Suffolk

Dunwich: Britain’s Medieval Atlantis….

Jun 5, 2017

Science

Dunwich, lost towns, Suffolk

This article by the Daily Mail is very interesting. I am always spooked by the thought of sunken towns and villages, ghostly church bells tolling mournfully beneath the waves and so on, but this is much more scientific than my over-active imagination. Well worth reading.
A well-connected Archdeacon?

May 8, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

Archdeacons, Barrington Hall, Barringtons, Blythburgh, Cecily Duchess of York, Gatehouses, genealogy, Hatfield Broadoak, Ipswich, Sir Thomas Barrington, Staffords, Suffolk, Thomas Bourchier, William Pykenham, wills, Winifred Pole

As we said last year, late mediaeval prelates were often well-connected. Indeed, as this ODNB article shows, William Pykenham, Archdeacon of Suffolk, died some time in spring 1497, approximately sixty years after his father. His mother was Katherine Barrington, of the prominent Hatfield Broadoak family, which explains some of his appointments through her Bourchier and Stafford…
Richard and John de la Pole I and II….

May 15, 2016

battles, genealogy

Alice Chaucer, Azincourt, Battle of Bosworth, de la Pole family, Earl of Lincoln, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Game of Thrones, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harfleur, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Hull, Italian Wars, John Duke of Suffolk, Michael de la Pole, Pavia, Stoke Field, Suffolk, William de la Pole, Wingfield

This article is about the de la Poles and their connection with Hull. The author rather muddles some members of the family but there are no nasty comments about Richard III. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/…/story-29118778-…/story.html
The Shakespearean editor who was descended from Richard III’s sister …

Apr 6, 2016

genealogy

Anne of Exeter, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, Colchester, Earls of Essex, Edward IV, Rayne, Richard III, Shakespeare, Suffolk

… was Sir Edward Capell, son of the vicar of Stanton in Suffolk. He was, as you can see , a cousin of the Earls of Essex through Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, a descendant of Anne Duchess of Exeter.

Suffolk

Dunwich: Britain’s Medieval Atlantis….

A well-connected Archdeacon?

Richard and John de la Pole I and II….

The Shakespearean editor who was descended from Richard III’s sister …