Palm Sunday
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The Battle of Towton took place on the 29th of March1461 on an open field between the villages of Towton and Saxton in North Yorkshire on Palm Sunday. The battle took place during a snow storm and is believed to be the largest and bloodiest battle to be fought on English soil. The battle was…
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Ranulph Lord Dacre of Gilsland – The Lord who was buried with his horse.
All Saints Saxby, arrows, AW Boardman, burials, churches, Cicely Neville, Cumberland, Dacres of Gilsland, Edward IV, Eleanor Fitzhugh, Exhumation, Gascoignes, George Duke of Clarence, George Goodwin, Georgian era, horses, Isabel Neville, Lady Margaret Stafford, Lady Philippe Neville, Lancastrian commanders, Leicester, letters, Mortimer’s Cross, MPs, Palm Sunday, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Ranulph Lord Dacre, Richard III, Second Battle of St. Albans, Soar, Stoke Field, Towton, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses, WE HamptonReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com The monument in All Saints Church, Saxton over the grave of Ranulph Lord Dacre and his horse. Photo Mary Emma1@Flkir Ranulph/Ranulf/Randolph/Ralph, Lord Dacre of Gilsland’s precise date of birth is lost to us – as is his exact Christian name it would seem -but has been suggested as c.1412 although…
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A review of Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors….
“Tudors”, Anne of Bohemia, Anzac Day, Bayeux Tapestry, burials, Channel Five, Charles “III”, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles I, Charles II, Cheyneygates, Cicely Plantagenet, coronation chair, coronations, Crown of St. Edward, Dame Judi Dench, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duke of Norfolk, Easter, Elizabeth II, executions, gardens, Harold II, Hawksmoor Tower, Henry V, Henry VII Lady Chapel, Holy Week, Imperial State Crown, Lady Diana Spencer, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lent, Liber Regalis, Operation Golden Orb, Order of the Bath, Palm Sunday, Platinum Jubilee Roof, Poets’ Corner, Pyx Chamber, Queen Mother, records, Richard II, Royal Peculiars, Royal regalia, Shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir john Gielgud, Sir Ralph Scrope, St. Paul’s, State Opening of Parliament, Stone of Scone, Timothy West, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Tower of London, Viscount Welles, weddings, Westminster AbbeyI have now watched all of the Channel 5 series Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors, which is so packed with information that I hardly know where to begin with this review. Aha, did I hear you say the beginning might be a good idea? You’re right, so here goes with a selection of descriptions from…
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The English Medieval Cathedral
Association of English Cathedrals, Canterbury Cathedral, Cathedrals, Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Lichfield Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Palm Sunday, Peterborough Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, St. Edmund’s cathedral, Wakefield Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, Worcester CathedralDurham Cathedral in the moonlight.. Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com A familiar sight to both medieval royalty and commoners alike our Cathedrals soar above us, centuries old, constant, enduring, and kind of reassuring. There is nothing more thrilling as you approach a cathedral city than the first glimpse of their cathedral appearing on the horizon. So…
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Easter is here again, and in these modern times it is only too often thought of as a time of pretty bunnies, fluffy chicks, chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and the joys of spring. But in the past it was a very different occasion, for it was the most important time of the year…
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BLOOD OF ROSES (A Novella of Edward IV’s Victory at Towton)
Bloody Meadow, Castleford, Cock Beck, Croft Castle, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Flower of Craven, Henry VI, Hereford, Janet Reedman, Jasper “Tudor”, Joan “Beaufort”, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, London, Lord Clifford, Lord Fitzwalter, Margaret d’Anjou, Mortimer’s Cross, Orleans, Owain Tudor, Palm Sunday, parhelion, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Ricardian fiction, Richard Duke of York, Richard of Warwick, Second Battle of St. Albans, snowstorm, sunne in splendour, Towton, Towton Chapel, Wakefield, William Neville Lord Fauconberg, YorkshireRichard, Duke of York and his second son Edmund were killed at the battle of Wakefield at the bitter end of 1460. Within weeks, the Duke’s eldest son Edward was on the road with a mighty army, seeking revenge–and a crown. The novella BLOOD OF ROSES by J.P. Reedman covers the period from the Duke’s…
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An anonymous Yorkist supporter wrote an account describing Edward IV’s march through England in the spring of 1471, when he came to reclaim his throne from the Lancastrian Henry VI. On 7th April, Palm Sunday, Edward heard mass in the parish church at Daventry, and during the service a miracle occurred, witnessed by everyone present. At that…
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