Thomas Walsingham
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OK, before another word I will confess to the “sin” of pouncing on a remark spotted at random online. The site in question is https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2010/08/question-from-aoife-other-queens.html, the subject witchcraft in high places, and the point that caught my eyes concerned Bishop/Archbishop/Cardinal John Morton’s apparent little sideline: “….Margaret Beaufort’s pal was John Morton, alleged to have been…
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I have been reading a very interesting article from the Journal of Medieval History by E. Amanda McVitty, called False knights and true men: contesting chivalric masculinity in English treason trials, 1388-1415. (Vol. 40, No. 4, 458–477) There is an old saying that one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and by the…
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In the above illustration I do believe the illustrator has endeavoured to create the real Abbot Wheathampstead (also Whethamstede), baldness and all, if the lack of hair around the ears is anything to do by. My interest in St Albans has hitherto been concerned with the 14th century, specifically the time of Abbot Thomas…
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I have just read in Margaret Aston’s excellent biography of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor, that according to Walsingham (always a fount of truth, of course) when Sir John Arundel, 1st Baron Arundel, died at sea in December 1379, among his lost belongings “were fifty-two new suits”. This, it seems, led one…
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Well now, are we to believe the horrific tale related at Medievalists.net? Or should we regard it as yet another malicious work of imagination from Thomas Walsingham. Let’s face it, Walsingham was venomous and untruthful to a fault. The nastiest type of tale-teller. Which leaves me disinclined to believe that Sir John Arundel was guilty…
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Prompted by the opinions of two friends on what they thought of certain historians, I thought it would be interesting to see which are named by those who read Murrey & Blue. So, ladies and gentlemen, who is your favourite/most loathed historian (alive or dead), and why? My choice takes me back to the 14th/15th…
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How and why the House of York laid claim to the throne….
Adam of Usk, Anne of Bohemia, Ashburnham House, Blanche of Lancaster, British Library, British Museum, Chandos Herald, Charters, Chris Given-Wilson, Cotton Library, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Mortimer, Edmund of Langley, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, English Historical Review, entail mail, Eulogium, France, Good Parliament, Havering atte Bower, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry V, Isabella de Valois, Isabella of Angouleme, Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt, Lionel of Antwerp, male line, Michael Bennett, Penny Lawne, Phillipa of Ulster, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Roger Mortimer, Romford, Salic Law, Scotichronicon, Sheen, Simon Sudbury, Sir Richard Stury, succession, Thomas of Lancaster, Thomas of woodstock, Thomas Walsingham, Wars of the Roses, willsHere is an article from English Historical Review, 1st June 1998, telling of how and why Richard, 3rd Duke of York, laid claim to the throne of England. The root cause was an entail to the will of Edward III, who was admittedly in his dotage at the time. The entail, which excluded a female…
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Murrey and Blue interviews Michael K. Jones
“The King’s Mother”, “Tudors”, Aquitaine, BBC History Magazine, Castile, Chandos Herald, chivalry, Crecy, David Baldwin, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Enrique of Trastamara, France, Froissart, Henry of Knighton, Henry VI, Henry VII, Hundred Years War, interviews, Jean II, John Gower, John of Gaunt, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Lionel of Antwerp, Lords Appellant, Malcolm Underwood, Michael K Jones, Military tactics, Mortimers, Najera, Pedro I, Poitiers, Polydore Vergil, propaganda, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Richard III, siege of Limoges, St. John’s College Cambridge, Thomas Brinton, Thomas Walsingham, tyranny, Wars of the Roses, Westminster Hall, YorkistsWhich of the Black Prince’s military achievements is the most impressive and why? The main attraction in writing a biography of the Black Prince was to bring to life his martial exploits, for Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward III, captured the imagination of fourteenth century Europe. The chronicler Jean Froissart described him…
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