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St. Thomas Cantilupe

Another nobleman shoving his firstborn son aside….?

Oct 2, 2024

anniversaries, genealogy, heraldry, law, religion, sources

annulments, Complete Peerage, disinheritance, Earls of Arundel, funeral effigy, Greasley Castle, illegitimacy, Isabel le Despenser, Joan de Cantilupe, murder, Nicholas Cantilupe, saints, St. Thomas Cantilupe, Tiphaine de Cantilupe

I confess that when I wrote the article The disgraceful second marriage of the unpleasant 3rd Earl of Arundel…. – murreyandblue, {21/9} I thought such marital chicanery was a one-off (Henry VIII excepted!) I certainly didn’t expect to happen upon another instance. This second example of heir-shuffling isn’t as easy to explain as Arundel’s, however,…
THE WHITE LYON & THE MOURNING SWORD

Feb 4, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Charters, Edward IV, executions, Green Dragon, Henry III, Henry VIII, Hereford, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford Mourning Sword, Mortimer’s Cross, Owain Tudor, parhelion, Richard I, St. Ethelbert, St. Thomas Cantilupe, Wars of the Roses, White Lyon

Within walking distance of Hereford Cathedral, stands an imposing hotel called the Green Dragon. That was not always its name, however; in the 15th c it was The White Lyon and was used as the headquarters of Edward of March, soon to be Edward IV, around the time of the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross. It…