Sir Ralph Lumley

Pink or lilac robes today, Your Majesty….?

Jun 7, 2024

anniversaries, art, buildings

Anne of Bohemia, Barons Lumley, chester-le-street, Edward of Woodstock, Epiphany Rising, Henry IV, Joan of Kent, John Duke of Exeter, Leeds Castle, lilac, Lumley Castle, Margaret Holland, pink, Richard II, royal portraits, Sir Ralph Lumley, Thomas Earl of Kent, usurpation

Here’s a portrait of Richard II that isn’t seen very often, except perhaps head and shoulders—possibly because of the figure of Ralph, 1st Lord Lumley kneeling before him. Richard’s likeness seems to be a copy of his famous portrait in Westminster Abbey, but this one hangs in Leeds Castle. I think it rather striking not…
Might Edward IV have had a third “wife”….?

Jan 6, 2022

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion, sources

Anne Conyers, bigamy, Bishops of Durham, dispensations, documents, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Epiphany Rising, Hicks, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lumley-Conyers marriage, Lumleys, Richard Lord Lumley, Sir Ralph Lumley, wikitree

I’m not sure I kept track of everyone in this intriguing link but it makes interesting reading. Discussing it here would be complicated, the link has to be read in full. If the possibility is actually fact, it makes me wonder if Edward IV married someone else – as well as Eleanor Talbot and Elizabeth…
KEY TO THE CASTLE: LUMLEY CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS

Jan 7, 2019

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Bamburgh Castle, Edward IV, Epiphany Rising, executions, George Lumley, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VII, hotels, John Earl of Somerset, John Lumley, Lumley Castle, Margaret “Tudor”, Pilgrimage of Grace, Richard III, Scottish campaign 1482, siege of Berwick, sieges, Sir Ralph Lumley, Thomas Lumley, Wars of the Roses

Recently it hit the news that the key to Lumley Castle’s ancient banqueting hall had been returned after it was stolen during an event 40 years ago. Lumley Castle is currently a hotel (so another one to add to the list of interesting castles you can stay in!) and the family who lived there had…

Sir Ralph Lumley

Pink or lilac robes today, Your Majesty….?

Might Edward IV have had a third “wife”….?

KEY TO THE CASTLE: LUMLEY CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS