Richard III
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This post harks back to a previous one of 5th November 2014. Both concern the similarities between the lives and deaths of Richard II and Richard III, but I have now come upon a passage in a book that is actually about Richard II, but much of which could be applied to Richard III. The book…
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Another new theory about the fate of Jimmy Hoffa has raised its head. Hoffa’s disappearance in a Michigan parking lot forty-two years ago has always been a mystery. “. Hoffa was a Detroit labor union leader and activist who was well known for his involvement in the Teamsters’ Union as well as the criminal charges…
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After the time of long barrenness, God first send Anne, which signifyth grace, In token that at her heart’s heaviness, He as for barrenness would from them chase. Harry, Edward, Edmund, each in his place Succeeded; and after twain daughter came Elizabeth and Margaret, and afterwards William. John after William next born was, Which both…
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Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum My husband and I had the good fortune to spend two weeks in England and Wales in October, 2017. I had been asked to moderate a conference about Richard III and 15th century warfare at the Leicester Guildhall, sponsored by the Richard III…
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A digital reconstruction of Richard’s tomb in Greyfriars with the epitaph. De Montfort University. A digital reconstruction of what Richard’s Tomb may have looked like with the epitaph De Montfort University The tomb for which Henry Tudor paid the sum of 10 pounds 1 shilling in 1495 A digital view of Greyfriars with Leicester Cathedral…
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A MAN WHO WOULD BE KING: THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND RICHARD III
“Beauforts”, books, Buckingham rebellion, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, excepta dignitate regali, executions, First Battle of St. Albans, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VIII, High Steward, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, Janet Reedman, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Northampton, Richard III, Staffords, Tewkesbury, Thomas of woodstock, Tower of LondonThe Duke of Buckingham is rather a ‘dark horse’ figure in the history of Richard III. No one knows for sure why he aided Richard to take the throne only to turn upon him in rebellion a few months later. Simplistic ideas such as ‘he repented of his ways after the princes were murdered’ don’t…
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Poet Bob Ferdinand wrote this sonnet about Richard and entered it into the Nebraska Shakespeare Sonnet Contest last summer, winning second prize (should have been first!) The Last Plantagenet In August, at late Summer’s teeming height, The last Plantagenet rode forth one day Defying Fortune, rising to the fight And risking all in battle’s bloodied…
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There have been no fewer than seventeen attempts on the lives of US Presidents, only four of which succeeded. The very first one of them all was a failure, and the would-be assassin was an Englishman who thought he (the assassin, not the President) was King Richard III. His intended victim was Andrew Jackson.…
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A wall painting at St Mary the Virgin church in Lakenheath which depicts King Edmund “November 20 is St Edmund’s Day, the feast day of the ‘last king of East Anglia’ and – some would say – England’s proper patron saint. But where do his bones lie? Trevor Heaton explores the twists and turns of…
