Richard of Warwick
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Here is an interesting article with some beautiful photography Note to my Ricardian friends. Joan Neville, wife to William Fitzalan Earl of Arundel and sister to Warwick the Kingmaker is buried in the Fitzalan Chapel, St Nicholas, Arundel. Their tomb and monument can be counted as among the most exquisite from that period of English tomb building.…
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SIR MATTHEW CRADDOCK 1468 – 1531
“Perkin”, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Berkshire, Bridgend, Caerphilly Castle, Calendar of Patent Rolls, Candelston Castle, Candleston Castle, castles, Coity Castle, Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Elizabeth of York, Fitzalan, George Duke of Clarence, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Herberts, Inventory of Ancient Monuments of Glamorgan, Jane Mansell, Jane Stradling, Jasper “Tudor”, Katherine Plantagenet, Kenfig Castle, Lady Catherine Gordon, Llynfi Valley, Lordship of Glamorgan, Mansels, Mary I, Matthew Craddock, Newcastle Castle, Newtons, Norman conquest, Ogmore Castle, Ogmore Triangle, Oxwich Castle, Perkins family, Reynoldston, Rhys ap Thomas, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Sir Richard Herbert, Sir Roger Berkerolles, Somerset, St. Donat’s Castle, Stradlings, Strattigan, Swansea, Switzerland, Talbots, Turbevilles, Wales, William de Londres, William Herbert Earl of HuntingdonMatthew Craddock was the son of Richard ap Gwilliam ap Evan ap Craddock Vreichfras and Jennet Horton of Candleston Castle in Glamorgan. His great grandfather, William Horton of Tregwynt in Pembrokeshire, married Joan de Canteloupe the heiress of Candleston. Jennet Horton was their granddaughter. I first came across Matthew Craddock while looking at anything that…
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Right, ladies and gentlemen. £1.1 million is what we need. If we get out our numerous piggy banks and pool our resources, we may acquire one of Richard’s most important castles in the north! “THE ruins of Sheriff Hutton castle near York are for sale as part of a £1.1 million estate. “The remains of…
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ST MARY’S CHURCH, FAIRFORD: ROYAL PORTRAITS
Arthur “Tudor”, Bere Regis, Catherine of Aragon, churches, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Betjeman, John Morton, John Tame, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary “Tudor”, Nikolaus Pevsner, Queen of Sheba, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Solomon, Thomas WolseySt Mary’s, Fairford, Gloucestershire. ‘A complete and perfect Perpendicular church’ and famous for it fine collection of medieval glass. Described in Betjeman’s Best British Churches as ‘a complete and perfect Perpendicular’ church(1) this beautiful wool church was rebuilt by John Tame, a wool merchant from Gloucester , in the late 15th Century to replace a…
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In my other article about Richard’s support for the Harringtons of Lancashire against Thomas, Lord Stanley, * I promised to write more about Stanley’s treachery and thirst for revenge on Richard. Other events happened at around the same time as the Harrington/Stanley quarrels, indeed the two are contiguous, and this time Richard was responsible for Thomas…
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The only certain thing that can be said of the marriage of George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, is that it took place in Calais. Oh, and that Isabel’s uncle, the Archbishop of York, performed the ceremony. After that, the picture is a little blurred. Which day? Which…
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Uncle Richard?
“Princes”, art, Battle of Bosworth, Cecily Neville, Charles II, Civil War, Danny Dyer, David Garrick, Earl of Northumberland, Elizabeth Tyrrell, Elizabeth Wydeville, Frances Wray, genealogy, George Neville, Gipping Chapel, Henry of Buckingham, Joan Haute, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John of Gaunt, Katherine Haute, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of Salisbury, Percies, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Richard Woodville, Robert Cecil, Shakespeare, Sir Henry Vane, Sir James Tyrrell, Stowmarket, Thomas Snellgrove, William Brandon, William Cecil
A long time ago, I posted a short article about one of my ancestors, Thomas Snellgrove, who was a portrait artist and painted an actor portraying Richard III. Here is the link. I have been researching my family history for over thirty years and it used to be a very slow and painstaking process. The…
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A SWORD OF EDWARD IV IN IRELAND
“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, Bishop of Annaghtown, Calais, Dublin Castle, Earl of Desmond, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, House of York, Ireland, Ludford Bridge, rebels, Reginald’s Tower, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Stoke Field, Trim castle, Waterford Mint, Waterford MuseumThe House of York always had a strong connection with Ireland. Richard Duke of York and his family lived there from a while, sometimes at the imposing Trim Castle (beloved of movie makers from Excalibur to Braveheart) and sometimes at Dublin Castle where George of Clarence was born. Later, after the battle of Ludford Bridge,…
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Well, OK, I admit it, the picture right above is NOT Edmund. It’s just an image of a young knight, which is what Edmund was at the time of his death. The trouble is, what did Edmund of Rutland actually look like? Another giant like his elder brother Edward IV? Or…smaller and more delicate, like his…