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Richard of Gloucester as Lord of the North and the siege of Berwick 1482
Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Bamburgh, Berwick, borders, Brough, Brougham, Carlisle, Cecilia, Cecily Duchess of York, Coldingham, Council of the North, Croyland, Cumberland, Duke of Albany, Duke of Angus, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Hadrian’s Wall, Henry VII, James III, James IV, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord of the North, Middleham, Paston Letters, Penrith Castle, Ralph Neville, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sheriff Hutton, siege of Berwick, Sixtus IV, Thomas Lord StanleyOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having recently visited some of Richard’s holdings in the north of England such as Penrith Castle which he was given after the death of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick in 1471, I wanted to write a short piece about his role as Lord Warden of the West Marches and Sheriff of…
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A Time for Truth, a Time for Lies…or for Pretended Obliviousness and Bullying Tactics
Annette Carson, Bona of savoy, Commines, Constable of England, Countess of Shrewsbury, Croyland, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, fire, Frank Harris, Henry VI, homophobia, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Russell, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lion King, Lord Chancellor, Lord Protector of the Realm, Mancini, Matt Lewis, mediaeval canon law, Medieval, Middleham, Oscar Wilde, Palace of Westminster, Parliament, petition to Richard III, pre-contract, PreContract, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Three Estates, Titulus RegiusMy thanks to everyone at Murrey & Blue who helped with this article. It was very much a team effort, and you know who you are. An Elizabethan Professor Introduced Me to Richard A long time ago, at a university far away, I took a class on medieval history from a professor who thought Elizabeth…
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http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/home.html The above site is a wonderful resource for just about every medieval defensive building in the land. It really does cover everything, with an accompanying photograph of the site wherever possible. It covers them all by the county, even to a comprehensive list of Licences to Crenellate – the when, where and who of each one. There are maps…
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There is an article by Kelly Fitzgerald at http://sunnesandroses.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-sunne-in-splendour-part-2.html, concerning the three suns that were seen in the sky before the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross in 1460. It was a natural phenomenon—a parhelion—but was clearly not recognised as such by those who saw it. They believed it was an omen. So, what about supernatural phenomena…
