Medieval Free Company

The peculiar mystery of the d’Aubrichecourt brothers….

Sep 29, 2024

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, religion

abduction, Anthony Goodman, Barbara Tuchman, Bridport, chastity, d’aubrichet brothers, dower lands, Earls of Kent, Edward the Black Prince, Elizabeth de Juliers, Epiphany Rising, evidence, executions, Froissart, Gascony, Henry IV, marauding, Medieval Free Company, Michaelmas, Normandy, Order of the Garter, Penny Lawne, Phillippa of Hainault, Poitiers, Prince Philip, richard barber, Richard II, sir john hawkwood, Thomas Holand, Treaty of Bretigny, usurpation, waverley abbey

I have written articles on this blog about the disgraceful way many 14th-century knights abducted women and married them by force. These men’s prey were usually widows with attractive fortunes that could provide their callous bridegrooms with the comfortable later life said scoundrels hadn’t bothered to prepare for during their careers (often as soldiers). Even…
The Medieval Free Company (by the Legendary Ten Seconds)

Aug 31, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, Music Reviews

archery, Buckland Abbey, Devon, Medieval Free Company, re-enactors, The Acoustic Alphabet, The Legendary Ten Seconds, Wars of the Roses

THE MEDIEVAL FREE COMPANY AT BUCKLAND ABBEY AUGUST 2015 On a Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August 2015, I visited Buckland Abbey near Plymouth where a Wars of the Roses re-enactment group who call themselves The Medieval Free Company had set up their encampment. Buckland Abbey is a National Trust property which was founded by Cistercian…

Medieval Free Company

The peculiar mystery of the d’Aubrichecourt brothers….

The Medieval Free Company (by the Legendary Ten Seconds)