Marie Barnfield
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The Mysterious Affair at Stony Stratford
Agatha Christie, ambush, Angelo Cato, Annette Carson, Crowland Chronicle, Crowland Continuator, Domenico Mancini, Dr. John Argentine, Edward IV, Edward V, fishing, Grafton Regis, Great North Road, Henry of Buckingham, James Gairdner, John Speed, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, maps, Marie Barnfield, market days, Mid-Anglia Group, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Richard III, Richard III Society, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir Richard Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Stony Stratford, The Maligned King, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Watling Street, Weedon Bec, will of Edward IV, William Lord Hastings, WydevillesThis excellent blog post by Annette Carson, based on a presentation given to the Society’s Mid-Anglia Group, summarises the events of 29th-30th April 1483, as Edward V and Anthony Woodville (Earl Rivers), together with Sir Richard Grey and others, met the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham as the Great North Road and Watling Street converged.…
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Some of you will know that in the 1970s I wrote a trilogy about Cicely/Cecily, daughter of Edward IV. I called her Cicely back then, and have stuck with it, but now she is generally known as Cecily. She had been the third daughter, but on the death of her sister Mary, because second…
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The following article concerns information found in the thesis The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts, 2 Volumes, by Ralph Dominic Moffat, August 2010. See https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1430/1/Ralph_Moffat_PhD_2010.pdf The four extracts (A-D) below are attributed to Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmolean MS 856, fols 94r -104r : English narrative…
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They don’t like it up ’em?
“Princes”, Ann Wroe, Anne Neville, Annette Carson, Barrie Williams, Bertram Fields, bigamy, canon law, Charles Ross, denialists, dispensations, Domenico Mancini, Hicks, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Leicester Greyfriars, Marie Barnfield, Matthew Lewis, Philippa Langley, Polydore Vergil, Portugal, pre-contract, Reformation, Richard III, Soar, Thomas MoreIt seems that some of the denialists are becoming even more sensitive than before and dislike being called Cairo dwellers. One Michael Hicks acolyte went to the point of giving Matthew Lewis well-researched biography of Richard III a one-star review. Sadly for “Alex Brondarbit”, the introduction to his own latest book (below) by the Professor…
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So wrong he could be right?
Algernon Sidney, Algernon Swinburne, Anne Boleyn, annulments, Anthony Hoskins, Bishop Ridley, Catherine Carey, Catherine of Aragon, DNA analysis, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, execution, Genealogists’ Magazine, Henry Caret Lord Hunsdon, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII, Horace Round, Horatio Nelson, illegitimacy, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, Josiah Wedgwood, Lady Anne Somerset, Lady Antonia Fraser, Mail on Sunday, Marie Barnfield, Mary Boleyn, Mary I, Norman Baker, P.G. Wodehouse, Peter Hammond, Pole family, Princess Daisy, Queen Mother, Ralph Vaughan Williams, rebellions, Robert 2nd Earl of Essex, royal finance, Sabine Baring-Gould, Society of Genealogists, Vita Sackville-West, William Carey, William CowperThis article, by the former MP Norman Baker, appeared in the Mail on Sunday. Actually, the original version was much longer and referred to Elizabeth II as a descendant of Henry VIII. This is an egregious howler, surely, because all of his actual descendants died by 1603 (or the last day of 1602/3 in the…
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Busting yet another Cairo myth
bigamy, Bishops of Bath and Wells, Brittany, denialists, Earl of Desmond, Edward Hall, Edward IV, executions, Foedera, Francis Duke of Brittany, George Duke of Clarence, health, Henry VII, Hicks, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lord Chancellor, Lord Privy Seal, Marie Barnfield, Oliver King, Polydore Vergil, PreContract, Ralph Butler Baron Sudeley, Richard III, Robert Stillington, William CatesbyBishop Robert Stillington was imprisoned soon after Bosworth and died in captivity in 1491, definitely by 15 May. It is generally thought that this was a punishment for providing the copious evidence that convinced the Three Estates, in June 1483, of Edward IV’s bigamy. This rendered Elizabeth of York and all her siblings legally illegitimate,…
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Today in 1461, Lady Eleanor Talbot married Edward IV, either on her Warwickshire lands or in Norfolk. As Ashdown-Hill has shown, she was older than Edward, a widow, from a Lancastrian background and the ceremony took place in secret during the spring, five factors that also apply to Edward’s bigamous marriage almost three years later.…
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A Tale of Three Mistresses – Mangled by More
“Tudors”, Annette Carson, Armstrong, Arthur, bigamy, Blaybourne, Cecily Duchess of York, David Grummitt, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, George Buck, Henry VII, illegitimacy, John Earl, Kincaid, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, Mancini, Margaret FitzLewis, Margaret Lucy, Marie Barnfield, mediaeval canon law, mistresses, Ricardian, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Sir Lewis John, Sir Thomas Lumley, Sir William Lucy, Stephen Lark, Thomas More, usurpation, Waytes of Southampton, William Shore(from http://www.annettecarson.co.uk) Our primary source of gossip about Edward IV’s mistresses is attributable to the pen of Thomas More (1478–1535), knight and latterly saint. While writing about Richard III, More found space for a lengthy diversion into the career of ‘Mistress Shore’, perhaps Edward’s most notorious extra-marital concubine, about whose present and past conditions the…
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Richard and “Incest”
Affinity, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, canon law, Cecily Neville the Younger, Constanza of Castile, denialists, Edmund of Langley, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Warwick, Hicks, incest, Isabel of Castile, John of Gaunt, Marie Barnfield, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, sibling double marriagesIn BBC History, Richard III Special Edition, Professor Hicks returns to his theory that Richard III’s marriage to Anne Neville was incestuous because of the prior marriage of his brother, George Clarence, to Isabel Neville. I have to confess to surprise that a historian of Professor Hicks’ fame and academic stature is still chasing this…
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To avoid any confusion:
“Eleanor”, Affinity, Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, consanguinity, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Fourth Lateran Council, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Duke of Warwick, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Bedford, John of Gaunt, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Margaret Beauchamp, Marie Barnfield, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of WarwickWhen Edward IV married Lady Eleanor Talbot in spring 1461, they were not more closely related than fourth cousins, through her mother, Margaret Beauchamp (see Eleanor, fig.11). Under the rules of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 (p.112), such distant blood relations were permitted to marry without a dispensation. It no longer amounted to consanguinity.…
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