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The Wandering Butler: John, 6th Earl of Ormond

Dec 14, 2022

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“Perkin”, Act of Resumption, Anne Boleyn, Anne Welles, Archbishop Talbot, attainders, bastardy, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Northampton, Burgundy, Butlers, Butlers of Desmond, Captain of Calais, Charles the Bold, Chief Butler of Ireland, Cockermouth Castle, consanguinity, County Kilkenny, Earls of Desmond, Earls of Ormond, Edmund MacRichard Butler, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Elizabeth of York, Ellice Barry, entail mail, First Battle of St. Albans, Guisnes, Henry of Buckingham, Ireland, Jerusalem, Joan Beauchamp, Joan Chaworth, justiciar of Ireland, Kilkenny Castle, Killone Abbey, languages, law studies, Lincoln’s Inn, Lord Grey of Codnor, Louis XI, Ludford Bridge, Margaret of Burgundy, marriages, Munster. Avice Stafford, naval fleet, nuns, ODNB, Peerage of Ireland, Piers Butler, Piltown, Portugal, Pronothary of Bourbon, Raghnailt, Readeption, Richard III, Rome, royal pensions, Sandwich, Scotland, Sir Edmund Mortimer, Sixtus IV, Statute of Kilkenny, Stephen Ellis, Tadhg King of Thomond, Thomas Earl of Desmond, Tipperary, Wars of the Roses, Waterford, Wydevilles

FAMILY BACKGROUND The Lancastrian leader who faced – or failed to face – Thomas, Earl of Desmond, at the Battle of Piltown in 1462 was the fourth of the five children born to James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond (otherwise known as the White Earl), and his countess Joan Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, Lord…
Baron Arundel took fifty-two new suits to sea in 1379….!

Jan 24, 2022

anniversaries, religion, Science

Archbishop Thomas Arundel, Brittany, drowning, executions, fops, Irish coast, John Lord Arundel, naval fleet, nuns, Richard Earl of Arundel, Southampton, suits, Thomas Walsingham

I have just read in Margaret Aston’s excellent biography of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor, that according to Walsingham (always a fount of truth, of course) when Sir John Arundel, 1st Baron Arundel, died at sea in December 1379, among his lost belongings “were fifty-two new suits”. This, it seems, led one…
Three of Richard’s ships taken over by Henry….?

Dec 25, 2021

anniversaries, battles, religion, travel

Christmas Day, Edward IV, Governor, Grace Dieu, Hampshire, Henry VII, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Marie of the Toure, naval fleet, Richard III, River Hamble, River Hook, Southampton, warships

Yet again, while searching for one thing I came upon another. A book called The Hamble River by H.W. Trinder, from which the above map is taken, seemed likely to contain the information I was seeking, i.e. Southampton and its immediate environs in the 14th century. Then, I read the following:- “….Receyved [probably to lay…
The truth about Sir John Arundel? Or more Walsingham malice….?

Dec 16, 2020

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, sources

Adam Usk, Chronica Maiora, convents, Duchy of Brittany, Froissart, Hampshire, John Arundell, naval fleet, nuns, propaganda, rape, Richard II, sacrilege, St. Albans Chronicle, Thomas Walsingham

Well now, are we to believe the horrific tale related at Medievalists.net? Or should we regard it as yet another malicious work of imagination from Thomas Walsingham. Let’s face it, Walsingham was venomous and untruthful to a fault. The nastiest type of tale-teller. Which leaves me disinclined to believe that Sir John Arundel was guilty…
Now Henry V’s great ship has been found in the Hamble…..

Oct 25, 2017

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Azincourt, Hamble, Harfleur, Henry V, Holighost, naval fleet, warships

“Historians and archaeologists have tentatively identified the location of one of medieval England’s greatest ships. “Detailed archival and aerial photographic research carried out by British maritime historian, Ian Friel, has pinpointed a 30 metre stretch of the River Hamble near Southampton as the final resting place of one of Henry V’s largest warships – the…
THE ANGLO SCOTTISH WAR 1480-82

Nov 30, 2016

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AJ Pollard, Alexander Stewart Duke of Albany, Anzio, Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus, Bamburgh, Berwick, Canon Alexander Leigh, Carlisle, Cecilia, Charles Ross, Charles the Bold, chevauchee, Cheviot Hill, Commines, Cora Scofield, Cordingham, Crowland, Dockray, Dumfries, Dunbar, E. Nesbit, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward Woodville, Froissart, George Buck, George Duke of Clarence, Hedgeley Moor, Henry VI, Hewitt, Hexham, Hicks, J.D. Mackie, James III, James IV, John Ashdown-Hill, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Kincaid, Lancastrians, Lauder, Leith, Lord Linton, Lord Scrope of Bolton, Louis XI, Margaret of Anjou, Margaret of Scotland, Marie of Guelders, Marquess of Montagu, Michael K Jones, Middleham, naval fleet, Neville’s Cross, Nevilles, Norham, Norman MacDougall, Nottingham, Otterburn, Paul Murray Kendall, peace treaties, pensions, Percies, Picquigny, Readeption, Reivers, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Lord Boyd, Roxburgh, Salerno, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sean Cunningham, Sheriff Hutton, siege of Edinburgh, Simon Payling, Sir Robert Plumpton, Sir Thomas Fulford, Stirling, Thomas Howard, Thomas Lord Stanley, Topcliffe, Towton, Treaty of Lincluden, York

Richard duke of Gloucester – The King’s Lieutenant in the North “And he governed those countries very wisely and justly in time of peace and war and preserved concord and amity between the Scots and English so much as he could. But the breaches between them could not so strongly be made up to…

naval fleet

The Wandering Butler: John, 6th Earl of Ormond

Baron Arundel took fifty-two new suits to sea in 1379….!

Three of Richard’s ships taken over by Henry….?

The truth about Sir John Arundel? Or more Walsingham malice….?

Now Henry V’s great ship has been found in the Hamble…..

THE ANGLO SCOTTISH WAR 1480-82