In Sir Richard Roos: Lancastrian poet, Ethel Seaton deciphers anagrams in Roos’s poems in order to piece together just who and what the poems were about. Now, I’m not at all sure I fully understand the process, nor am I entirely sure how sound this process is, but using these clues, she has attributed two [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Two poems possibly written for Maud Stanhope
Posted: January 30, 2012 in Gervase Clifton, Maud Stanhope, Lady Willoughby, Thomas Nevill0
Marriage & the Nevills: Robert, Thomas, Gervase & Maud – the director’s cut
Posted: January 28, 2012 in Gervase Clifton, Marriage & the Nevills, Maud Stanhope, Lady Willoughby, Thomas NevillGuesswork based on very little information can be fun… It can also lead you down totally erroneous pathways, but if you don’t have the information, how do you know? So, I have the information now and travelling the right path is going to be so much more rewarding than anything mere guesswork can provide – for [...]
1457 Margaret Beaufort, widowed countess of Richmond, gives birth at Pembroke Castle to her only child – a son, Henry. His father, Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, is the half-brother of Henry VI through their mother, Catherine of Valois. Edmund died of plague while a prisoner at Carmarthen Castle in November 1456. In 1485, after [...]
1486 Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
This book was supposed to have arrived by now. I have a post just about done. All it’s lacking is some stuff from this book. This is annoying me! The vendor tells me they posted it on 11 December and I should have received it well before Christmas. I didn’t…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
