Sir William Stanley
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An invitation to a magnificent farewell feast….
Auld Lang Syne, Castles in the air, cats, Elizabeth Duchess of Suffolk, Fools and jesters, Henry VII, John de la pole Earl of Lincoln, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, lapdogs, Margaret Beaufort, medieval dogs and hounds, medieval feasts and banquets, medieval recipes, pugs, Richard III, Sir William StanleyI think that by now many of you know that the Murrey & Blue blog is to end by 24 January. To those of you for whom this is the first intimation, I apologise. There may be efforts to continue it or start a new blog in its place, but the final post in its…
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Rhys ap Thomas and the tournament of April 1507….
2nd Duke of Buckingham, A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire by Richard Fenton, Battle of Bosworth, Carew Castle, Field of Cloth of Gold, Henry VII, House of Tudor, John Morton, Margaret Beaufort, Order of the Garter, Pembroke and Monkton Local History Society, Rhys ap Thomas, Richard III, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, tournamentsThis morning the following link dropped into my inbox: https://tinyurl.com/3uwbet79. It seems there was a talk at the “….Pembroke and Monkton Local History Society….first meeting of 2025 on Saturday morning, January 11 in Pembroke Town Hall.…” Why have I picked up on this? Well, perhaps because of the subject of the talk “….will focus on…
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I recently watched an episode of Antiques Road Trip in which a sequence was set in Hedingham Castle in Essex. It was Series 11, Episode 23, in which art experts Mark Stacy and Thomas Plant travelled through Essex and Suffolk on their way to an auction in Cambridgeshire. I fear I have not been able…
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The following list deals with fifteen unexpected rulers. Well, these things are in the eye of the beholder, of course, but (for readers of this blog) the salient name on the list is Henry VII, who apparently won at Bosworth “largely by chance”. Hmm…. How, pray, can deliberate desertion and treachery be regarded as…
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THOMAS GREY MARQUESS OF DORSET – MEDIOCRE AND SHIFTY OR GOOD AND PRUDENT MAN?
Astley Castle, Battle of Stoke, Bermondsey Abbey, bigamy, Brittany, Buckingham rebellion, canon law, Canterbury Cathedral, Cecilia Bonville, Cheneygates, Christopher Urswick, Coldridge, Croyland, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, George Neville, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry of Buckingham, illegitimacy, Jacquette, John Foxe, John Morton, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, lady anne stonor, Ludlow Castle, marriages, More, pre-contract, Reynold Bray, richard iii coronation, Richard Woodville, Second Battle of St. Albans, Sheen, Sir John Grey of Groby, sir john stonor, Sir William Stanley, Stony Stratford, T.B. Pugh, Taunton Castle, Tewkesbury, The Shadow of the Tower, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, William Lord Hastings, Wydeville plot, WydevillesReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com Arms of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset (c.1455-1501). Wikipdia. Well, well, well. What can I say about Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset (c. 1455–1501)? A member of the voracious Wydeville/Woodville family he lived through the tumult of the Wars of the Roses, at one time ending up in a bit…
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Wythenshawe Hall. (2023, December 3). In Wikipedia By Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0, image here The Tatton family had a deer park in Wythenshawe, then Cheshire, as far back as 1297. However, the present Hall dates to about 1540 when Robert Tatton was the head of the family. The Tattons were relatively minor Cheshire gentry.…
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More praise for Philippa Langley’s discoveries concerning the Princes in the Tower….
“Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Berkeley Castle, Coldridge, Dominic Smee, Edward II, Edward III, Elizabeth of York, Fieschi Letter, Henry IV, Henry VII, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Kathryn Warner, Leicester dig, mtDNA evidence, Philippa Langley, Pontefract Castle, Richard II, Richard III, scoliosis, Sir William Stanley, stained glass, The Lost King, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, usurpationPraise and admiration abound for Philippa Langley’s new discoveries and the book that tells all about the work she and her colleagues have been doing to trace what really happened to the boys in the Tower, the sons of Edward IV. Well, they were princes until 1483, then they were illegitimate boys, and then…
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The boy who had been King Edward V….
“confessions”, “Lambert Simnel”, “Oakhanger”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, attainder, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Stoke, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Coldridge, Devon, Dublin Cathedral, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Essex, executions, fiction, fire, George Duke of Clarence, Havering atte Bower, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, hunting lodges, illegitimacy, imposture, John Earl of Lincoln, Kent, Lady Catherine Gordon, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Protector of the Realm, Ludlow Castle, Margaret of Burgundy, notebooks, Oxford, Portuguese marriage plans, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Sheen, Sir John Evans, Sir William Stanley, Spain, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Stanley, Titulus Regius, Tower of LondonLadies and gentlemen, please remember that this novella is a fictional account of what might have happened to the boys known as the Princes in the Tower. The theory about Coldridge is not my original thought, nor have I done anything personally to help prove it. To my knowledge there is nowhere called Oakhanger in Kent, let alone that it was held by the Earl of Lincoln. I…
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