Richard III
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It never ceases to amaze me what I can find on the web. Only the other day I came upon an interesting argument. You know all that positive legislation Richard enacted in his one and only Parliament? (The legislation that the anti-Richards tend to play down, and claim did not really add up to a…
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So was it Robert Morton, Richard III’s Master of the Rolls and nephew of the future Cardinal, or Polydore Vergil, Henry VII’s pet “historian”? Either way, quite a few documents from Richard’s reign have gone missing. We will adopt a cautious approach to this list: There remain no letters between Richard and Anne although they…
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The date was the 5th of July, in the year 1483, and the City of London played host to one of the most remarkable displays of pomp and circumstance seen in recent memory. Amid much bustling at the Tower, there emerged a procession led by minstrels and trumpeters in red liveries, heralds wearing coats of…
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Anthony Woodville provided an escort of 2,000 men for Edward V’s journey from Ludlow to London. This was no mean escort, indeed it was roughly the same size as the company that had escorted the young Henry VI to Paris for his crowning as King of France. The difference was that Henry VI was convoyed…
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I feel very honoured to have been invited to author on this blog – I can’t guarantee being able to contribute much or often, but it feels very good to be here! In the meantime, if any readers would like to know more about me, I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Yorkist, aficionado of the whole Wars of the Roses period,…
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What is truth? Thanks to Barbara Gaskell Denvil
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Unlike some people – who from their certainty were not only alive at the time, but high in King Richard’s confidence – I honestly do not know what became of the two boys we call for convenience ‘The Princes’. I have read all sorts of theories about what happened to them and none entirely convinces…
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An article about a dinner party in today’s Gloucester Citizen newspaper concerned an imaginary dinner party held at Sudeley Castle, by its present owner, Lady Ashcombe. She described her menu and six guests, all of whom had once owned the castle. It prompted me to ask others what party they would hold. Here’s mine. Please…
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who’s the most evil one of all? Has anyone else tried to read The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety & Prayer in the North of England by Jonathan Hughes? I knew going in that Hughes is openly anti-Richard; I didn’t know he’s anti-Richard with a vengeance. I’m reading the…
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On 28 July 1399, William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire, Lord Treasurer of England and King of Man, Sir John Bushey and Sir Henry Green were executed outside Bristol on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). They had a summary trial at best, and quite probably no trial at all. It is not at…
