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februari 10, 2015 · 5:24 am

The Wars of the Roses/[From Susan Higginbotham ”In Their Own Words”/Letter of Richard III to His Mother, Cecily Neville Duchess of York

[Source: The Unpopular King: The Life and Times of Richard III by Alfred Owen Legge. The letter can also be found in Rosemary Horrox and P. W. Hammond, eds., British Library Harleian Manuscript 433. Gloucester: Richard III Society, 1979.]

 

This letter to Cecily, Duchess of York, was written on June 3, 1484. William Colyngbourne, named in the letter, later became famous for the treasonous rhyme, “The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel our dog / Ruleth all England under a Hog,” which he nailed to the door of St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 18, 1484. His chief offense, however, was to write to Henry Tudor to ask him to invade England. Colynbourne was tried and convicted in December 1484. For his execution, he was hung and cut down while still alive, after which his bowels were cast into a fire.

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· 5:15 am

The Wars of the Roses/[From Susan Higginbotham ”In Their Own Words”]/Letter of Edward, Earl of March and Edmund, Earl of Rutland, to their father Richard, Duke of York

[Source: Reprinted in Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England, by Caroline Amelia Halsted]

 

Edward and Edmund were the oldest living sons of Richard, Duke of York. This letter was written in the 1450’s, following the duke’s return to England from Ireland. Edmund, along with his father, died at the battle of Wakefield on December 30, 1460; Edward became King Edward IV.

 

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· 5:06 am

The Wars of the Roses/[From Susan Higginbotham ”In Their Own Words]/The Last Will and Testament of Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou’s starkly simple will, executed on August 2, 1482, is a vivid testament to her reduced fortunes at the end of her life. Here’s an excerpt from it, as translated into English by J. J. Bagley in his biography Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England:

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februari 9, 2015 · 12:34 pm

Ware Gezicht/Giftig, haatzaaiend en Islamofoob Metro schotschrift

NIEUW TE BOUWEN MOSKEE IN GOUDA
VERZET TEGEN DE ´´MEGAMOSKEE´´ DOOR ACTIECOMITE
´´GOUDA NOORD ZOALS HET HOORT´´
KLASSIEKE ARGUMENTEN
DE HUIZEN DALEN IN WAARDE
DAT WERD IN DE VS VAN VOOR DE BURGERRECHTENBEWEGING
OOK GEZEGD, ALS ZWARTEN ZICH WILDEN VESTIGEN IN EEN
´´BLANKE´´ BUURT
DAT WORDT IN DEZE TIJD GEZEGD ALS ASIELZOEKERS IN EEN DORP/
BUURT WORDEN GEHUISVEST
DEZELFDE DISCRIMINATIE/DEZELFDE UITSLUITING
RESULTAAT HAATZAAIERIJ VAN MENSEN, DIE STUKJES SCHRIJVEN
 ALS JAN DIJKGRAAF
MET NAZI SYMBOLEN BEKLADDE MOSKEE
DE ” WESTERSE WAARDEN” VAN JAN DIJKGRAAF
FOTO VS DRONES, DIE DOOD EN VERDERF ZAAIEN IN PAKISTAN
EN YEMEN

DE ”WESTERSE WAARDEN” VAN JAN DIJKGRAAF
TEEVEN VINDT REDDEN BOOTVLUCHTELINGEN GEEN TAAK EU
A Roma community is subjected to forced eviction in Marseille, France, July 2013.

DE ”WESTERSE WAARDEN” VAN JAN DIJKGRAAF/ETNISCHE

ZUIVERINGEN ROMA IN FRANKRIJK

A Roma community is subjected to forced eviction in Marseille, France, July 2013.

