January 2024 – A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI

‘The Passing of Eleanor’ – artist’s impression of the funeral cortège of Eleanor of Castile watched over by her grieving husband, Edward I. Artist Frank Salisbury, 1910 (1). ‘Pray for our consort, who in life, we loved dearly, and, dead, we do not cease to love….’ Edward Ist in a letter to the Abbot ofContinue reading “THE ELEANOR CROSSES – TWELVE OR FIFTEEN?”