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Plantagenets

THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY

Dec 2, 2016

buildings

Amesbury Abbey, Arthur Plantagenet, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Fontevrault, Henry II, Henry III, Hexham, Isabel of Lancaster, John, John de Warenne, John Lord Wenlock, Margaret lady Hungerford, Mary of Woodstock, Plantagenets, Reformation, Richard I, Richard III, Robert Baron hungerford, ruins, Stonehenge

The palatial 17thc mansion called Amesbury Abbey (now a private nursing home) stands in beautiful landscaped gardens near the curve of the Avon and on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage Landscape. The original monastic building from which it takes its name, the Fontrevraudine Priory of Amesbury, is long gone, a victim of Henry…
The Success of the Usurper by Barbara Gaskell Denvil

Jun 12, 2016

genealogy

“Tudors”, Anglo-Saxons, Bosworth, claims, France, Hastings, Henry VII, Lancastrians, mercenaries, Normans, Plantagenets, propaganda, St. Edward the Confessor, usurpers, William I, Witangemot

For some years I have set my novels in the last years of Plantagenet reign, or the first years of the Tudor dynasty. William the Conqueror Many authors of historical fiction prefer to set their books in the Georgian or Regency periods, but tor me the Plantagenet dynasty was one of the most interesting…
Lost in Southampton: Richard of Conisbrough

Dec 8, 2015

buildings, genealogy

Alice, Anne Curry, Anne Mortimer, Anthony Woodville, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Edward IV, Edward of Norwich, executions, Henry IV, Henry Scrope Baron Masham, Henry V, Isabel of Castile, John Holland, Maud Clifford, Plantagenets, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Richard III, Sir Thomas Grey, Southampton plot, St. Julien’s, T.B. Pugh, York

Richard of Conisbrough was Richard III’s grandfather on the paternal side. He is a shadowy figure, the last son of Edmund of Langley and his wife Isabella of Castile. Even his date of birth is uncertain, varying in different accounts by up to ten years. His father left him no inheritance, and there were rumours…
THE GIFFARD CHANTRY-MEDIEVAL PAINT AND EARLY PLANTAGENETS.

Sep 13, 2015

buildings

Alexander Giffard, Boroughbridge, Edward I, Giffard Chantry, Godfrey Giffard, Lady Margaret Neville, Piers Gaveston, Plantagenets, Pontefract, Seventh Crusade, St. Mary’s, Thomas Plantagenet, tombs, Walter Giffard, Wiltshire, windows

In the quiet village of Boyton in Wiltshire stands the Church of St Mary’s, known locally as ‘Blessed Mary of Boyton.’ Dating from the early 13th century it contains several unusual and startling features, including a medieval oven where priests baked the sacramental bread. It is probably most famous, however, for the chantry of the…

Plantagenets

THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY

The Success of the Usurper by Barbara Gaskell Denvil

Lost in Southampton: Richard of Conisbrough

THE GIFFARD CHANTRY-MEDIEVAL PAINT AND EARLY PLANTAGENETS.