royal tombs

The Black Prince’s tomb is nothing but his son’s propaganda….!

Feb 9, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, religion

Canterbury Cathedral, Duchy of Cornwall, Edward the Black Prince, Henry IV, Henry VII, Pontefract Castle, propaganda, Richard II, royal tombs, usurpation

Here’s more about the Black Prince’s tomb/effigy at Canterbury. It includes a link to a very detailed account of the investigations and findings. And now another on the same subject, that claims the effigy (which the prince himself requested and described in detail) was created by his son Richard II solely to boost his own…
Richard II’s visit to Edward II’s tomb, 1390.

Oct 17, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources, travel

Archbishop of Canterbury, Berkeley Castle, Bishop of Lincoln, deposition, Edward II, Edward III, Gloucester Cathedral, Henry IV, Italy, Kathryn Warner, popes, proposed canonisation, Richard II, royal tombs, schism, Thomas of woodstock, Westminster Chronicle

Edward II‘s “tomb” is, as is well-known, to be found in Gloucester Cathedral. What is less well-known is that Richard II wanted it become a shrine, and for his great-grandfather to become St. Edward of Caernarfon. Interestingly, we cannot even be entirely sure that Edward II’s remains lie in the tomb. Kathryn Warner has produced…
Richard III and the Ancient Egyptian cheese….!

Aug 25, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, art, buildings, religion, Science

Ancient Egypt, Anglo-Saxons, anthropology, Armenia, Azerbaijan, bamboo strips, barley, Battle of Bosworth, BBC, beer, Blombos cave, board games, Canada, cave art, cheese, China, Ciampate del Diavolo, Clotilda, Cote d’Ivoire, Erebus, gold, human hair, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, King Herod, Leicester, Leicester Greyfriars, mammoths, Mary Stuart, multiplication tables, Northwest Passage, nutcrackers, Pembrokeshire, Philippa Langley, quarry, Richard III, Roman villa, royal portraits, royal tombs, Russia, sculptures, shoes, Sir John Franklin, Sir John Maitland, skulls, slave ship, South Africa, Staffordshire Hoard, Stonehenge, storytelling, tomb of Ptahmes, USA, Wiltshire, X-rays

In this intriguing list of twenty , the discovery of Richard III’s remains comes in at number two! He was pipped at the post by an extremely old cheese from Egypt. Eh? Old cheese? Sorry, but can that possibly be more important than Richard? It doesn’t even have King Tut’s fingerprints or teethmarks! 😦 Oh…
Isabel Neville’s body arrives at Tewkesbury Abbey….

Jan 4, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Clarence Vault, Isabel Neville, Joan Beauchamp, royal tombs, Tewkesbury Abbey, wills

I have taken the following information and references from this article, so I do not claim the hard work for myself! The corpse of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence (†1476) was brought to Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire.[1] A monastic chronicle describes how it arrived there on 4 January 1477 and remained in the middle of the…
Berengaria of Navarre

Dec 23, 2020

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, genealogy, religion, Science

Berengaria, consorts, France, French Revolution, l’Epau Abbey, le Mans, mtDNA, Navarre, Richard I, Robert S.P. Fripp, royal tombs, Third Crusade

Kingfinding (or consortfinding) is back, this time in France. The lady in question, however, was from Navarre and became queen to Richard I. Although he wasn’t in England much during his reign, due to his crusading activities, she did accompany him part of the way on occasion. Here is a Guardian article, located by Robert…
PIGGY BANK FOR A KING!

Nov 27, 2020

buildings, humour, religion

cherub, Henry VII, parsimony, royal tombs, Westminster Abbey

Not so long ago, I visited Westminster Abbey. As I gazed through the bars at the large, gilded, virtually glowing bling tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, I began to chuckle. People must have thought I was mad (or should that be madder?) There in the back of the chubby cherub right next…
The death mask of Edward III….

Nov 13, 2020

anniversaries, art, heraldry

Edward III, Isabelle de France, Roger Mortimer, royal tombs, Sheen

King Edward III of England reigned for fifty years. He was born on 13 November 1312, at Windsor, became a great and successful warrior king, and died at Sheen, a shadow of his former self on 21 June 1377. His decline was sad, because he’d been a truly able and shrewd monarch who’d steadied the…
Edmund, Earl of Rutland, a life cut short.

Dec 29, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Battle of Bosworth, Cecily Neville, christening, Edmund of Langley, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, executions, Fotheringhay, George Duke of Clarence, Harry Lovedeyne, John Boyes, Lord Clifford, Ludlow Castle, Micklegate Bar, Mortimers, Priory of St. John the Baptist, reburials, Richard III, Richard of Salisbury, Rouen, royal tombs, signatures, Sir Edmund Mortimer, The history geeks, Wakefield, York

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/edmund-earl-of-rutland-a-life-cut-short/ Fotheringhay Church and Yorkist Mausoleum 1804. Watercolour by unknown artist. A link here to an excellent article on Edmund, Earl of Rutland. The History Geeks can be found on Facebook: The article also give a plausible reason as to why Edmund’s christening ceremony at Rouen…
Hey, Richard II and St Edward the Confessor are one and the same…!

Apr 18, 2019

buildings, religion, television reviews

Charles I, confusion, Edward III, English Civil War, Guy Fawkes, Henry III, House of Commons, inaccuracy, Parliament, Richard II, royal tombs, Secrets of Britain, St. Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, yesterday

I have just watched a truly aggravating documentary from this 2014 series. In particular the episode called “Secrets of Westminster”. It starts with the tomb of Edward the Confessor…for which they show the correct tomb, yes, but then include a lot of lingering close-ups of the tomb effigy of Richard II. The implication is, it seems,…
Where our dead kings and queens are buried….

Mar 8, 2019

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Anne, Charles II, Frogmore, George of Denmark, Hanover, Henry VI Chapel, Leicester, Mary II, Napoleon III, Richard III, Rome, royal tombs, Stuart vault, Westminster Abbey, William III, Windsor Castle

This link is to a brief article about a book about where our kings and queens are buried. I have not read the book, British Royal Tombs by Aiden Dodson, so cannot comment upon it. You’ll find it here on Amazon I believe the image below is taken from the book.