Wendy Moorhen
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Completing the Set (2006) – Henry VIII’s other “wives”
“wives”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Blanche of Lancaster, Catherine de Valois, Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, Edward I, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, John Ashdown-Hill, John of Gaunt, Ricardian, Ricardian Bulletin, Richard of Salisbury, Royal Marriage Secrets, Wendy Moorhen{as adapted from the Ricardian Bulletin: December 2006} Introduction The Ricardian article The Lancastrian claim to the throne (John Ashdown-Hill, 2003) showed Henry’s relationship to Catherine of Aragon, both descended from Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt. Genealogical conundrums (Wendy Moorhen, 2006) illustrated the descent of Anne Boleyn, her first cousin…
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Archbishop Octavian and the Simnel Plot
“Lambert Simnel”, Annales, Archbishop Octavian, benefit of clergy, Chancellor of Ireland, Dalkey, denialists, Dublin, Earl of Kildare, Earl of Ormond, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, forgery, Fowey, Henry VII, Innocent VIII, Ireland, James Gairdner, James Ussher, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Lincoln, John Morton, Kenilworth Castle, Lambeth Palace, Latin, letters, Mario Sughi, Matthew Lewis, More, Old St. Paul’s, pardons, Richard Fox, Robert Ware, Rymer, Simnel rebellion, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir James Ware, Sir Richard Edgecumbe, The Dublin King, University College Cork, Walter Harris, Wendy Moorhen, William or Richard SymondesA couple of months ago, this post attracted a reply from an individual who has commented before. He was responding to the suggestion that the boy crowned in at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin (see illustration opposite) may actually have been Edward V rather than an earl of Warwick (false or otherwise). Whilst he is…
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Was Lord Stanley present when Hastings was arrested….?
“Tudor” “sources”, Bertram Fields, Charles Ross, Chrimes, Clements Markham, conspiracies, Crowland Chronicle, Edward Woodville, Gairdner, Great Chronicle, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, high treason, John Morton, Mancini, More, mysteries, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Hancock, Richard III, Thomas Lord Stanley, Thomas Rotheram, Tower of London, Wendy MoorhenTomorrow is the 534th anniversary of the council meeting in the Tower that culminated in the arrest of Hastings. There have always been inconsistencies in accounts of that day, but the one I am concerned with is whether or not that treacherous snake, Thomas Stanley, was present. You see, according to whose version one reads, at…
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