Thomas Lord Stanley

1484 – TITULUS REGIUS: FACT OR FICTION?

Jan 23, 2018

anniversaries, law, sources

“Tudor” propaganda, A R Myers, AE Houseman, Arthur Conan Doyle, attainder, Barnard Castle, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Buckingham rebellion, Calais, Charles Ross, Charles Wood, Chrimes, Chris Skidmore, Clements Markham, Commines, Coronation, Crowland Chronicle, David Horspool, depositions, Edward II, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Eleanor Cobham, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Fabyan, George Duke of Clarence, Grafton, Henry Kelly, Henry of Buckingham, Henry Riley, Henry VII, historians, Historiography, Horace Walpole, Humphrey of Gloucester, illegitimacy, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Joan of Navarre, John Daunger, John Home, John Morton, John Russell, John Stacy, King’s Council, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lander, Lord Protector of the Realm, Louis XI, Mancini, Margery Jourdemayne, mediaeval canon law, minority kings, Mortimer Levine, National Archives, Northampton, Parliament, Parliamentary Roll, Paul Murray Kendall, petition to Richard III, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richard of Warwick, Robert Stillington, Roger Bolingbroke, Rosemary Horrox, Scottish border, Simon Stallworth, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir Richard Grey, Sir William Stonor, Stony Stratford, Thomas Blake, Thomas Bourchier, Thomas Burdet, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Rotherham, Thomas Southwell, Thomas Wake, Three Estates, Titulus Regius, Treaty of Troyes, Walpurg, witchcraft, Wydevilles, York

Introduction ‘ ‘This is indeed a mystery’ I remarked.’ What do you think it means?’‘I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suite theories, instead of theories to suite facts.’ In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story A Scandal…
Medieval palace site at Lathom being excavated by group of military veterans….

Dec 2, 2017

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, genealogy

“Tudors”, archaelogy, Battle of Bosworth, Charlotte Countess of Derby, Civil War, Domesday Book, Henry VII, James Earl of Stanley, Lathom House, Marston Moor, military veterans, Richard III, Rupert, sieges, Thomas Lord Stanley

If you can stomach paragraph two of the article below (by Henry James) the rest is quite interesting! I have taken the precaution of copying the entire article because of a server problem that messed me around after a minute so. So I opened it again, copied, and it’s below, complete with link to the original. “A…
More’s cryptic reference explained?

Oct 20, 2017

anniversaries, genealogy

Constable of England, Henry of Buckingham, heraldry, high treason, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, King’s Council, Lord Protector of the Realm, Richard III, strawberries, symbolism, Thomas Howard, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas More

In his unpublished semi-satirical volume, More has the Lord Protector and Defender of the Realm, Richard Duke of Gloucester who was also Lord High Constable of England for life, call for some strawberries before the Constable’s Court could pronounce sentence on William Lord Hastings. Many historians have struggled to understand the significance of the strawberries…
Henry Tudor, Merevale Abbey, St Armel…and dear old Thomas Stanley….

Oct 12, 2017

battles, buildings, heraldry

Battle of Bosworth, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Merevale, Richard III, rose en soleil, St. Armel, symbols, Thomas Lord Stanley, treason, windows

After a comment by David, about suns in splendour and white roses in the window glass above (see his comment here ) I decided to investigate more about the window at Merevale Abbey. There is, of course, a boar in the window glass at Merevale. Well, more a pig than a boar, and it’s…
Stanley and the Stanley Knife

Sep 23, 2017

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, heraldry, humour

“Perkin”, Battle of Bosworth, Blore Heath, Elizabeth Wydeville, hardware, Henry VI, Henry VII, Islington, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Strange, philosophy, Richard III, satire, Sir William Stanley, Stanley knife, Stanleys, The history of Philosophy, Thomas Lord Stanley, treachery

