non-consummation

How Edward IV’s bigamy should have been resolved

Jul 17, 2023

Alternative History, anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion

Affinity, banns, bigamy, canon law, Castillon, Catherine de Roet, Catholicism, Church of England, consanguinity, Council of Trent, dispensations, Elizabeth Wydeville, family law, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, infertility, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John of Gaunt, lack of consent, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lumley-Conyers marriage, Moynihan barony, non-consummation, Papal Legate, pre-contract, R.H. Helmholz, Ralph Butler Baron Sudeley, Reformation, Sixtus IV, Statute of Merton, widows, witchcraft

Canon law, as practiced in most of Europe to the late mediaeval period, is noticeably different to the laws of the United Kingdom today, although it is somewhat looser today in several ways. Consequently, secret marriages were banned eventually, only first cousins now require dispensations and relationships do not beget affinity, although previous manages still…
Dear Catherine …,

Jun 25, 2023

anniversaries, art, buildings, heraldry, law, religion

“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, annulments, Arthur “Tudor”, bigamy, British Museum, Catherine of Aragon, executions, Henry VIII, jewellery, Julius II, Leviticus 18:16, marriages, Mary I, metal detecting, non-consummation, pendants, popes, Warwickshire

… Here is a little something to thank you for being married to me for so long because you definitely weren’t married to my brother, as the Pope confirmed. Sorry, for not being validly married to me because you were really married to my brother, as I decided, despite you giving birth to my first…
Lady Mary Howard married the bastard son of Henry VIII….

Nov 25, 2022

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

“Tudors”, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Arthur “Tudor”, Bess Holland, Countess of Nottingham, Devonshire Manuscript, Duchess of Richmond, Duchess of Somerset, Edward VI, Eric Ives, Exhumation, Henry Fitzroy, Howards, illegitimate children, John Foxe, Kenninghall, Lady Mary Howard, Lissa Bryan, Mary I, non-consummation, Reigate Castle, royal marriages, St. Michael’s Church Framlingham, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Victorians

I found the article below at this site where the numerous posts are Tudor-oriented (Henry VIII), but very interesting and informative. The article is given in full to tempt you into visiting the site to read all the others:- “….On November 25th or 26th, 1533, Henry FitzRoy married Lady Mary Howard. “….Mary Howard…
Exchanged treasures at celebrations of Richard II’s second marriage….

Oct 27, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources

Anne of Bohemia, bears, Calais, Charles VI, Edward III, Forest of Ardres, France, Holy Trinity, nef, non-consummation, peace treaties, rainfall, Richard II, royal marriages, St. George, St. Michael, tents, tigers

In October 1396 King Richard II of England married for the second time. His first marriage had been a love match. He and Anne of Bohemia had adored each other and he’d been devastated by her sudden death, possibly of the plague. He was still only 28, a childless widower, and like his namesake the…
Anne of Cleves’ House

Sep 22, 2022

anniversaries, art, buildings, law, religion

Anne of Cleves, Anne of Cleves’ House, annulments, Archbishop Cranmer, car homes, Chelsea Old Manor, Greenwich Palace, Hans Holbein, Haverhill, Henry VIII, Jedburgh, John Ashdown-Hill, london overspill towns, Mary Queen of Scots’ House, non-consummation, physiotherapists, Rochester Abbey, Royal Marriage Secrets, Suffolk, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Hardy

Here it is, the house in Haverhill that the “sister” of Henry VIII lived in for a few years, as part of their non-consummation annulment settlement, only six months after the “marriage” in Greenwich to follow a betrothal at Rochester. She outlived Henry, Holbein who painted her, Cromwell who arranged the wedding, Cranmer who presided…
There’s a dentist in … Hertfordshire

Apr 24, 2020

buildings, law, religion

Barron Knights, Bishop of London, dentists, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lambert, Hertfordshire, Hinxworth Church, John Ashdown-Hill, non-consummation, Richard III, St. Albans, The Private Life of Edward IV, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lynom, William Lord Hastings, William Shore

{with apologies to the Barron Knights} Back in August of last year I drove over to a dental practice in St Albans for my annual check-up. Yes, it is a long way from where I live in Yoxford but the dentist and I go back a long way. I have actually been his patient since…

non-consummation

How Edward IV’s bigamy should have been resolved

Dear Catherine …,

Lady Mary Howard married the bastard son of Henry VIII….

Exchanged treasures at celebrations of Richard II’s second marriage….

Anne of Cleves’ House

There’s a dentist in … Hertfordshire