELIZABETH WYDEVILLE
“Lambert Simnel”, Arthur “Tudor”, Bermondsey Abbey, Catherine de Valois, Cheneygates, David Baldwin, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francois de Luxembourg, Henry V, Henry VII, James III, Lady Margaret Beaufort, London, marriage plans, Polydore Vergil, PreContract, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, sanctuary, Sauchieburn, Sheen, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Titulus RegiusUPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/01/bermondsey-abbey-and-elizabeth-wydevilles-retirement-there/ Elizabeth Wydeville, by an unknown artist, Royal Collection. If anyone today wandering around Bermondsey, South London, should find themselves in redeveloped Bermondsey Square they may be surprised to find that they are standing on the spot where once stood the quadrangle of the Abbey of Bermondsey, the…
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On a whim, I acquired a copy of The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, edited by Marion Glasscoe. It concerns the papers that were the proceedings of the Exeter Symposium IV: Dartington 1987. And the first of these papers concerns The Mystics and the Early English Printers, and is by George R. Keiser. I confess…
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What do Matilda and Margaret, Eleanor and Elizabeth, plus two Henrys, add up to…?
“Beauforts”, Antioch, Catherine de Roet, Crusades, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York, Fair Rosamund Clifford, Gerald of Wales, Henry I, Henry II, Henry VII, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Matilda, Raymond of Poitiers, Richard III, Robert of Gloucester, Shakespeare, Stephen, The Lion in Winter, Viscount Welles, YorkistsTo my mind, it adds up to two very similar situations that are two centuries apart. Let us begin in the 12th century. On his deathbed, Henry I of England named as his successor his only surviving child, his daughter, the Empress Matilda. He obliged the nobility to agree. They reneged, of course. A woman…
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