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Nicholas Cantilupe

Another nobleman shoving his firstborn son aside….?

Oct 2, 2024

anniversaries, genealogy, heraldry, law, religion, sources

annulments, Complete Peerage, disinheritance, Earls of Arundel, funeral effigy, Greasley Castle, illegitimacy, Isabel le Despenser, Joan de Cantilupe, murder, Nicholas Cantilupe, saints, St. Thomas Cantilupe, Tiphaine de Cantilupe

I confess that when I wrote the article The disgraceful second marriage of the unpleasant 3rd Earl of Arundel…. – murreyandblue, {21/9} I thought such marital chicanery was a one-off (Henry VIII excepted!) I certainly didn’t expect to happen upon another instance. This second example of heir-shuffling isn’t as easy to explain as Arundel’s, however,…
Another car park associated with Richard

Jun 5, 2021

archaeology, buildings, religion

car parks, Carmelites, Gloucester, John Knox, Nicholas Cantilupe, Richard III, Smithsonian, Whitefriars

This one is in his ducal city of Gloucester and covers the remains of the local Whitefriars, dating from about 1270, not long after the Carmelites arrived in England, but demolished nearly three centuries. It was discovered during the building of the King’s Quarter. There were four other priories in Gloucester and we wrote about…