Sir Edward Brampton
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THE GELDERLAND DOCUMENT – ‘PROOF OF LIFE OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORK* ALIAS PERKIN WARBECK
“Missing Princes Project”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, Albert of Saxony, Anne Crawford, Bermondsey Abbey, Charles VIII, continental archives, documents, Domenico Mancini, Dr. John Argentine, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, engelbert ii of nassau, evidence, executions, exile, Frederick the Wise, Gelderland Document, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Human Shredder, Ireland, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, lion tower, Lisbon, Margaret of Burgundy, Maximilian I, Nathalie Nijman-Bliekendaal, Netherlands, Paul Murray Kendall, Philippa Langley, Polydore Vergil, Portugal, Richard III, Robert Morton, Sir Edward Brampton, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Tournament Tapestry, Tower of London, Tyburn, University of Utrecht, Westminster Abbey*This is the title of a chapter from The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley. Without the aid of this invaluable book I would never have been able to write this post… Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com The Gelderland Document is a unique, tantalising and quite astonishing document that was discovered back in the…
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Who’s coming to dinner (a guest post)
“Princes”, Anne Neville, bigamy, Brittany, Burgundy, castles, Christmas, Earl Rivers, Edward IV, Edward of Middleham, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, France, Gipping Halll, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Jacquette, John Duke of Bedford, John Kendall, Lent, Margaret d’Anjou, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Nottingham Castle, Portugal, Richard III, Sheriff Hutton, Sir Edward Brampton, Sir James Tyrrell, sumptuary laws, WestminsterHow did this happen? Am I dreaming? Is there some sort of Time-slip? Yet here I am, somehow “transposed” from my 21st century self to a Lady-in-Waiting, helping to host a secret dinner. I cannot understand how or why it has occurred, all I know is that it is the end of February 1485, after…
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Of party food, comic films and the sinister reality behind them
BBC4, Bernard Cribbins, Carry On Columbus, Columbus, de heretico comburendo, Edward IV, Ferdinand of Aragon, Food, Isabel of Castile, jamon iberico, Jim Dale, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, Mordecai Mendoza, Portugal, Richard III, serrano ham, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sir Edward Brampton, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, tapasIt doesn’t have to have been in Spain but I expect that most of you will have been to a party at which tapas was served. One of the main components of this is a type of ham known as jamon iberico or serrano. Have you wondered why this is the principal meat in tapas?…
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