‘He had such dignity in his whole person and in his countenance such charm that, however much they might feast their eyes he never sated the gaze of observers’. Domenico Mancini Edward V from the window at Coldridge Church, Devon. Despite the late historian Professor Helen Maud Cam opining rather harshly “I just do not understandContinue reading “EDWARD V – HIS LIFE PRIOR TO JUNE 1483”
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THE GELDERLAND DOCUMENT – ‘PROOF OF LIFE OF RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK’* ALIAS PERKIN WARBECK
*This is the title of a chapter from The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley. Without the aid of this invaluable book I would never have been able to write this post… The Gelderland Document is a unique, tantalising and quite astonishing document that was discovered back in the 1950s in the Gelderland ArchivesContinue reading “THE GELDERLAND DOCUMENT – ‘PROOF OF LIFE OF RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK’* ALIAS PERKIN WARBECK”
The Links That Bind – Reappraisals – Richard III, Edward V, the Herald’s Memoir, Coldridge/John Evans, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Thomas Grey and Gleaston Castle.
Could these images in Coldridge Church be of the same man? A young Edward V, an adult man whose face appears to show injury/disfigurement around the mouth/chin area and the face of the John Evans effigy which also seems to have a scarred chin? Photo thanks to John Dike, leader of the Missing Princes Project,Continue reading “The Links That Bind – Reappraisals – Richard III, Edward V, the Herald’s Memoir, Coldridge/John Evans, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Thomas Grey and Gleaston Castle.”