treason

Meet the Brownes

Feb 18, 2024

battles, buildings, genealogy, law, sources

Anne Boleyn, Battle of Northampton, Calais, Edmund de la Pole, Edward IV, elizabeth countess of worcester, Elizabeth Despenser, elizabeth paston, executions, fines, george browne, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, kentish rebellion, lucy neville, Merciless Parliament, paranoia, Richard III, Sir Anthony Browne, sir thomas browne, Tewkesbury, Thomas Penn, tong castle, treason, william fitzwilliam

Sir Thomas Browne (abt. 1402-1460) was a fervid Lancastrian. This is no doubt the reason that after the Battle of Northampton, he was either beheaded or hanged, drawn and quartered. (Sources differ). He was found guilty of High Treason, a bit of a stretch given that Henry VI was still King at the time and…
Death in Drogheda: Thomas Fitzgerald, 7th Earl of Desmond

Feb 15, 2023

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion, sources

“Perkin”, Anglo-Norman lordships, Annals of the Four Masters, Anne Butler, Annette Carson, archers, attainder, bigamy, Burkes of Clanricarde, coyne and livery, Dame Elizabeth Corbet, de Burghs, Dictionary of Irish Biography, dispensations, Drogheda, Earls of Desmond, Earls of Kildare, Earls of Ormond, Edward IV, Edward Plunkett, Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth Wydeville, Ellice Barry, executions, Fitzgeralds, Henry II, Henry V, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Lionel of Antwerp, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Maurice Fitzgerald, Nesta of Wales, Pale, Peter Spring, Piltown, pre-contract, Ricardian, Sir John Butler, Sir Roland FitzEustace, South Munster, Statute of Kilkenny, Tadhg King of Thomond, The Book of Howth, The Ricardian, treason, William Shirwood

FAMILY BACKGROUND The FitzGeralds of Desmond traced their descent from Maurice FitzGerald, son of Gerald of Windsor and the Welsh princess Nest. The original Norman conquests were confined to the eastern parts of Ireland, and the Anglo-Norman lordship as created by Henry II was based on a clear division of authority between this area and…
Thomas Seymour, Princess Elizabeth and hanky-panky….

Nov 18, 2022

anniversaries, buildings

Admiral Thomas Seymour, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, executions, Mary I, Sudeley Castle, Suzannah Lipscomb, treason

Was Thomas Seymour guilty of any hanky-panky with his young stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth (to become Elizabeth I)? Well, yes, I don’t think there’s any doubt of that, but there has to be doubt about the extent of the hanky-panky. She was very young, around thirteen, and he was thirty-eight, so it certainly wasn’t runaway youthful…
St. Philip Howard and the greyhound in the Tower

Jun 28, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion

4th Duke of Norfolk, Anne Dacre, Armada, attainder, attempted exile, Catholicism, Church of England, dysentery, executions, Father Edmund Campion, Father Robert Southwell, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Jesuits, John Foxe, Lady Mary Fitzalan, martyrs, Philip Howard Earl of Arundel, restoration in blood, saints, treason

Philip Howard, lived from 1557-1595. He was the only son of Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk by his first wife, Lady Mary Fitzalan who was, of course, the Arundel heiress. Philip’s father was executed for treason against Queen Elizabeth I in 1572, which explains why Philip was not allowed to succeed as Duke of…
WAS LAMBERT SIMNEL A TUDOR HOAX?

