Richard of Warwick

Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick – Wife to the Kingmaker

Dec 22, 2021

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Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Anne Beauchamp and her husband, Richard Neville, ‘The Kingmaker,’ Earl of Warwick. From the Latin version of the Rous Roll. Donated to the College of Arms by Melvyn Jeremiah. Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his second wife Isobel Despenser, was born…
More Secret Marriages!

Nov 27, 2021

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Anne Boleyn, Barnet, Bishop of Liverpool, cartoons, Catherine of Aragon, Charles Brandon, Dan Snow, denialists, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, George IV, Henry VIII, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Maria Fitzherbert, Mary “Tudor”, pre-contract, Richard of Warwick, Royal Marriage Secrets, secret marriage, Twitter

Back in 2010, historian Dan Snow was married in secret to Lady Edwina Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster. I’ve looked but I can’t see that Dan mentions Edward IV‘s probable ‘secret marriage’ to Eleanor Talbot in any of his Twitter or other postings on history. (He did once post a very entertaining picture…
The Kingmaker’s Anger

Nov 22, 2021

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I’m working on a biography of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick – the man best introduced as The Kingmaker. I have written on the Wars of the Roses, on Richard, Duke of York, and Richard III. Warwick has been a constant presence throughout. I spent some time in an earlier dispute over the throne of…
THE CHILDREN OF JOHN NEVILLE, MARQUIS OF MONTAGU and EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND d.1471

Oct 18, 2021

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Anne Neville, Anne Neville the younger, Anne Stonor, Barnet, Barons Scrope of Masham, Charles Brandon, Christine Carpenter, Elizabeth of York, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville Duke of Bedford, Hicks, Isobel Ingoldesthorpe, Isobel Neville, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, letters, Mary “Tudor”, ODNB, Richard III, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, Sawston, Sheriff Hutton, St Peters Church Elford, Taunton Castle, WE Hampton

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com The Smythe monument Elford Church. Photo Aidan McRae Thomson Of the four sons of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, only two, Richard Earl of Warwick and John Marquis of Montagu had children. Warwick, who would go on to become known as the ‘Kingmaker’, had two daughters, while John who…
MISIDENTIFIED HISTORICAL PORTRAITS INCLUDING TUDOR QUEENS…

Oct 9, 2021

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“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, beards, Bere Regis, breeches, Catherine Howard, Charles Brandon, Cromwells, David Starkey, Elizabeth of York, executions, fashion, Hans Holbein, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane, Jane Seymour, John Morton, Katherine Parr, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Mary “Tudor”, Mary I, Master John, National Portrait Gallery, Nicolas Sanders, Queen’s Collection, queens, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, royal portraits, Sir John Cheke, St. Mary’s Fairford, St. Mary’s Warwick, Thomas Wolsey, Toledo Museum of Art, tomb effigies, Wars of the Roses

Reblogged from MISIDENTIFIED HISTORICAL PORTRAITS INCLUDING TUDOR QUEENS… Does anyone else like me get irritated by misidentified portraits of historical characters? Is it that difficult to get correct? It’s quite sloppy to be honest as just a quick glance at them tells you something ain’t quite right here! It’s particularly common around 16th century portraiture when…
Now available …

Sep 27, 2021

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albums, biographies, Calais, Edward of Lancaster, George Duke of Clarence, Jasper “Tudor”, John Duke of Somerset, John Earl of Oxford, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, Readeption, Richard of Warwick, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury battlefield website, The Legendary Ten Seconds

… on the Tewkesbury battlefield website: Wars of the Roses music by the Legendary Ten Seconds. Here is more information about the group and their output so far.
Richard, 3rd Duke of York, took his wife’s maiden name….?

Sep 22, 2021

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Anne O’Brien, Cecily Duchess of York, Cecily Neville the Younger, inaccurate reviews, Richard Duke of York, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick

The following review extract is from this link :- “….They might be united by blood, but in 1459 England’s royal family of Plantagenets and Nevilles are being torn apart by an internecine war. Cecily, Duchess of York, is embroiled just as deeply as her husband, Richard Neville, in a plot to topple the…
PERKIN WARBECK AND THE ASSAULTS ON THE GATES OF EXETER

Sep 17, 2021

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“Perkin”, Ann Wroe, attainder, Beaulieu Abbey, Blackheath, Coldridge, Cornish rebellion, Devon, East gate of Exeter, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Exeter, Greenwich Palace, Lady Katherine Gordon, Launceston, Ludlow, maps, north gate of Exeter, Penzance, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, sanctuary, Second Cornish Rebellion, Sir John Evans, St. michael’s Mount, Tamar, Tournament Tapestry, Valenciennes, Westminster, Whitesand Bay

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com This is thought to be a portrait of Perkin Warbeck/Richard Duke of York from the Tournament Tapestry at Valenciennes Perkin Warbeck. Pencil sketch c1560. Note the eye blemish in both portraits. Following on from my earlier post and the high likelihood that John Evans ,who lies buried in Coldridge Church Devon, was…
Two mediaeval logboats have been found in the River Boyne

Sep 11, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, Science

Anthony Murphy, Boyne, Drogheda, drones, Ireland, logboats, Newport Ship, Normans, Richard of Warwick, siege of Drogheda, St. Patrick, University College Dublin

In a case of underwater archaeology, this RTE article describes how Anthony Murphy discovered the logboats near Drogheda, with a drone. It can be compared to the Newport Ship, but is potentially a thousand years older.
THE MARRIAGES OF THE SIBLINGS OF ELIZABETH WOODVILLE

Aug 13, 2021

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“Lambert Simnel”, Anne Wydeville, Arundel Castle, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Blackheath, Canterbury Cathedral, Edgecote, Elizabeth Baroness Scales, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, George Grey Earl of Kent, Henry of Buckingham, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Hicks, Hillingdon Church, Jacquetta Wydeville, Jane Wydeville, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Lincoln, John Lord Strange, John Wydeville, Katherine Duchess of norfolk, Katherine Plantagenet, Katherine Wydeville, Knights of the Bath, Margaret Fitzalan, Margaret Wydeville, marriages, Martha Wydeville, Mary Lewis, Mary Wydeville, ODNB, Richard of Warwick, Sir Anthony Grey, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir John Bromley, Sir Richard Wingfield, Stoke Field, The Cornish Rebellion, Thomas Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, Thomas Lord Stanley, Tintern Abbey, Turner, William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, William of Worcester, William Viscount Bourchier, windows, Wydevilles

Elizabeth Woodville Royal Window Canterbury Cathedral Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Very soon after the clandestine marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville had taken place in 1464 it became abundantly clear to the old nobility that the siblings of the new Queen would henceforth be having their pick of the most sought after heirs and heiresses of…