Portugal

A guest post by Iris

Jul 17, 2015

Uncategorized

“Tudor” “sources”, Anne Neville, Crowland, Edward IV, Edward of Middleham, Elizabeth of York, executions, grief, Mercers’ Company, Nottingham, Portugal, Richard III, St. John’s Hospital, Towton

Re: “Richard the Mourner”: I tend to agree with layers of unsubstantiated myth building century after century, including Richard’s butchering his way to the crown (4 executions against over 20.000 dead on the field only at Towton to put his brother Edward on the throne, indeed a pale imitation of a larger than life example…
On the preservation of sources beyond our shores

Jun 8, 2015

sources

Anne Sutton, Barrie Williams, Burgundy, Calais, denialists, George Duke of Clarence, Human Shredder, Ireland, Jehan de Wavrin, Joanna, John Ashdown-Hill, Mountjoy, Portugal, Richard III, Robert Morton, Robert Stillington, Vergil

Our post on Thursday (https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-book-kendall-could-write-today-4-two-little-boys/) showed that Jehan de Wavrin’s comments on the relative sizes of George and Richard in 1461 are available to us because Wavrin’s “Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne” (p.357) was composed in Burgundy. It was, therefore, beyond the reach of the “Tudor” agent known as the…
We like to answer our readers’ queries …

Feb 28, 2015

genealogy

“Beauforts”, “Tudors”, Anne Mortimer, Anne Neville, Barons Bergavenny, Constance of York, de la Pole, DNA evidence, Earl of Kent, Earls of Essex, Edward III, Isobel of York, Portugal, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard III, Staffords

On Thursday, someone enquired: “Who had a better claim to the throne than Henry VII”? The short answer (excluding the right by conquest): almost anyone. Conventionally, his mother was descended from Edward III through the Beaufort line, but they were only legitimised “excepta dignitate regali”. However, the balance of evidence suggests that his parents were…
“There was I, waiting at the church …….”

Oct 15, 2014

battles

Arthur “Tudor”, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of StokeStoke, Bermondsey Abbey, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VII, Joanna, Joao II, Manuel, Portugal, Portuguese archives, Rennes Cathedral, Richard III, Vesta Victoria

“There was I, waiting at the church, Waiting at the church, waiting at the church; When I found he’d left me in the lurch. Lor, how it did upset me! All at once, he sent me round a note Here’s the very note, this is what he wrote: “Can’t get away to marry you today,…

Portugal

A guest post by Iris

On the preservation of sources beyond our shores

We like to answer our readers’ queries …

“There was I, waiting at the church …….”