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Debunking the Myths (6) – Did he plan to marry his niece?

May 17, 2025

culture, Events, history, medieval characters, medieval life, Richard III

Anne Neville, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII, Joana of Portugal, marriage, Richard III, TB, tuberculosis

This is the sixth You Tube video that the Richard III Society has posted, debunking some of the myths regarding Richard. They are quite short, between five and just over ten minutes long. This is the sixth one:
WHARRAM PERCY – A DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE – VICTIM OF THE ‘ENCLOSURES

Oct 9, 2023

archaeology, buildings, religion, sources

deserted villages, enclosures, Harrying of the North, Hiltons, John Rous, leprosy, malnutrition, More, Percies, plague, Richard III, rickets, Spofforth Castle, St. Martin’s, tuberculosis, Utopia, Wharram Percy, William I, Yorkshire Wolds

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com A glimpse of St Martin’s church from the millpond looking north. This wonderful photo thanks to David Ireland. ‘It may not be liefull for euery man to vse his owne as hym lysteth, but eueyre man must vse that he hath to the most benefyte of his countrie. Ther must…
Pandemics through history….

May 19, 2022

anniversaries, culture, Science

Albert Victor Duke of Clarence, Anne Neville, Anne of Bohemia, Black Death, covid 19, Edward of Middleham, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, medicine, pandemics, plague, pneumonia, Richard II, Richard III, smallpox, Spanish ‘flu, tuberculosis, vaccination

For the last few years we’ve been beset by a pandemic. COVID-19 is the new blight on the block, and has set about knocking us down like ninepins in spite of antibiotics and even immunisation. But modern medicine has done a lot to standing up to the silent menace. In times gone by folks…
THE DEATH OF HENRY VII

Apr 21, 2019

anniversaries, battles, religion, sources

Arthur “Tudor”, Battle of Bosworth, Clifford Brewer, death, death masks, diseases, Francis Bacon, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Fisher, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, Reformation, Richmond Palace, Thomas Penn, tuberculosis, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-death-of-henry-vii/ Henry VII on his deathbed : Wriothesley’s Heraldic Collection Vol 1 Book of Funerals. c Unknown artist’s impression of Tudor being crowned in the aftermath of Bosworth.. It must have seemed surreal to him as he wandered through the dead kings apartments at Westminster that had now,…
Seeking the Real Duke of Clarence

Oct 21, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, sources

alcoholism, Ankarette Twynho, Anne Neville, Barnet, Bromham church, Buckingham rebellion, charisma, disloyalty, Edward IV, executions, fiction, George Duke of Clarence, Hicks, insanity, Isabel Neville, John Thursby. Sir Roger Tocotes, propaganda, puerperal fever, Richard III, stereotypes, Tewkesbury, Towton, tuberculosis, Warwick

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Richard III’s brother, George of Clarence. You know the one–typical ‘middle child’, ‘false fleeting Clarence’, the one drowned in Malmsey who was also a drunk and quite possibly insane, hanging, as he did, old ladies on the vaguest of suspicions. And I began considering–is George, like Richard, maligned,…

tuberculosis

Debunking the Myths (6) – Did he plan to marry his niece?

WHARRAM PERCY – A DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE – VICTIM OF THE ‘ENCLOSURES

Pandemics through history….

THE DEATH OF HENRY VII

Seeking the Real Duke of Clarence