11
Jun
11 JUNE 1509
Wedding of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII at the Franciscan church at Greenwich.
Tags: Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon
11
Jun
11 JUNE 1915
RIII Memorial Stone, Leicester Cathedral
David Guy Barnabas Kindersley, stone-carver and type designer, was born in Codicote, Hertfordshire, on 11 June 1915. Among his work is the Richard III Memorial Stone, which used to be in Leicester Cathedral. The stone is now on loan to the King Richard III Visitor Centre,which also allows access to Richard’s original grave
In the Ricardian Bulletin of December 1982 Jeremy Potter in his AGM report said the following:
“The Leicester Memorial Stone, carved by David Kindersley, dedicated in August, was not a Society project, but that of the Rev T.C.Hunter-Clare; however the Society was glad to have been able to contribute and had much appreciated the dedication service.”
At the previous year’s AGM he said: “The Society had made an initial small donation and a larger later one”.
Around this time the Leicester Statue fund was wound up and it was agreed the residue would be used for special projects “such as the Leicester Cathedral Memorial and Fotheringhay Chapel.”
More information on David Kindersley: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituariesdavid-kindersley-1571426.html and on Dottie Tales.
Dorothea Preis
Tags: Leicester, Richard III
11
Jun
11 JUNE 1456
Birth of Anne Neville, younger daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘The Kingmaker”) and Anne Beauchamp, at Warwick Castle. She was later the wife of Richard III.
Tags: Anne Neville
8
Jun
8 JUNE 1492
Death of Elizabeth Woodville at Bermondsey Abbey. Her will indicates that during her last years she lived in relative poverty. For her funeral she was accompanied by four people, one of them Edward IV’s illegitimate daughter Grace. Her coffin was taken quietly from Bermondsey to Windsor Castle, where she arrived in the middle of the night by just a single priest and a clerk without any formalities. She seems to have been interred virtually immediately next to Edward IV.
Bibliography: David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2002. ISBN 0 7509 3886 2, pp. 123-125
Tags: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville
8
Jun
8 JUNE 1476
Death of George Neville, Archbishop of York. He was the fourth and youngest surviving son of Richard Neville, fifth earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), and Alice Montagu (c.1406–1462). His eldest brother was Richard, earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”). His interest in learning and association with learned men is thought to have been a strong influence on Richard, duke of Gloucester.
Tags: Nevilles
3
Jun
3 JUNE 1162
Thomas Becket consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Tags: Church
31
May
31 MAY 1495
Death of Cecily Neville (mother of Edward IV and Richard III) at Berkhamstead Castle, Hertfordshire. She was buried with her husband Richard and son Edmund at St Mary and All Saints Church, Fotheringhay.
31
May
31 MAY 1443
Birth of Margaret Beaufort, daughter and heir of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset (1404–1444), and Margaret (d. 1482), daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
She was an influential supporter of her son Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.
Tags: Henry Tudor, Margaret Beaufort
30
May
30 MAY 1445
Coronation of Margaret of Anjou in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was performed by the archbishop of Canterbury, John Stafford.
Source: ODNB on Margaret of Anjou
Tags: Margaret of Anjou
27
May
27 MAY 1541
Margaret Pole is executed at the Tower of London. Margaret was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, and thus Richard III’s niece.
She was born on 14 August 1473 at Farleigh Castle, Somerset. She lost her mother when she was three years old and her father two years later. She and her brother Edward were then in the care of her uncles, first Edward IV and then Richard III. While her brother was executed in 1499, she was married to Sir Richard Pole and they had five children. She and her children remained steadfast Catholics during the Reformation. In December 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified her, her feast day is celebrated on 28 May.
Tags: George of Clarence, Henry VIII
