Ludford Bridge

The Battles of the Wars of the Roses

Mar 28, 2016

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battles, Bosworth, Henry VI, Henry VII, Ludford Bridge, Ludlow, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Stoke Field, Towton, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses was a prolonged period of civil unrest in England, focussed on a period of just over thirty years which saw seventeen battles between rivals, the initiative swinging swiftly between the sides and the crown changing hands four times as a direct result of battles won and lost. One of the…
Sir Thomas Vaughan (executed 1483)

Nov 22, 2015

buildings, travel

Edward IV, Edward V, Ludford Bridge, monmouth, Richard III, St. Albans, Vaughan, Wales, Westminster Abbey

If you try to research Sir Thomas Vaughan on the internet you may become quite confused. Some sites suggest he was of the Tretower branch of the Vaughans. Highly unlikely, you might think, given that that family were strong Ricardian Yorkists. Others link him with the Vaughan family of Hergest Court. There were of course…
12 surprising facts about the Wars of the Roses

Oct 11, 2015

battles

1475 invasion of France, Anne of Exeter, Bamburgh, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Blore Heath, Burgundy, Caister Castle, Calais, cannon, Cecily Duchess of York, Earl of Ormond, Earl of Oxford, Edward of Lancaster, executions, Francesco Coppini, Francesco Sforza, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Gregory, Hammes, Hedgeley Moor, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hexham, Hornby Castle, Jack Cade, John of Gaunt, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Lancastrians, legates, Lionel of Antwerp, Lord High Constable, Ludford Bridge, Ludlow, Margaret of Anjou, Matt Lewis, Mortimer’s Cross, Mortimers, Nibley Green, Pius II, private battles, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, Roxburgh, Sandal Castle, Sir Andrew Trollope, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Sir John Fortescu, Sir Ralph Grey, Sir William Stanley, St. Albans, St. michael’s Mount, Stoke Field, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle, Tower Hill, Towton, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses, William Lord Berkeley, Windsor

Thanks to Matt Lewis: http://www.historyextra.com/article/military-history/12-facts-wars-roses?utm_source=Facebook+referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly
Murrey and Blue: New Livery Colors for a New Regime?

Jan 3, 2015

battles, genealogy, The play’s the thing

Edmund Duke of York, fetterlock and falcon, Henry IV, Henry V, heraldry, Ireland, John of Gaunt, Lord of Ireland, Ludford Bridge, murrey and blue, Richard Duke of York, Yorkist colours

Did the House of York, founded by Edmund of Langley, first duke of York, have distinctive livery colors? Perhaps this is an unusual question to ask, because I’ve always been under the impression that those colors were murrey and blue. In their text Heraldry, published in 1993, Rouge Croix Pursuivant Henry Bedingfeld and Lancaster Herald…

Ludford Bridge

The Battles of the Wars of the Roses

Sir Thomas Vaughan (executed 1483)

12 surprising facts about the Wars of the Roses

Murrey and Blue: New Livery Colors for a New Regime?