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Ten “forgotten” medieval serial killers….

Jul 13, 2024

buildings, law

chile, crime, Gilles de Rais, la quintrala, Merton College Oxford, murder maps, peter stumpf, werewolves

I came upon this article 10 Forgotten Serial Killers From The Middle Ages – Listverse (there are many such lists to be found) and was rather intrigued that not one of the ten appears to have come from the British Isles. I also noticed that the infamous Gilles de Rais doesn’t make it to the…
HENRY VII’S HATED HENCHMEN

Jan 28, 2018

anniversaries

advisers, Annette Carson, avarice, BBC History Magazine, Edmund Dudley, executions, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Henry Wyatt, Merton College Oxford, Richard Empson, Richard III, Scotland, Steven Gunn

Here is a link to an interesting article first published in the BBC History Magazine in October 2016. Written by Steven Gunn, a professor of early modern history at Merton College, Oxford, the article gives appraisals of five of the ‘upstart’ advisers who Henry came to rely upon and their varying fates. Professor Gunn, however,…