© Raphaël

”1, het Zondebokmodel

Roep iets uit tot een verschrikkelijke en interne vijand”

NAOMI WOLF: THE END OF AMERICA: TEN STEPS THAT CLOSE DOWN AN OPEN SOCIETY
Het komt niet vaak voor, dat er in zes regels een zo giftig en haatzaaiend
schotschrift [ik weiger dit een ”column” te noemen] wordt
neergepend als door Metro ”columnist” Jan Dijkgraaf, waarin hij
fulmineert tegen de bouw van een nieuwe Moskee in Gouda,
de zogenoemde ”Megamoskee” [1]
Dat de Metro dergelijke garbage opneemt is al tekenend en
past in het kader van dezelfde ”vrijheid van meningsuiting”, die
de racistische en Islamofobe schotschriften van Charlie Hebdo
verdedigt [2], maar dat is weer een ander verhaal.
ACHTERGRONDEN
VERDACHT VERZET TEGEN DE KOMST VAN  ”MEGAMOSKEE”
IN GOUDA

 

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februari 8, 2015 · 4:17 am

(Artikel Joke Kaviaar)/Wie radicaliseert er mee

WIE RADICALISEERT ER MEE

Opinie, gepost door: Joke Kaviaar op 07/02/2015 02:03:02

Als het aan Ivo The Oppressor Opstelten ligt, komt er een wet die “mensen die de nationale veiligheid bedreigen” een meldplicht oplegt. Er is dan nog geen bewijs voor concrete snode plannen, zelfs nog niet eens een vermoeden daarvan. In dat laatste voorziet namelijk al de terrorismewetgeving.

 

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· 4:08 am

The Wars of the Roses/[NevillFeast]/Marriage and the Nevills/Cecily Nevill and Richard, Duke of York

There has been a great deal written about Cecily Nevill. Google her (with the inevitable final ‘e’) and you’ll get nearly 98,000 results, most of them discussing her in relation to the men (husband, sons and brothers) in her life. She outlived all but one of her children, and spent thirty five years in widowhood. Two of her sons became kings of England, a granddaughter was queen, as she herself almost was.

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februari 7, 2015 · 3:37 am

The Wars of the Roses/Margaret of Anjou/She Wolf or not?/Comments on the article of Mr Gareth Rusell about Margaret of Anjou

 

File:Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York.jpg
RICHARD OF YORK, CLAIMANT TO THE ENGLISH THRONE
AND ONE OF THE MAIN LEADERS OF THE WAR OF ROSES

EDWARD PLANTAGENET, FOURTH DUKE OF YORK,
 SON OF RICHARD, THIRD DUKE OF
YORK, THE LATER KING EDWARD IV
[FICTION]

image

RICHARD NEVILLE, 16TH EARL OF WARWICK, THE KINGMAKER
COUSIN TO EDWARD IV, FIRST ALLY TO HIS FATHER, RICHARD,
DUKE OF YORK, THEN TO KING EDWARD IV
LATER THEY BECAME ADVERSARIES AND THE KINGMAKER TURNED
TO MARGARET OF ANJOU [BECOMING A ”LANCASTRIAN] TO RESTORE HENRY VI TO THE THRONE
HE FAILED AND LOST HIS LIFE IN THE BATTLE OF TEWKESBURY
HIS DAUGHTER, ANNE, LATER BECAME QUEEN OF ENGLAND,
MARRIED TO KING RICHARD III [BROTHER TO KING EDWARD IV]
[FICTION]
[WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK,
BOTH DESCENDANTS OF KING EDWARD III]
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]

WAR OF THE ROSES
SCENE AT THE TEMPLE GARDEN
RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, WEARING A
WHITE ROSE, TO CONFRONT
HIS POLITICAL RIVAL AND ENEMY,
EDMUND, BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF
SOMERSET, FORCING HIM TO
CHOOSE A RED ROSE
THE NOBLE LORDS TAKING SIDES
THIS IS A SHAKESPEARE SCENE [HENRY VI]
AND NOT BASED ON ANY HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE
KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]
MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]

TWO IMAGES OF MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
[FICTION]
 

