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Did Archbishop Scrope’s ghost walk with his spectral coffin….?

Jul 15, 2024

buildings, genealogy, law, religion

Archbishop Arundell, Archbishop Scrope, Bishopsthorpe, executions, haunting, Henry IV, John Morton, revolts, Richard II, Scropes, Thomas Mowbray Earl of Nottingham, tombs, York Minster

When Archbishop of York Richard Scrope was beheaded on 8 June 1405 he gained the distinction of being the first prelate of such high rank to be executed for treason. I can think of at least two more who should have suffered a similar fate, Thomas Arundel (Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (1353-1414) (luminarium.org)) and…
Breaking the code – Charles V

Mar 14, 2023

anniversaries, religion, Science

ambassadors, Catherine of Aragon, Charles V, codebreakers, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Ferdinand II, Francis I, Germany, Henry VIII, Holy Roman Emperors, Mary I, Maximilian I, mercenaries, Nancy, Prague, Protestant rebels, revolts, Schmalkaildic League, Stanislas Library

The Emperor Charles V was the grandson of Maximilian I (Richard III’s friend and step-nephew-in-law), a nephew of Catherine of Aragon (and thus by marriage to Henry VIII) and father-in-law of Mary I. In February 1547, he feared death at the hands of a Italian mercenary (Pierre Strozzi) and wrote a fiendishly coded letter to…