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A recurring feature on medieval people who, to my great relief, are not called Edward, Richard, Elizabeth, or Margaret. Part Two – Antigone of Gloucester and her (possibly half) brother Arteys de Cursey.They are the only two known children of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, the younger brother of Henry V and Protector of England during…
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A recurring feature on medieval people who, to my great relief, are not called Edward, Richard, Elizabeth, or Margaret. PART ONE – Ismanie Whalesburgh, Lady Scales As a medieval researcher of 15th century women, it’s always refreshing to come across someone who is not called Joan or Eleanor or Margaret/insert name of whoever was queen…
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Or at least a motorcoach Back in 2020 I was one of a number of members of the Richard III Society of Canada who had planned a group outing to Stratford to see a new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, with Colm Feore in the title role and Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino directing. Unfortunately, Covid…
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Recently, while researching late Fifteenth Century Musicology, I came across the following quotation from 1442: ‘…the said dame Isabel on Monday last past did pass the night with the Austin friars at Northampton and did dance and play the lute with them in the same place until midnight, and on the night following she passed…
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Sometime in the late 1460s the chronicler William Worcester, in the Annales Rerum Anglicarum, reported that “In the month of January Katherine, Duchess of Norfolk, a girl of eighty years old, was married to John Widevile, brother of the Queen, age 20 years, a diabolical marriage.” (Mense Januarii Katerina, ducissa Norffolchiæ, juvencula ætatis fere iiijxx…
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This past Sunday (29 August) saw the anniversary of the Treaty of Picquigny, signed 546 years ago, between Edward IV of England and Louis XI of France. Edward had hoped to emulate the success of his forebears during the Hundred Years War by gloriously invading France and taking back territory once held by the English…
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