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Not a book to be taken seriously….

Feb 12, 2017

battles

“Beauforts”, “Tudors”, Anne Neville, books, Brittany, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, exiles, France, H.E. Lehmann, Henry Percy, Henry VII, illegitimacy, Jasper “Tudor”, loyalty, Northern England, Northumbria, Richard III, Scotland, Warwick Castle

Would you like a few sniggers and outright guffaws? Yes? Then I have just the book for you—Lives of England’s Monarchs by H. E. Lehman. I was searching for something specific, and for some reason Google took me first to page 182… “…Edward [IV] was a large man possessed of great leadership ability and personal…
History has a weird way of repeating itself….

Nov 5, 2014

genealogy

Anne Neville, Anne of Bohemia, Edward the Black Prince, Henry IV, Henry VII, John of Gaunt, Northern England, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III

Following on from the blog above, entitled More C17 coincidences, it occurred to me that there is another strange set of coincidences concerning Richard III (1452-1485), and his predecessor and namesake of the previous century, Richard II (1367-1400). And I do not only mean being killed and usurped. Both had a queen named Anne…