Three Estates
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The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”
“Tudor” propaganda, Bethnal Green, books, Charles II, dental evidence, Edward V, Elizabeth Roberts, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, identification, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Joy Ibsen, Leicester dig, mtDNA evidence, pre-contract, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, The Private Life of Edward IV, Three Estates, Westminster AbbeyThis is less a book and more of an outdoor swimming pool, becoming deeper as the chapters progress. In the shallow end, the subjects go from the definition of a “prince” and the circumstances under which Edward IV’s elder sons came to live there, centuries before Buckingham Palace was built to the origin of the…
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This site provides the text of Titulus Regius in full – in understandable English! Worth a look.
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It was not the first time that a Convention Parliament had effectively determined the succession. We might look, for example, the precedent of 1399, when just such an assembly deposed Richard II and (in effect) elected Henry IV, who was not even Richard II’s right heir. (He was the heir male, but strangely enough did…
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UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/18/crosby-place-home-to-the-duke-and-duchess-of-gloucester/ The arms of Richard III in Crosby Hall On June 5th 1483 the Duchess of Gloucester arrived in London and joined her husband at Crosby Place (1). She had left both her small son and and home at Middleham to join her husband, who had been staying…
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Significant opportunities missed?
Archbishop Cranmer, attainder, Bath and Wells, bigamy, Bishops, books, David Baldwin, deprival, Durham, Edward IV, Edward V, Ely, Exeter, exile, Gairdner, Hugh Pavy, John Morton, John Shirwood, Lionel Woodville, Peter Courtenay, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Salisbury, St. David’s, Thomas Langton, Thomas Wolsey, Three Estates, treason, William DudleyRobert Stillington is likely to have been born in about 1420 and was consecrated as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465. As we know, in spring 1483, he confessed his knowledge of Edward IV’s bigamy. Based on Stillington’s evidence, the Three Estates voted to cancel the coronation of Edward V, inviting Richard…
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CAN A PICTURE PAINT A THOUSAND WORDS?
“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Neville, art, Baynard’s Castle, Catherine Howard, Cecily Duchess of York, Edward V, Edwin Austin Abbey, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Jane, John Everett Millais, John Morton, Margaret of Salisbury, Paul Delaroche, Philip Calderon, portraits, propaganda, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Shakespeare, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Three Estates, Tower GreenUPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/can-a-picture-paint-a-thousand-words-ricardian-art/ It’s said a picture can paint a thousand words. It certainly can but not always accurately. It can distort the truth. Art work based on the Ricardian period is certainly true of this. Take for example the stunning painting by Edwin Austin Abbey, Richard Duke of Gloucester…
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I confess to not knowing that Edward V coins had ever been minted. There doesn’t really seem to have been time to have reached that point. However, as it’s clear they were coined and distributed, I have cause to consider the implication. We have the old, old story that Richard was a dastardly, murderous uncle…
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There are some very good biographies of Edward IV, by the likes of Pollard, Ross, Kleinke and Santiuste but surely none have tracked his movements, sometimes month by month, like this book does. This is not a full biography and it does not claim to be, but focuses on Edward’s romantic life – his known…
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