Mary Wydeville
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Legends about tunnels leading to and fro churches and abbeys are rife throughout the British Isles. However, there are very few such tunnels actually proven to exist. Most of them are, in fact, remains of cellars and store rooms. However, a recent discovery at Tintern Abbey in Wales had indeed discovered what definitely is a…
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Katherine Plantagenet, her burial in St James Garlickhithe.
Christian Steer, churches, commission of array, Elizabeth of York, George Lord Strange, Great Fire of London, Henry VII, illegitimate children, John of Gloucester, John Stow, Katherine Plantagenet, Mary Wydeville, Maud Herbert, Raglan Castle, Ricardian, Richard III, Richard Rothing, royal marriages, St. James Garlickhythe, sweating sickness, Thomas Benolt, Tintern Abbey, WE Hampton, widowers, William Herbert Earl of HuntingdonReblogged from here The Great Fire of London. The devastating conflagration that consumed so much of medieval London including St James Garlickhythe. Artist Lieve Verschuier This post will of necessity prove to be short there being a dearth of information on both Katherine and the pre-Fire St James Garlickhythe Church where she was buried. The church…
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Anne Herbert Countess of Pembroke, Yorkist widow & mother in law to Katherine Plantagenet
Anne Devereux, Azincourt, Dafydd Gam, Earl of Northumberland, Earls of Pembroke, Edgecote Moor, executions, France, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, John Lydgate, Katherine Plantagenet, Mary Wydeville, Maud Herbert, ODNB, Raglan Castle, Ralph Griffiths, Richard Duke of York, Sir Richard Herbert, St. James Garlickhythe, T.B. Pugh, Tintern Abbey, Troy Book, Wars of the Roses, widows, William Herbert Earl of PembrokeReblogged from sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri Anne Devereux, John Lydgate’s Troy Book and Siege of Thebes @British Library Well that old wheel of fortune could certainly whizz around and no more so than in the lives of the noble women from the turbulent times we now know as the Wars of the Roses. An example…
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