Legitimacy
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THE THREE HUNDRED YEARS WAR – PART 2: the just cause
Angevin Empire, Aquitaine, Capetians, Charles IV, Chris Given-Wilson, Cinque Ports, Crecy, david II, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Henry III, Henry of Lancaster, Ian Mortimer, Isabelle de France, John II, John the Posthumous, Jonathan Sumption, Kathryn Warner, Legitimacy, Louis IX, Louis X, Ludwig IV, Phillip III, Phillip IV, Phillip V, piracy, Poitiers, Roger Mortimer, Saint-Sardos, Scotland, Treaty of Bretigny, Treaty of Paris, Valois, WalesPreface This is the second of three articles charting the course of continual Anglo-French conflict from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. In the first article, I wrote about the rise and fall of the Angevin Empire, culminating in the Treaty of Paris (1259). This article picks up my narrative after the death of…
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The Tudors were past masters with propaganda, and there just wasn’t much of it being used against them. So how about we expunge them from history? How about we produce proof that Richard III was the victor at Bosworth….? Good idea, I think! You saw it here first, folks – and just to make sure…
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Yet again, I tell you the old story of looking for one thing and happening on something else. This time an article that questions the ultimate effectiveness of Henry VII’s reign. Well, rather it raises questions that historians don’t seem to have asked before now. It is well worth reading, especially as there are links to other…
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A truncated reign and a truncated monarch
“Perkin”, “Tudor” genealogy, Acts of Succession, Archbishop Cranmer, BBC, coups d’etat, Dukedom of Clarence, Earl of Leicester, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Framlingham Castle, France, Greys, Helen Castor, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Lord Darnley, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John of Gloucester, Kenninghall, Kirk o’Fields, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Margaret Clifford, Lady Margaret Douglas, Lady Mary Grey, Legitimacy, Leicestershire, letters patent, Lord Guildford Dudley, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Paul Delaroche, Phillip II, portraits, Scotland, Sion, Spain, Stewarts, Streatham portrait, Tower Green, Tower of London, Wyatt Rebellion, WydevillesRight at the start of this series, Helen Castor (left) takes a black marker pen and illustrates the cause of the 1553 crisis on a large sheet of paper. Beginning with Henry VII, very few of his legitimate male descendants were alive at the start of that year – eliminating the obvious illegitimate cases, we…
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More Royal marital irregularity
anniversaries, Avignon popes, Blackfriars, David Duke of Rothesay, david II, dispensations, Edward III, Edward IV, Elizabeth Mure, Euphemia Ross, executions, Falkland Palace, Guardian of Scotland, Henry V, Henry VII, House of Stewart, James I, James II, James IV, Jean Stewart, Joan “Beaufort”, Joan of the Tower, Legitimacy, Margaret “Tudor”, Margaret Drummond, mediaeval canon law, Murdoch Duke of Albany, Neville’s Cross, Paisley Abbey, Perth, Queen Mother, Robert Duke of Albany, Robert II, Robert III, royal marriages, Scotland, siege of Berwick, Sir John Lyon, torture, Tower of London, Treaty of Berwick, Walter Earl of AthollEdward IV was not the only British late mediaeval king to play fast and loose with canon law. The other case dates from a century and a quarter before 8 June 1461 and had consequences for that king’s heirs; in particular his grandson: Today in 1337, a first son, John, was born to Sir Robert…
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Just in case anyone is still misled by Hicks, here is the reply from today’s Times, written by the experts where DNA analysis was devised: “Richard’s skeleton Sir, Professor Hicks, in his letter [Dec 5] commenting on our research findings, suggests that the skeleton found in Leicester is not that of Richard III. He states…
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When Richard II and John of Gaunt decided (in view of the latter’s rather belated marriage to Katherine Swynford) that the Beauforts should be legitimated, they did two things. First they obtained a dispensation from the Pope removing any impediments to the Gaunt-Swynford marriage and legitimating the Beauforts. For example, the fact that Gaunt had…
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