Clifford Castle in the Welsh Marches
A tale of an indigestible meal, a royal standoff, a famous royal mistress and a rough seduction. And this insignificant little ruin is all that’s left to tell the tale….
Category: Historic Research
A Court of Betrayal: Treason in the Mortimer Household.
An Irresistible Subject. Johane de Geneville was an heiress, inheriting extensive lands in Ireland, in France, as well as in the Welsh Marches, including the magnificent fortress of Ludlow…
The Appeal of Living in Mortimer Country
Living in Pembridge in the Welsh Marches, enjoying the rural pleasures of pastures, gentle hills and woodland, as well as the eye-catchingly beautiful black and white villages, it is impossible…
An Audacious Escape: Roger Mortimer’s Flight from the Tower of London.
Seven hundred years ago, on the first day of August in 1323, Roger Mortimer, the 1st Earl of March, one of the most notorious men in English medieval history,…
Celebrating Valentine’s Day: Was this a Mortimer Love Token?
A Frivolous Valentine Post! Four years ago in 2020 a ring was found on farmland near Wigmore, below the ruins of the once mighty Wigmore Castle, by a…
Who Were The Pastons?
To Celebrate The Royal Game. A Tale of Courage and Resilience. Of Power and Danger. The Fabulous Pastons The Pastons were to be found living in Norfolk in the…
Twelve Facts you should know about Elizabeth Mortimer, Lady Percy
(And much that we do not know) Elizabeth was born in 1371 in one of the Mortimer castles in the Welsh Marches, probably in Usk where Roger her eldest brother…
Anne O’Brien in The Times Review
As part of the excitement for the publication of The Shadow Queen, Anne was featured in a wonderful piece in The Times where she chooses her Six Best Queens. What…
Epitaph of Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales
Edward’s title, the Black Prince, frequently used in history, was not found in evidence until the Tudor period, and so it would be wrong to use it to assess either…
Is this the real Joanna of Navarre?
Historical paintings: Authenticity v. Drama This is a painting of Duke Arthur III of Brittany, painted by the French artist Henriette Lorimier and exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1806…
“Elizabeth Plantagenet, a Lost Medieval Princess”
Who was Elizabeth Plantagenet? How did a royal medieval princess come to be buried in the lovely rural church of Burford in Shropshire? Elizabeth Plantagenet, a Lost Medieval Princess In July…
Medieval Contraception
Medieval contraception – a hit and miss affair. How effective were medieval methods of contraception, when practised by women, to limit the number of unwanted pregnancies? How widely were such…