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EDMUND BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF SOMERSET, FAVOURITE
OF MARGARET OF ANJOU AND BITTER ENEMY OF RICHARD,
DUKE OF YORK
[FICTION]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WARS OF THE ROSES/MARGARET OF ANJOU/SHE WOLF

OR NOT?/COMMENTS ON

Dear Readers,
Recently I read a very interesting article of Mr Gareth Russell
on his Blog ”Confessions of a Ci-Devant”
The article is titled:
23th MARCH, 1430, THE BIRTH OF MARGUERITE OF
ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND”
See for complete text of the Blog article below
 
Russel gives an interesting comment on Margaret of Anjou’s
historical and political role, challenging the villifying of
Margaret of Anjou.
I greatly agree with his view about Margaret of Anjou
, though he doesn’t emphasize 
clearly, that the Wars of the Roses was no struggle between
 ”ambitious claimants and magnates’ only, but had a legitimation
in it, since  Richard, Duke of York, had a better claim than the
Lancasters, as King Henry VI himself.
Understandable he wanted to fight for it, as understandable, that
Margaret of Anjou wanted to defend her son’s rights.
But fact stays, that York had more right to the throne.
Also it’s a pity that Russell doesn’t explain clearly
,in which way Margaret
of Anjou was villified and why it was villification at all.
In this comment I tell more over this villification and
give also my opinion on the question
Who was Margaret of Anjou
A She Wolf, A Saint or just a Brave Woman.
TRAVEL WITH ME TO THE PAST AGAIN
ENTER THE WORLD

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februari 6, 2015 · 5:03 am

The Wars of the Roses/[NevillFeast]/Battle of Blore Heath and the attainting of the Countess of Salisbury

 

 

23 September 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath

Here’s my notes for this battle:

• Salisbury on his way to Ludlow;

• Lancaster led by Audley and Dudley

• Salisbury chose a position at Blore Hill

• Lancster had to cross stream to attack

• Salisbury pursued them

• Dead – Audley;

• Taken – Dudley

 

– Thomas Nevill, John Nevill (& Harrington ?) possibly while seeking shelter/help for injuries

• Augustinian friar covers Salisbury’s withdrawal by firing cannon all night; when found next day, claims he did it to keep his spirits up.

And THAT’s why I’m a day late and getting later blogging this battle! Sometimes I think I should fire myself and hire a research assistant!

So, what I thought I’d do, rather than reach for my books and give you something more comprehensive and sensible about the battle itself, is talk about the involvement of Alice Montacute, countess of Salisbury.

I’ve mentioned before that she was attainted at the so-called Parliament of Devils, along with York, Salisbury, Warwick, Thomas and John Nevill, the earls of March and Rutland and a whole bunch of other people. The other wives were explicitly exempted from this, their personal wealth untouched and their safety not in question. They remained in England (or in the countess of Warwick’s case, Calais) able to get on with their lives, so far as anyone can whose husband and sons have been forced to flee the country or have been captured and imprisoned. Alice had to get herself gone fast.

Here’s the relevant section from the parliamentary rolls dealing with Alice.

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februari 4, 2015 · 4:43 am

Wees trots op Michiel de Ruyter/Michiel de Ruyter medeplichtig aan slavenhandel/Bagatellisering misdaad tegen de menselijkheid door Volkskrant schrijver

Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter, door Ferdinand Bol (1667)

 

MICHIEL DE RUYTER
MICHIEL DE ROVER
MEDEPLICHTIGE AAN SLAVENHANDEL

MICHIEL DE RUYTER ALS BEVRIJDER VAN BLANKE
”CHRISTENSLAVEN”/GOED WERK, MAAR TEGELIJKERTIJD
WERKTE HIJ HEEL PROFIJTELIJK MEE AAN DE DEHUMANISERING
VAN ZWARTEN TOT SLAVEN, DOOR ZIJN HAND EN SPANDIENSTEN
IN HET IN STAND HOUDEN VAN DE SLAVENHANDEL

