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The HANDSOME Duke of Burgundy….?

Jan 15, 2022

anniversaries, art, genealogy, humour

annulment, Archduke Philip, Arthur “Tudor”, blue eyes, Catherine of Aragon, cloth, consummation, Dukes of Burgundy, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, executions, fair hair, Habsburgs, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Joanna the Mad, Kings of Castile, Malus Intercursus, marriages, mediaeval canon law, storms, treaties

At the moment I’m trawling around medieval rulers in Europe. And lo! I’ve come upon this gentleman: His contemporary likenesses aren’t much better, so why was he called Philip the Fair/Handsome? Was it tongue-in cheek? If you look through the various recreations of him in this link below, if they’re even halfway accurate you can…
Come into my parlor said The Spider…

Jul 14, 2016

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Basil Rathbone, Charles Laughton, Charles Ross, Charles the Bold, Charles VII, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Francois Villon, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Louis XI, Margaret of Anjou, Paul Murray Kendall, Picquigny, Richard III, Sir Walter Scott, treaties, Victor Hugo

One of the most intriguing and, let’s face it, entertaining characters in all of Ricardian history must be King Louis the Eleventh of France – known to history by his sobriquet The Spider. Others may cite Margaret Anjou or Henry Tudor as a deeper thorn in the flesh of King Richard the Third but surely the…