They are sharp and good for purposes both fair and foul, and might even be handy for some back-stabbing (should one be of that disposition!) What am I talking about? The Stanley Knife. Jokes abound on certain medieval groups about these multi purpose knives being something that should have been invented by the two side-shifting,…
Interesting roots

Jul 23, 2017

genealogy, television reviews

“Tudors”, BBC, Catherine Pole, Clare Baldding, Danny Dyer, Earls of Derby, Earls of Huntingdon, Edward III, Ferdinando Stanley, Francis Baron Hastings, Frank Gardner, George Duke of Clarence, horse racing, Mary Stuart, royal descent, Sir Malcolm Bullock, The Derby, Thomas Lord Stanley, USA, Who do you think you are?

“Who do you think you are?” has returned and the third episode of the new series (20 July) featured Clare Balding. After last year’s programmes , this one and this other recent one, it is no surprise that tracing this racing presenter’s royal ancestry is a little easier. Clare’s great-grandmother was Lady Victoria (hence the middle…
Richard, the Stanleys and the Harringtons….

Jul 22, 2017

art

Battle of Bosworth, Hipshon, Hornby Castle, Richard III, Sir James Harrington, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, treachery

Well, I always knew the Stanley brothers were sh-1-ts (yes, I’m being relatively polite – that is a 1 not an i) and this article (link below) confirms my opinion. No doubt a lot of you will already know the story of the Harringtons’ struggle against the thieving self-interest of the Stanley brothers, Thomas and William,…
Was Lord Stanley present when Hastings was arrested….?

Jun 12, 2017

anniversaries

“Tudor” “sources”, Bertram Fields, Charles Ross, Chrimes, Clements Markham, conspiracies, Crowland Chronicle, Edward Woodville, Gairdner, Great Chronicle, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, high treason, John Morton, Mancini, More, mysteries, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Hancock, Richard III, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Rotheram, Tower of London, Wendy Moorhen

Tomorrow is the 534th anniversary of the council meeting in the Tower that culminated in the arrest of Hastings. There have always been inconsistencies in accounts of that day, but the one I am concerned with is whether or not that treacherous snake, Thomas Stanley, was present. You see, according to whose version one reads, at…
SIR WILLIAM STANLEY – TURNCOAT OR LOYALIST

Feb 15, 2017

anniversaries, battles

“Perkin”, Archbold, Battle of Bosworth, betrayal, Cheshire, crown, Edward IV, executions, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gairdner, hawthorn bush, Helen Maurer, Henry VII, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Chamberlain, loyalty, North Wales, Ramsay, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert Clifford, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Lord Stanley, Tower Hill, treason

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/26/sir-william-stanley-turncoat-or-loyalist/ It is well documented how, through the treasonable and treacherous actions of Sir William Stanley at Bosworth, Richard lost his crown and his life. He was hacked to death after Stanley, who brought 3000 men with him, intervened at the crucial point when Richard, with his household…
LORD OF THE NORTH

Dec 25, 2016

buildings

“Tudor” “sources”, AJ Pollard, Anne Sutton, Annette Carson, arbitration, Armstrong, Charles Ross, Council of the North, Dockray, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, elections, fishgarths, Fran, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gairdner, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Hicks, hunting, John Earl of Lincoln, John Kendall, John Morton, justice, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lansdale and Boon, Lawrence Booth, Long Parliament, Lord High Constable, Lord of the North, Lord Scrope of Bolton, Lord Slim, loyalty, Mancini, Middleham, Nevilles, offices, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Hammond, Piers Gaveston, Pontefract, Rachel Reid, Reformation, Richard III, riots, Robert Aske, Sandal Castle, Sandhurst, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sir James Harrington, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Peter de la Billiere, Sir Ralph Assheton, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir Robert Percy, Thomas Lord Stanley, William Langland, Winston Churchill, Woodvilles, York civic records, Yorkshire

Richard duke of Gloucester: courage, loyalty, lordship and law[1] “ Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality that guarantees all others.” (Winston Churchill 1931) Introduction I do not suppose…