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royal tombs

Another view on that urn

Dec 25, 2017

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, Science

“Princes”, Annette Carson, Charles II, coffins, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Glenn Moran, Helen Maurer, Henry Pole the Younger, human remains, John Ashdown-Hill, More, mtDNA, Nerdalicious, propaganda, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal tombs, Tower of London, urn, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle

This excellent post from Nerdalicious, whose tabs appropriately include “History of Folk and Fairy Tales”, shows just how desperately ridiculous the Cairo case really is, particularly when they treat More’s first half as a Fifth Gospel and ignore his second. After all, we have already shown that the small coffins buried with Edward IV are…
Was Henry Vll mean? His funeral – and other – Expenses.

Apr 21, 2017

anniversaries

Anne, avarice, Charles I, dancing, Elizabeth of York, Excerpta Historica, funeral effigy, gambling, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Mark Duffy, royal tombs, Royal tombs of Mediaeval England, Samuel Bentley, St. george’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/19/was-henry-vii-mean-his-funeral-and-other-expenses/ Effigies of Henry Vll and Elizabeth of York by Torrigiano Henry died on 21 April 1509. Henry has come down through history as something of a miser, a tightwad. Whether this is undeserved or otherwise , I do not know, although his Privy Purse Expenses make very…