BIOGRAPHICAL : OTHER, GENERAL Note: All Except Dukes and Duchesses of Burgundy Are Listed by Surname; Women Under Their Maiden Surname
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BIOGRAPHICAL : OTHER, GENERAL Note: All except dukes and duchesses of Burgundy are listed by surname; women under their maiden surname. Dukes and duchesses of Burgundy are listed under Burgundy. A WILLIAM ALNWICK, BISHOP OF NORWICH AND LINCOLN The Pre-episcopal Career of William Alnwick, Bishop of Norwich and Lincoln HAYES Rosemary C. E. Description: From People, Politics & Community in the Later Middle Ages, ed. J. Rosenthal & C. Richmond Date of publication: 1987 Synopsis: Alnwick’s career up to his appointment as Bishop of Norwich in 1426. JOAN OF ARC The Real Joan of Arc CASTOR Helen Description: From BBC History Magazine Date of publication: October 2014 Synopsis: Discusses the problems caused by the retrospective nature of all the extant testimony about Joan’s motivation in approaching Charles VII. JOHN ARGENTINE The Princes in the Tower and Their Doctor RHODES Dennis E. Description: From EHR, Vol. 77, No. 303 Date of publication: April 1962 Synopsis: Brief article pointing out that ‘Argentinus medicus’, identified by Mancini as the last of Edward V’s former servants to have remained with him, simply means ‘Doctor Argentine’ and not ‘a doctor of Strasbourg’ as interpreted by Mancini’s translator C. A. J. Armstrong. John Argentine, Provost of Kings RHODES Dennis E. Description: Booklet Date of publication: 1967 Synopsis: A study of John Argentine’s life and his library. B BALBUS Hieronymus Balbus in Paris ALLEN P. S. Description: From EHR, Vol. 17, No. 67 Date of publication: July 1902 Synopsis: The literary bickerings at the Sorbonne during the late fifteenth century are illustrated via the squabbles of two academic rivals, Guillaume Tardif and a young newcomer to Paris, the Venetian Hieronymus Balbus. BEAUCHAMP ANNE BEAUCHAMP, COUNTESS OF WARWICK Descent, Partition and Extinction: The Warwick Inheritance HICKS M. A. Description: From BIHR, Vol. 52, No. 126 Date of publication: 1979 Synopsis: Discussion of the division of the Countess’s lands between the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester ‘as yf the seid countes were nowe naturally dede’. Countess of Warwick’s Parliamentary Petitions regarding Her Lands VARIOUS Description: Extracts from BL Cotton MS Julius BXII; The Red Paper Book of Colchester ed. W. Gurney Benham; and The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) ed. C. Given-Wilson et al. Dates of publication: 1902 (Red Paper Book) and 2005 (PROME) Synopsis: Transcripts of the Countess’s petitions of 1472 and 1487 for the restitution of her lands, and a brief contemporary description of her petition of 1485. ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF WARWICK: See under Berkeley RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK ‘Entumbid Right Princely’: The Re-interment of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and a Lost Rite BUCKLE Alexandra Description: From The Yorkist Age: Proceedings of the 28th Harlaxton Symposium, ed. H. Kleineke & C. Steer Date of publication: 2011 Synopsis: Discussion of a seventeenth-century copy, discovered among the Harleian Manuscripts at the British Library, of the religious rites used for the reinterment of the Earl in 1475 on the completion of his chantry chapel in St. Mary’s church in Warwick. The Beauchamp Affinity: a Study of Bastard Feudalism at Work CARPENTER Christine Description: From EHR, Vol. 95 Date of publication: July 1980 Synopsis: Study of the Warwickshire followers of Richard Beauchamp as an example of how bastard feudalism worked in practice. [LIBRARY NOTE: Filed under Politics, Government and Administration] BEAUFORT EDMUND BEAUFORT, DUKE OF SOMERSET Somerset, York and the Wars of the Roses JONES Michael K. Description: From EHR, Vol. 104, No. 411 Date of publication: April 1989 Synopsis: Discusses the enmity between the dukes of York and Somerset. HENRY BEAUFORT, CARDINAL BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Cardinal Beaufort HARRISS Gerald Description: From Medieval History, Vol. 1, No. 1 Date of publication: 1991 Synopsis: Compares and contrasts Beaufort’s career with that of Cardinal Wolsey. At the Deathbed of Cardinal Beaufort McFARLANE K. B. Description: From Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke, ed. R.W. Hunt et al. Date of publication: 1948 Synopsis: Study of the Cardinal’s last will and his behaviour on his deathbed, and what these reveal about his financial dealings. HENRY BEAUFORT, DUKE OF SOMERSET Edward lV, the Duke of Somerset and Lancastrian Loyalism in the North HICKS M. A. Description: From Northern History, Vol. 20 Date of publication: 1984 Synopsis: Shows that, although Somerset submitted to Edward lV in 1463, he remained loyal to Lancaster. JOHN BEAUFORT, DUKE OF SOMERSET John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and the French Expedition of 1443 JONES Michael Description: From Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England, ed. R. A. Griffiths Date of publication: 1981 Synopsis: An analysis of the disastrous military command entrusted to Beaufort independently of York’s authority as king’s Lieutenant-General in France. MARGARET