Upon this, the before-named Thomas, seeing that his side was clearly threatened with ill success, and that the present day was likely to prove far from a propitious one for him, followed the advice of…
After these transactions, the king made a speedy voyage with the troops and fifteen hundred ships, and landed at the harbomr of Chef de Caux, at the moul£i of the river Seine whence he proceeded…
INGULPH’S HISTORY OF THE ABBEY OF CROYLAND. As I, Ingulph, by the long-suffering of the Diyine Goodness, abbat of the monastery of Croyland, am bound, by virtue of the duties imposed upon me, to devote…
John, Lord Wenlock, was active as a soldier, administrator and politically from his election as constable of Vernon in 1422 until his death in the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4th May 1471. Wenlock’s early service…
Lambert Simnel was a boy who became the figurehead of a Yorkist attempt to overthrow King Henry VII. It was claimed that he was Edward, Earl of Warwick, the son of George, Duke of Clarence.…
Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the throne of England. Born in Tournay, claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. From 1492 until his execution in 1499 Warbeck…
Sir Griffith Vaughan (Vychan) was a Welsh Burgess who lived until 1447. Legend has it that Vaughan was one of the Welshmen who saved the life of King Henry V during the Battle of Agincourt,…
Sir Thomas Vaughan is best known for being one of the men who were executed on the orders of Richard III in April 1483. In his sixties at the time of his execution, Sir Thomas…
Sir James Tyrell was named in Sir Thomas More’s History of England as being the man responsible for the murder of the Princes in the Tower. More’s account states that Tyrell confessed to having murdered…
Owen Tudor was born on the Island of Anglesey c1400. His family had standing within the Welsh nobility and it is possibly due to that standing that he was able to gain employment within the…