Robert Stillington
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A Time for Truth, a Time for Lies…or for Pretended Obliviousness and Bullying Tactics
Annette Carson, Bona of savoy, Commines, Constable of England, Countess of Shrewsbury, Croyland, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, fire, Frank Harris, Henry VI, homophobia, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Russell, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lion King, Lord Chancellor, Lord Protector of the Realm, Mancini, Matt Lewis, mediaeval canon law, Medieval, Middleham, Oscar Wilde, Palace of Westminster, Parliament, petition to Richard III, pre-contract, PreContract, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Three Estates, Titulus RegiusMy thanks to everyone at Murrey & Blue who helped with this article. It was very much a team effort, and you know who you are. An Elizabethan Professor Introduced Me to Richard A long time ago, at a university far away, I took a class on medieval history from a professor who thought Elizabeth…
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OK, ‘having a go’ at Richard, will earn a response. Well, why not? All’s fair in love and war. So the above is an imagined image of Richard III. That’s Richard as imagined by his myriad living supporters. I’m sure the diatribe below has been posted for some time at http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/TALBOT.htm#Humphrey TALBOT (Sir Knight)1 The…
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The Tragedy of King Richard 111 (not by William Shakespeare)
Annette Carson, Anthony Woodville, Charles Ross, Crowland, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, George Buck, George Cely, Henry of Buckingham, Hicks, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Morton, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Mancini, Margaret Beaufort, Pontefract Castle, Ralph Neville, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Stillington, Sir Richard Grey, Thomas Bourchier, Thomas Rotherham, Vaughan, William Catesby, WoodvillesPart 6 – “The peace of England, and our safety enforced us to this…” “So mighty and many are my defects That I would rather hide me from my greatness Being a bark to brook no mighty sea Than in my greatness covet to be had And is the vapour of my glory smothered” (William…
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The Tragedy of King Richard 111 (not by William Shakespeare)
Anthony Woodville, Buckingham, Clements Markham, Commines, Crowland, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Gairdner, Henry VII, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lord Protector of the Realm, pre-contract, Robert Stillington, Shakespeare, Simon Stallworth, Sir William Stonor, Stony Stratford, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Three Estates, WoodvillesPart 4 – “… the corruption of a blemished stock “ “ A beauty-waning and distressed widow, Even in the afternoon of her best days, Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye Seduced the pitch and height of his degree To base declension and loathed bigamy. “ (William Shakespeare)…
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Although Commines is the principal source for Robert Stillington being the clergyman who informed Richard of the alleged marriage between Edward IV and Lady Eleanor Talbot, the treatment of the bishop after the accession of Henry VII does appear to support the idea that he was the man involved. Indeed it appears that the Lords…
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We know from the resulting petition from the Three Estates that this followed the testimony of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells. So, if there was anything untoward about the process, how was this prelate rewarded by the new King? A list of Edward IV’s council members is attached to this post but it…
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There were many good things about this programme. Dr. Janina Ramirez joined Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and the lawyer Bertram Fields. All three have studied the late medieval period in detail and in different ways. Then there was Dr. David Starkey. He is a renowned expert on the 1509-1603 period but tends to derive his views…
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http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/03/11/in-defence-of-richard-iii/
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I have come across a few conversations on the net in which the question is asked: If Eleanor Talbot was married to Edward IV, why did she not speak out when he ‘married’ Elizabeth Woodville? It’s a fair enough question, although in my view a tad on the naive side. 15th Century England was not…
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