I suspect she had a captivating personality, which does not necessarily go with great beauty. As far as Lynom is concerned, Richard's reaction seems like a...
I agree with Richard. Jane need not have been a great beauty. Allegedly Cleopatra, another famous enchantress, was not beautiful (at least not according to...
Eileen ... Ann: I had the sense from Richard's famous note that when he asked the Bishop to delay the marriage until he, Richard, arrived in London, that...
... Yes, come to think about it I think Richard is probably right - it brings to mind that other famous mistress nearly two hundred years later, Nell Gwynn,...
And Wallis Simpson was no oil painting, either, yet Edward VIII gave up the throne for her. ... brings to mind that other ... renowned for her ... his famous...
Greetings from a rainy and hot Florida I am researching the Cerne Abbas Giant, you can see it here: http://www.catnip.co.uk/cerne/ All that you read about the...
As someone who lives near the giant, all I can say is never believe all you find on the internet. As far as I am aware no one knows who first made the giant...
Ah, the Cerne Abbas Giant, my once and maybe future neighbour in Dorset. Now we're onto a good topic. I'm not going to get going on this subject, but I do...
A few years ago they used whitewash to mark where the cloak would have been, to examine the possibility of the Hercules connection. Don't recall the severed...
... all you find on the internet. As far as I am aware no one knows who first made the giant or why? He is first mention in 18th century but he may be as old...
Greetings from Florida I've researched the Cerne Abbas Giant for about two years - this I can say for certain. It is pure, and incredibly complex symbolism,...
... concept of the market town and the Cistercian literacy that is still embedded in the local culture) both lead to the white monks as well. I just mention...
Hello eileen, I suspect Cerne Abbas was a training and staging area for the Templars. The training in the mystic ways (for lack of a better term) was conducted...
I agree ... From: Paul Trevor Bale <paul.bale@...> To: richardiiisocietyforum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, 6 July, 2008 11:33:08 AM Subject: Re: [Richard...
My favourite day of days in the Ricardian calendar, the day Richard and Anne were crowned King and Queen in what has been described as the most magnificent and...
Greetings from Florida In 1183 Richard III's older brother, Henry, died and Richard III becomes heir to the throne! But he decides to take up the cross and go...
... becomes heir to the throne! But he decides to take up the cross and go on a crusade instead, which leaves his brother John in charge of the kingdom. ... ...
... becomes heir to the throne! But he decides to take up the cross and go on a crusade instead, which leaves his brother John in charge of the kingdom. ... ...
No I am correct the 12th Century Richard III heir to the throne, went on a crusade with the Templars c 1183. You are speaking of the 14th century Richard III....
James, England had only one Richard the Third and he lived in the FIFTEENTH century only. The King who reigned from 1189-99 was Richard the FIRST. I suspect...
... train - despicable ... She did- it was Richard's way of making peace, poor man. And she probably started plotting even before that. I can easily imagine...
maggie was plotting from the day her son h7 was born...:-) it is even rumoured that h6 told h7 when he was a child that one day he would wear the crown of...
... Well you know with some mums only the best will do for their boys ;-) Seriously though - I do believe Richard had no option other than to take the throne,...
Templars and 12th Century Richard I vs Richard III Greetings from Florida If there was an error in my naming Richard - I'd like to correct it. I had no reason...
the sort of connection between richard iii is that richard was born at about the beginning of the era we know as the renaissance. it would have influenced his...