As you may know, he moves on to the early Hanoverians on Monday. Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father, killed by a cricket ball. How does this...
Have just finished watching the series, "Secrets of the Inquisition", released by Nomad Distribution (Australia) in October. The narrator is Canadian actor,...
About a year ago we had some good discussions about Zeitgeist. While watching the 'Secrets of the Inquisition' series, I felt great anger toward both the...
while we can not truly crawl into the mind and era, we can however have a greater understanding of an era and how the people lived their lives or ruled others...
in 1619 george buck recorded excerpts from a letter eliz had written to duke of norfolk, ric iii's friend. eliz stated she could not wait for queen anne to...
Wow. who knows? What I could see is that Elizabeth Woodville, having promised e of y to Henry Tudor, could have cast aspersions on Richard both to discredit...
not wanting to sit idle..i went surfing again and turned up some answers. http://www.r3.org/bosworth/texts/legends_princess.html what is interesting at the...
I'm sure there were many who might try to spread disinformation re: marriage to e of y simply to present Richard as a blackguard. If there was such a ploy, it...
it looks as if perhaps the portuguese connection is quite strong and may have even played a very strong role in the urgency of h7 invading and conquering...
I'm wondering if there are any records of the Earl of Lincoln's baby son Edward? John was married to Margaret FitzAlan in 1482 so presumably the baby was born...
... and may have even played a very strong role in the urgency of h7 invading and conquering richard. ... portugal connection and what role it may have played...
... I think Edward has been discussed on the forum before. He appears to be a 'mistake' in one of the published genealgies. In other words, sadly, he does not...
Interesting that we are only now getting around to studying other countries' archival accounts of issues relating to our area of interest. While reading Norman...
... =============================== And Henry VII involved himself and family with the Trastamaras twice over: Catherine of Aragon for son Arthur (and...
CORRECTION..I WROTE 1484 AS THE DATES LISTED BELOW ..THEY SHOULD BE 1485. eliz of york and her mother, siblings and aunt catherine stafford, nee woodville were...
thank you marie, any hints/leads or clues you may be able to provide will be greatly appreciated. via wikipedia, i've just learned the offical portuguese...
We often figure that anything worth finding would have been found by now. When we think this way we have to remind ourselves that Mancini didn't show up until...
She was also regent while her father Afonso "el Africano", and her brother Joao were in Africa. She refused three offers of marriage, including Richard, and...
... now this is all interesting stuff - im wondering though - wouldnt the royal doctors at that time have been able to spot if someone was dying from...
See J.A-H's article "The Lancastrian Claim to the Throne" a few years ago, showing the Tudors were insignificant compared to the Spanish and Portugese. As I...
I used the term 'Iberian' rather than 'Spanish' or 'Portuguese', since the latter entities were not fully formed until the end of the fifteenth century....
The Tudors had a tremendous amount of good luck in the fifteenth century. They were pretty much 'hayseeds' when compared even to minor nobility. There is no...
Here's the posthumous portrait of John of Gaunt. He claimed the throne of Castile in right of second wife, Costanza of Castile. Note that the third-quarter of...
Sorry, I misspoke. The inset in the shield within the garter is the full arms of Castile and Leon. John's kid brother, Edmund of Langley, married Princess...
... Vatican ... Indeed. Within the past few decades, an original manuscript of one of Thomas More's treatises on the nature of faith has been found stuffed ...
Here's a link to John of Gaunt's descendants: http://www.royalist.info/execute/biog?person=6 Note that Gaunt's daughter Isabella (by Blanche of Lancaster)...
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