BEAUFORT, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND Lady Margaret Beaufort, the Royal Council and an Early Fenland Drainage Scheme JONES Michael K. Description: From Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Vol. 21 Date of publication: 1986 Synopsis: On schemes by Margaret Beaufort and other royal councillors to improve drainage in the Fens. Richard III and Lady Margaret Beaufort: A Reassessment JONES Michael Description: From Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law, ed. P. W. Hammond Date of publication: 1986 Synopsis: A re-appraisal of Margaret’s aims and actions during Richard’s reign by the co-author of The King’s Mother. [LIBRARY NOTE: To be copied] Lady Margaret Beaufort JONES Michael UNDERWOOD Malcolm Description: From History Today, Vol. 35 Date of publication: August 1985 Synopsis: Assessment of Margaret’s character and achievements. On Some London Houses of the Early Tudor Period KINGSFORD C. L. Description: From Archaeologia, Vol. 71, pp. 17-54 Date of publication: 1921 Synopsis: This article provides detailed information on the chambers and furnishings of four great London houses including Coldharbour, given to Margaret Beaufort by Henry VII. Kingsford’s information comes from extant accounts for the refurbishment Margaret carried out in the autumn of 1485. A transcript of the source document is in an appendix. [LIBRARY NOTE: Filed under Source Material: London Mansions] My Lady the King’s Mother PLOWDEN Alison Description: From Plowden’s Tudor Women Date of publication: 1979 Synopsis: Sympathetic account of Margaret’s life. The Lady Margaret RUSHFORTH M. K. Description: Typescript Date: Undated Synopsis: Hostile outline of Margaret’s life and character. On the Contracts for the Tomb of the Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby.... SCOTT Robert Forsyth Description: From Archaeologia, Vol. 66 Date of publication: 1915 Synopsis: A brief overview, plus transcripts of the contracts for the making of the tomb and grate and of other documents relating to the construction of the tomb. Politics and Piety in the Household of Lady Margaret Beaufort UNDERWOOD Malcolm G. Description: From Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 38, No. 1 Date of publication: January 1987 Synopsis: Discusses Margaret’s personal piety, charitable foundations and active support for the Crown. BEAUMONT ELIZABETH SCROPE, LADY BEAUMONT & COUNTESS OF OXFORD: See under Scrope. BERKELEY The Household Accounts of Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Warwick 1420-21 ROSS C. D. Description: From Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 70 Date of publication: 1951 Synopsis: Description of the Countess’ detailed records of expenditure on food, drink, etc.. [LIBRARY NOTE: Filed under Social History] On the Great Berkeley Lawsuit of the 15th and 16th Centuries: A Chapter of Gloucestershire History COOKE James Herbert Description: From Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, Vol. 3 Date of publication: 1878-9 Synopsis: A history of the property dispute between the Berkeleys and the Talbots, of which the Battle of Nibley Green in 1469 was the most violent expression. William, Lord Berkeley WATERS Gwen Description: From Richard III: Crown and People, ed. J. Petre Date of publication: 1985 Synopsis: First published in The Ricardian Vol 5, No. 68, March 1980. A study of William, Lord Berkeley, (d. 1496), dubbed by the Berkeleys’ 17th-century biographer, John Smyth, as ‘William Waste-all’. JOHN BLACMAN A Collector of Apocryphal Anecdotes: John Blacman Revisited LOVATT Roger Description: Chapter 9 of Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History, ed. Tony Pollard Date of publication: 1984. Synopsis: Defence of Blacman’s authorship of the Collectarium Mansuetudinem et Bonorum Morum Regis Henrici VI, and of the reliability of the work. Note: The book from which the essay is taken is also available for loan from the Non-fiction Books librarian. [LIBRARY NOTE: Filed under Biographical: Kings & Queens: Henry VI] WALTER BLOUNT Walter Blount was gone to Serve Traytours: The Sack of Ewaston and the Politics of the North Midlands in 1454 CASTOR Helen Description: From Midland History, Vol. 19 Date of publication: 1994 Synopsis: On the dispute between the Blounts and the Langfords and the light it sheds on the power vacuum in the North Midlands in 1454. SIR HENRY BODRUGAN alias TRENOWTH Sir Henry Bodrugan: The Wonderful Leap to Safety HENDERSON Charles Description: From the Western Morning News Date of publication: 15th December 1927 Synopsis: A newspaper article giving a good account of Bodrugan’s career, beginning with details from the account rolls of his manors and ending with his fabled leap from the clifftop into a waiting boat in 1486. Richard Edgcumbe and Sir Henry Bodrugan NATIONAL TRUST Description: Extract from guide book to the Edgcumbe’s house at Cotehele, Devon Date of publication: 1967 Synopsis: Short account of Edgcumbe’s adventures in 1483 to 1485, his pursuit by Trenowth (Bodrugan) after Buckingham’s Rebellion and the rewards he reaped after Bosworth. The Turbulent Career of Sir Henry de Bodrugan ROWSE A. L. Description: From History, New Series, Vol. 29 Date of publication: 1944 Synopsis: A biography of Sir Henry Bodrugan.