Leicester Greyfriars

Will they dig down for St Edmund, do you think….?

Nov 20, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology

Abbey Gardens, Bury St. Edmunds, dowsing, Leicester Greyfriars, Richard III, St. Edmund

Searching for historic remains seems to be the thing now. More than ever since Richard III. I hope that the work of the folk who went to the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds on International Dowsers Day will lead to another great discovery.
An American take on the “Princes” and the new scientific evidence

Nov 19, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science

“Princes”, Anne Mowbray, Church of England, Edward V, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leicester Greyfriars, mtDNA evidence, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal mysteries, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, urn, USA, Westminster Abbey

Here is an article from an American website about the “Princes” and John Ashdown-Hill’s work towards determining the identity of the bones in that urn, as detailed in his “The Mythology of the Princes in the Tower”. The article is rather good. It does fail to notice that Westminster Abbey is a Royal peculiar and…
THE PRIVY PURSE ACCOUNTS OF HENRY VII 1491 to 1505

Sep 5, 2018

anniversaries, humour, sources

“Perkin”, armour, birds, burials, dancing, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Excerpta Historica, executions, fair play, fashion, greyhounds, Henry VII, household accounts, jewellery, John Vandelft, Lambeth, Leicester Greyfriars, loans, music, parsimony, pets, pike wall, Privy Purse, Reynold Bray, Richard III, Sir Robert Clifford, Sir William Stanley, Syon

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-privy-purse-accounts-of-henry-vii-1491-to-1505-2/ Is there anyone else like me who enjoys a good nosy around someone’s privy purse accounts. They can tell us so much about that person. For example, Henry VII’s Privy Purse Accounts. From them we can glean, for example, how did Henry spend his time relaxing ,…
Original resting place for Richard III gains protected status….

Aug 25, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, Science

DCMS, excavations, Leicester Greyfriars, protected status, Richard III

Protected status! And about time too!
The remains of Henry I not found yet at reopened Reading Abbey….

Aug 5, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, genealogy

Henry I, Jane Austen, Leicester Greyfriars, Oscar Wilde, Philippa Langley, Reading Abbey, Richard III, Sir George Gilbert Scott

Reading Abbey is reopening, but without the remains of Henry I having been found. He’s there somewhere, having definitely been buried there after his “surfeit of lampreys”. Well, they found Richard in Leicester, so there’s still hope of locating Henry.
An obituary

May 26, 2018

archaeology, Events

BBC, East Anglian Daily Times, historians, John Ashdown-Hill, Leicester Greyfriars, mtDNA, obituaries, Powerpoint, research, Richard III

Here is the BBC’s official post about Dr. John Ashdown-Hill, who died last Friday. However, his permanent legacy includes these Powerpoint presentations, originally devised so that he can still educate you about Richard, his life, family and era when he first became unwell enough to do so in person. Alternatively, this is the East Anglian Daily…
KING RICHARD III’S EPITAPH

Feb 7, 2018

archaeology, buildings, sources

Buck, epitaph, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, Leicester Greyfriars, Richard III

A digital reconstruction of Richard’s tomb in Greyfriars with the epitaph. De Montfort University. A digital reconstruction of what Richard’s Tomb may have looked like with the epitaph De Montfort University The tomb for which Henry Tudor paid the sum of 10 pounds 1 shilling in 1495 A digital view of Greyfriars with Leicester Cathedral…