Jun 5, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, law, religion, sources

“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, AF Pollard, age, Arthur “Tudor”, attainder, banquets, Barrie Williams, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of StokeStoke, Bermondsey Abbey, Bernard Andre, Book of Howth, Cheneygates, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Christopher Urswick, Coldridge, Convocation of Canterbury, coronations, council meeting, David Baldwin, Earl of Kildare, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gordon Smith, Harleian Manuscript, Henry VII, heralds, House of York, imprisonment, Ireland, Jean Molinet, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Lincoln, John Morton, John Yonge, Lambeth Palace, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Michael Barrett, Michael Bennett, Old St. Paul’s, Oxford University, Piel Island., Polydore Vergil, Randolph Jones, re-legitimisation, Reginald Bray, revolutions, Richard Fox, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Robert Markenfield, Robert Stillington, Sheen, Sheriff Hutton, Sir John Evans, T.B. Pugh, The Dublin King, The Heralds Memoir, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, titles, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, treason, Wenceslaus Holler, Westminster Abbey, William Simmonds

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com ‘So rude a matter and so strange a thinge, As a boy in Dublin to be made a kinge..’ * Old St Paul’s where the tragic Edward Earl of Warwick was displayed in February 1487 and with ‘Lambert Simnel’ on the 8 July 1487. ‘Old St Paul’s Cathedral Seen…
WILLIAM CATESBY, GOOD GUY, BAD GUY, TRAITOR? THE CLUES IN HIS WILL

Nov 8, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, sources

Ashby de la Zouch, Battle of Bosworth, bigamy, Crowland Chronicle, Daniel Williams, Elizabeth Lady Latimer, Elizabeth St. John, Francis Viscount Lovell, George Lord Strange, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, illegitimacy, JA Roskell, King’s Council, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Logge Register, Lord Scrope of Bolton, Margaret Zouche, Peter Hancock, pre-contract, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard III, Robert Catesby, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Thomas Cardinal Bourchier, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas More, Tower of London, treason, William Catesby, William Colyngbourne, William Lord Hastings, wills, Wydevilles

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI sparkypus.com Brass of William Catesby, Ashby St Ledgers Church. Commissioned by William’s son in 1507. Date of death 20th August is incorrect, predating Bosworth, perhaps in an attempt to cover up his inglorious end. Note the damage across the neck. Photo Aidan McRae Thomas Flkir As no doubt can be seen…
Two butchers, an archer and a “bourgeois of Tournai”….

Sep 7, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion

“Perkin”, archers, Belgium, Blaybourne, butchers, Cecily Duchess of York, DNA evidence, Edmund of Langley, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Ghent, Hainault, Henry IV, Henry Somerset Earl of Worcester, Henry VII, illegimacy rumours, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Gaunt, John Sperhauk, Leicester University, Lionel of Antwerp, Phillippa of Hainault, pre-contract, re-legitimisation, Richard III, Taunton, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, Tournai, treason, Y-chromosome

“….Consider, for example, the case of John Sperhauk, which came before King’s Bench in April 1402. The plea roll record opens with the memorandum of his confession taken on 13 April by the coroner of King’s Bench, before the king and ‘by [his] authority and command’. In this confession, Sperhauk admitted to publicly repeating allegations…
The living Henry VII married the late Mary of York….!

Oct 30, 2020

anniversaries, battles, law, religion

coronations, Edward III, Henry VII, Mary of York, Riuchard III, royal marriages, treason

“….Edward III’s great-great-grandsons then fought in the 15th century War of the Roses which put infamous King Richard III on the throne…. “….Henry VII eventually took over from him, backed by his marriage to Mary of York, and produced Henry VIII, who created Protestantism via the 16th-century reformation….” The above is an extract from this…
Today in 1441….

Oct 27, 2020

anniversaries, religion

cartoons, Eleanor Cobham, executions, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, Margery Jourdemayne, Roger Bolingbroke, Smithfield, treason, witchcraft
An unusual witchcraft case in Ipswich

Sep 9, 2020

anniversaries, law, religion

Ancient House, Buttermarket, Cornhill, Eleanor Cobham, executions, haunting, Henry VI, Ipswich, Lakeland Plastics, Margery Jourdemayne, Mary Lackland, treason, witchcraft

Originally posted on Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society: Mary Lackland, or Lakeland, was burned on the Cornhill on 9th September 1645 but why? The heresy laws had been repealed in 1558/9 although they were invoked later, up to 1612/3. This execution took place at the peak of the Matthew Hopkins witch mania but those…