This Club is sponsored by the Richard III Society but it is an open forum for anybody interested in Richard III, The Wars of Roses and the later Medieval period generally.
Richard III lived and reigned during the Fifteenth Century. Therefore, this is a place where we discuss not only Richard himself but the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries as a whole. Events which affected Richard in his lifetime and shortly before and the consequences and aftermath of his brief reign.
This Forum is for the sole purpose of topics of historical interest.
Ah, yes, now Lander's not denying that Warwick was using the illegitimacy claim in 1469 in order to put Clarence forward for the ththrone. His argument is that
I've found the reference now, which cannot of course be counted as evidence, but it seems indicative of what was going on: There's a reference in Calmette et
... Could you possibly, Annette? I probably wouldn't have thought that much of it when I read it in your book as I have only recently read Lander's article.
Marie - I believe that there was a contemporaneous report by a foreign ambassador (?French) about Clarence being adopted as heir at the readeption - I thought
... Hi Pamela, The golden rule was that a woman should not lose status by marriage - she might gain it but could not lose it. Jacquetta continued to be Duchess