Ralph Holinshed

The rise and fall of Sir Thomas Molyneux’s Cuerdale Hall in Lancashire….

Feb 27, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, sources

british History Online, Colonel Ralph Assheton, Cuerdale Hoard, John of Gaunt, Lancashire, Radcot Bridge, Ralph Holinshed, Richard II, Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland, Sir thomas molyneux, thomas mortimer

My meanderings in the name of research sometimes turn up things that rather bemuse me. This time I was in hot pursuit of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Cuerdale, who was murdered rather nastily by Thomas Mortimer Thomas Mortimer at the Battle of Radcot Bridge on 19 December 1387. Molyneux had once been John of…
The UFOs of past centuries, miracles….or portents of doom….?

Dec 21, 2023

art, Events, Science, sources

Hans Glaser, Nuremberg, Ralph Holinshed, UFOs, woodcuts

I have used the above illustration as an example of the sorts of shapes that seemed to appear to humankind in centuries ago. According to the picture’s blurb here it is a “…Color enhancement of a 16th century woodcut called Nuremberg UFO by Hans Glaser. At sunrise on the April 14, 1561, the citizens of…
Sir Ralph Assheton. (The ‘Black Knight of Ashton’) Vice-Constable of England.

Jul 9, 2023

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Ashton Hall, Battle of Bosworth, Black Knight, Clayton Hall, Coronation, Edward IV, English Civil War, Etihad Stadium, Flodden, funeral brass, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Isabel Kirby, Jane Saville, Knight Marshal, knights banneret, Lieutenant of the Tower, Lord Byron, Margery Barton, Mary Byron, Middleton, Middleton Archers, Middleton Church, mothers, MPs, Ralph Holinshed, Richard III, Sheriff of Yorkshire, siege of Berwick, Sir Ralph Assheton, trams, Vice-Constable

There is some confusion about the parentage of Sir Ralph Assheton. At least, various internet sources give him alternative mothers. His father was Sir John Assheton of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. The family’s main residence was Ashton Hall, although this building was sadly destroyed in the 1890s to make way for a coal yard. The medieval parish…
KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Apr 6, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, The play’s the thing

AA Milne, Angevin bloodline, Anglicanism, annulment, Arthur of Brittany, Ascension Day, authorship, avarice, Barons, burials, Cardinal Pandulph, character, charles forker, clergymen, Crowland Chronicle, Defender of the Faith, Earls of Essex, Edward Hall, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Eucharist, excommunication, Fauconbridge brothers, Geoffrey Plantagenet, George Peel, graham Seel, Henry, Henry the Young King, Henry VIII, Historiography, House of York, Hubert de Bergh, Innocent III, John, john Bale, John Dover-Wilson, John Gillingham, John Harvey, John Matusiak, John Wycliffe, Kit Marlowe, Lackland, Louis VIII, Magna Carta, male primogeniture, Mary I, Maude Plantagenet, Mirabeau, morality plays, Phillip Augustus, plays, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, recusants, Reformation, Richard Green, Richard Hunne, Richard I, Robin Hood, royal burials, sir brian vickers, Sir James Holt, Six Articles, Softsword, Staffords, stephen langton, Stuarts, Tillyard, Walt Disney, Wilfred Warren, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, Worcester Cathedral

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came across him, When walking in the town, Gave him a supercilious stare, Or passed with noses in the air, And…
GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT

Feb 18, 2021

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Ankarette Twynho, attainder, Barnet, bigamy, childbirth, Clarence Vault, Crowland Chronicle, dental evidence, Despenser tomb, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domenico Mancini, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Guild of the Holy Cross Stratford-on-Avon, Hicks, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Ashdown-Hill, John Stacey, Joyce Filyer, Luton Guild Book, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Holinshed, Roger Bolingbroke, Rous Roll, Samuel Hawling, Shakespeare, Tewkesbury Abbey, Thomas Burdet, Thomas More, Thomas Penn, Thomas Southwell, Tower of London, wounds, Wydevilles

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkpus.com GEORGE DUKE OF CLARENCE, ISOBEL NEVILLE AND THE CLARENCE VAULT This is thought to be a portrait of Isobel from the Luton Guild Book. See The Dragonhound’s interesting post here After the death of Isobel Duchess of Clarence on the 22 December 1476 aged 25, her coffin lay in…
THE DEATH OF HENRY VII

Apr 21, 2019

anniversaries, battles, religion, sources

Arthur “Tudor”, Battle of Bosworth, Clifford Brewer, death, death masks, diseases, Francis Bacon, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Fisher, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, Reformation, Richmond Palace, Thomas Penn, tuberculosis, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-death-of-henry-vii/ Henry VII on his deathbed : Wriothesley’s Heraldic Collection Vol 1 Book of Funerals. c Unknown artist’s impression of Tudor being crowned in the aftermath of Bosworth.. It must have seemed surreal to him as he wandered through the dead kings apartments at Westminster that had now,…
The Maligned Ricardians

Jan 9, 2016

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“Perkin”, “Tudor” “sources”, Anne Neville, AR Myers, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, Camden, Commines, Croyland, Eleanor Talbot, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Fabyan, George Buck, George Buck the Younger, Grafton, Hall, Henry IV, Henry of Buckingham, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Morton, John Rous, John Stow, Kincaid, Paul Murray Kendall, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard Sylvester, Robert Stillington, Roper, Sir Edward Hoby, Sir James Tyrrell, Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel, Thomas More, Titulus Regius

Part 2 – Sir George Buck “The historiographer must be veritable and free from all prosopolepsies and partial respects; he must not add or omit anything, either of partiality or of hatred.” (Sir George Buck – The History of King Richard III) Introduction Sir George Buck (1560-1622) faithfully served two English Monarchs in a…
JANE SHORE—TART WITH A HEART?

Nov 5, 2015

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“withered arm”, adultery, Alice Perrers, Arthur “Tudor”, Catherine de Roet, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Hastings, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Shore, Ludgate, Ludlow, mistresses, More, Ralph Holinshed, Richard III, Rosamund Clifford, Shakespeare, sorcery, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lynom

Medieval mistresses seem to get a raw deal from most contemporary and near-contemporary chroniclers, being seen as falling ‘outside the accepted norm’ in regards to sexual mores. Prim Victorian authors also enjoyed making moral judgments on them, and even modern historians, while less interested in the prurient details, often paint them as scheming she-wolves or…
Those misunderstood “Tudors”?

Sep 10, 2014

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beheadings, boilings, burnings, denialists, executions, hangings, Henry VIII, Ralph Holinshed

According to Holinshed, the cuddly Henry VIII ordered the executions of some 72,000 people. Adding in the effects of his father’s reign and those of his children might well take the total to about 100,000 although that may exaggerate their rate somewhat. What a good thing this wasn’t a recognised separate dynasty until Hume’s time,…