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.
Hi, Susan - Well, then, evidently the unfortunate countess's jointure was also set aside as (from memory) the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury went to
The Countess of Warwick indeed had a jointure interest in her husband's lands. In her letter to Parliament written while she was still at Beaulieu Abbey, she
... Well, I will have a try, but I'd not like to be examined by a true proficient, as Anne Elliot said. Dower was a common law provision for a widow, usually
Well, since you address the question to me, I feel I can't dodge it (!) but once again I can only comment in a general sense since I don't know whether there