The Survival of the Princes in the Tower
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As Ashdown-Hill found, although he was unable to locate her precisely in the genealogical research that eventually located Michael Ibsen as a mitochondrial DNA match for Richard III, Richard’s sister Margaret Duchess of Burgundy was buried in a Franciscan church in Mechelen, in her Duchy Although it was destroyed during subsequent religious conflicts, a reconstruction…
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Lambert Simnel and Edward V
“Lambert Simnel”, bastardy, Bermondsey Abbey, Bernard Andre, Chrimes, de la Pole family, Dublin, Earl of Oxford, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Edward Woodville, Elizabeth of Suffolk, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Duke of Clarence, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VII, Ireland, Jasper “Tudor”, John Earl of Lincoln, Lord Strange, Mancini, Martin Schwarz, Nottinghamshire, Old St. Paul’s, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sheen, Stoke Field, The Survival of the Princes in the Tower, Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Titulus Regius, York civic recordsI’m beginning to convince myself that the Lambert Simnel Affair might have been an uprising in favour of Edward V, not Edward, Earl of Warwick…. https://mattlewisauthor.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/lambert-simnel-and-edward-v/
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The Survival of the Princes in the Tower has finally been released. There was a delay in some copies reaching readers in September, so by way of apology I blogged a little extract which can be found below. I also wrote a piece for On the Tudor Trail which was quite well received and can…
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I was excited to be asked to contribute to an article in Issue 18 of History of Royals magazine about the fate of the Princes in the Tower. It helps when I have a book on the way next month called The Survival of the Princes in the Tower – and it probably gives away…
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Squaring the Circle
“Perkin”, Arthur “Tudor”, Arthur Plantagenet, books, Catherine of Aragon, David Baldwin, Dr. John Clement, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Ferdinand of Aragon, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Isabel of Castile, Jack Leslau, James “VIII/III”, James VII/II, Lady Catherine Gordon, Margaret of Salisbury, Matthew Lewis, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard of Eastwell, Richard of Shrewsbury, sanctuary, The Survival of the Princes in the Tower, Thomas More, Westminster AbbeyWriting The Survival of the Princes in the Tower was an enormously enjoyable project. The book, due out in Autumn 2017, considers the evidence that one, or both, of the sons of Edward IV survived well beyond 1483, when they are traditionally considered to have been murdered by their uncle Richard III. My problem with…
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