The Feast’s first ever guest post! I’m feeling almost like a real blogger. Will Glover has contributed many interesting comments to my initial post on Margaret Nevill, Warwick’s illegitimate daughter, and has very kindly agreed to be my first guest blogger. Thanks, Will! Margaret Nevill (c. 1440 – 1499) What can be written about Margaret [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Marriage & the Nevills: Margaret Nevill & Richard Huddleston
Posted: November 25, 2011 in Margaret Nevill Huddleston, Marriage & the Nevills5
On this day: 25 November
Posted: November 25, 2011 in Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, On this day..., Yorks first protectorate1453 During the illness of Henry V!, and after a stirring speech by John Mowbray duke of Norfolk, Edmund Beaufort duke of Somerset was arrested on charges of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was released a little more than a year later after the recovery of Henry VI.
1499 Perkin Warbeck is hanged. Warbeck had claimed to be the younger son of Edward IV and drew many supporters. He made two attempts to unseat Henry VII and was eventually captured in October 1497. He was hanged after allegedly making an escape attempt from the Tower of London in company with Edward earl of [...]
On this day: 22 November
Posted: November 22, 2011 in Alice Fitzhugh, On this day..., Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick1428 Birth of Richard, oldest son of Richard Nevill & Alice Montacute, earl and countess of Salisbury. As this date is St Cecelia’s day, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Richard’s sister Cecily (who shared a wedding date with him) could have been his twin. 1503 Death of Alice Fitzhugh, widow of [...]
Rethinking (and refashioning) Maud Stanhope
Posted: November 20, 2011 in Gervase Clifton, Marriage & the Nevills, Maud Stanhope, Lady WilloughbyAll it takes, sometimes, is one well written and well referenced article and you find yourself staring at a pile of paper, realising that it’s a mountain of nonsense, or at least, not-quite-rightness. I did the best I could with the tiny snatches of information that I’d managed to glean, but then I came across [...]
On this day: 20 November
Posted: November 20, 2011 in Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, On this day...1492 Death of Anne Beauchamp, countess of Warwick, widow of Richard Nevill earl of Warwick and mother of queen Anne Nevill, wife of Richard III.
More on the archbishop’s enthronement feast
Posted: November 18, 2011 in George Nevill, Archbishop of YorkFrom Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii de rebus britannicis collectanea, vol 6, John Leland (nd). Available at Google Books. (You’ll want to type a ’2′ into the little box to get to the bit I’m going to talk about.) This is the document that all of those eye-widening, artery-clogging, heart-stopping lists of food consumed at Archbishop Nevill’s [...]
1455 Richard duke of York is appointed Protector and Defender of England for the second time. He relinquishes the protectorship in February the following year.
On this day: 15 November
Posted: November 15, 2011 in Margaret Nevill, Countess of Oxford, On this day...1506 Death of the last surviving child of Richard Nevill & Alice Montacute, earl and countess of Salisbury. Margaret Nevill was survived by her husband John de Vere, earl of Oxford. As far as I can ascertain, the couple had no children.
Twelve marriages, and not one of them a dud, from what I can see. Either the Nevills were extremely fortunate in their (or their parents’) choices, or they were just darn lovable! Happy, loving marriages aren’t easy to spot. It’s the bad ones that stand out. Of the partnerships listed below, there are no contemporary [...]
