Margaret “Tudor”
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Oh dear, how very Henry VII. I’ve just read in this link that because the leek was the emblem of the Welsh, on one St David’s Day he presented a leek to his daughter. A real leek, that is, not one studded with precious stones. Talk about a cheap gift! I’m sure she was thrilled.…
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The following extract is from this article in the Daily Record :- “….Fortuitously for us, Henry VII killed Richard III (the king in the car park) who was discovered in Leicester. A nice piece of synergy, and the basis for a much bigger story of Scottish royal political dominance in Great Britain….” Well, it might…
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Only 500 years or so too late, Karma finally takes its toll of England’s Nero… Strangely, I found this amusing image on the very day I found out my oldest known relative was (according to Wikitree) related to old Henry ‘in the 29th degree’ via Henry’s sister Margaret “Tudor”. I admit I was inconsolable…
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Death bed of Richard Whittington…London 1442-1443. A link to an interesting article covering all things about the medieval bed including childbed, deathbed and much, much more …
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KEY TO THE CASTLE: LUMLEY CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS
Bamburgh Castle, Edward IV, Epiphany Rising, executions, George Lumley, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VII, hotels, John Earl of Somerset, John Lumley, Lumley Castle, Margaret “Tudor”, Pilgrimage of Grace, Richard III, Scottish campaign 1482, siege of Berwick, sieges, Sir Ralph Lumley, Thomas Lumley, Wars of the RosesRecently it hit the news that the key to Lumley Castle’s ancient banqueting hall had been returned after it was stolen during an event 40 years ago. Lumley Castle is currently a hotel (so another one to add to the list of interesting castles you can stay in!) and the family who lived there had…
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Elizabeth of York – her privy purse expenses
“Perkin”, Ann Wroe, Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Bermondsey Abbey, borrowing, burials, Catherine of York, childbirth, clothing, Edward IV, Edward of Middleham, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Food, Gravesend, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jasper “Tudor”, John Beaufort, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lady Verney, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary “Tudor”, medical care, mottoes, Nottingham, Nottingham Borough Records, ODNB, Privy Purse, records, Richard III, Rosemary Horrox, servants, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, St. John’s Friary, Tower of London, Vaux Passional, WappingUpdated post @ sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/elizabeth-of-york-her-privy-purse-expenses/ Henry Vll and his children in mourning for Elizabeth of York. An idealised presentation of Henry. His children , Margaret and Mary sitting in front of the fire while a young Henry weeps into his mother’s empty bed. From the Vaux Passional, a 15th century manuscript. And so…
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I love to stay at places with history. Especially medieval history. That is why I so love going to 14th-century Dartington Hall near Totnes in Devon. Now I have found somewhere else I’d like to go, although it’s in the opposite end of the country – Morpeth Castle in Northumberland. Well, the castle gatehouse, to…
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Versailles
Carlos II, confusion, Eustache Dauger, executions, fictionalisation, George Blagden, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Ian Mortimer, Inside Versailles, James IV, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kate Williams, Kathryn Warner, l’affaire des poisons, la Voisin, Louis XII, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Man in the Iron Mask, Margaret “Tudor”, Maria Theresa, Marie Louise d’ Orleans, Mary “Tudor”, poison, VersaillesThree series of this Canale Plus production, showing a charismatic Louis XIV (George Blagden) decreeing a new palace outside Paris, have now been shown in the UK and it seems that a fourth will not now be made. It has much in common with “The Tudors ” in that it has been enjoyable from a…
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