ZO ZAG EEN SLAVENSCHIP ERUIT, DAT MENSEN ALS
VEE VERVOERDE
EN OP BETROKKENEN VAN DEZE SLAVENHANDEL ZOU
NEDERLAND ”TROTS” MOETEN ZIJN?
SLAVEN AAN BOORD VAN EEN SLAVENSCHIP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEES TROTS OP MICHIEL DE RUYTER/MICHIEL DE RUYTER MEDEPLICHTIG AAN SLAVENHANDEL/

BAGATELLISERING MISDAAD TEGEN DE MENSELIJKHEID DOOR VOLKSKRANT SCHRIJVER

”“De stank van het ruim was zo ondraaglijk vies dat het gevaarlijk was om daar enige tijd te verblijven en sommigen van ons hadden toestemming gekregen om aan dek te blijven voor frisse lucht.

De benauwdheid van het ruim en de hitte van het klimaat, gevoegd bij het aantal in het schip, dat zo overvol was dat elk van ons nauwelijks ruimte had om zich om te draaien, verstikten ons bijna. Dit leidde tot overvloedig transpireren, zodat de lucht spoedig ongeschikt werd om in te ademen.

De vieze lucht veroorzaakte een ziekte onder de slaven waar velen aan stierven, en zodoende slachtoffer werden van de zorgeloze gierigheid, als ik dit zo mag zeggen van hun aankopers. Deze ellendige toestand werd nog verslechterd door de ontvellingen van de kettingen, die nu onverdraaglijk werden en het vuil van de noodzakelijke tonnen waar de kinderen vaak in vielen en bijna verstikten. De kreten van de vrouwen en het gekreun van de stervenden maakten het geheel tot een afschrikwekkend schouwspel dat haast onvoorspelbaar was.”

EQUIANO [TOT SLAAF GEMAAKTE]

OVER DE OVERTOCHT NAAR ZUID AMERIKA

[”WEST INDIE”]

http://www.zeeuwseankers.nl/nl-NL/verhaal/530/een-slaaf-vertelt-over-de-slavenhandel

 

Soms is de werkelijkheid bizarrer dan de fantasie.

Want in mijn stoutste dromen had ik mij niet kunnen voorstellen,

dat anno 2015, 152 na de afschaffing van de slavernij [1] door de Nederlandse

Staat en 201 jaar na de afschaffing van de slavenhandel [2], in de Volkskrant

een artikel zou staan, waarin de slavernij wordt gebagatelliseerd.[3]

Dit in een poging het besmette verleden van de gemythologiseerde

Nederlandse ”zeeheld”, Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter [4], schoon te

praten.

 

Aanleiding voor dit merkwaardige Volkskrant artikel [5] is het

protest van de actiegroep ”Michiel de Rover” [6] tegen de film

”Michiel de Ruyter” [7], een, zoals al uit de aankondiging blijkt,

”epische historische avonturenfilm’ [8]

Terecht protesteert actiegroep ”Michiel de Rover” daartegen en

dat de Ruyter’s  besmette hand en spandiensten aan slavenhandel en

slavernij niet worden genoemd. [9]

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februari 3, 2015 · 1:35 pm

The Wars of the Roses/Causes of the Wars of the Roses/A travel to the past

File:Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York.jpg
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, 3RD DUKE OF YORK, CLAIMANT TO THE ENGLISH THRONE
AND ONE OF THE MAIN LEADERS OF THE WAR OF ROSES
[WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK,
BOTH DESCENDANTS OF KING EDWARD III]
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]

EDWARD PLANTAGENET, FOURTH DUKE OF YORK,
 SON OF RICHARD, THIRD DUKE OF
YORK, THE LATER KING EDWARD IV
[FICTION]

image

RICHARD NEVILLE, 16TH EARL OF WARWICK, THE KINGMAKER
COUSIN TO EDWARD IV, FIRST ALLY TO HIS FATHER, RICHARD,
DUKE OF YORK, THEN TO KING EDWARD IV
LATER THEY BECAME ADVERSARIES AND THE KINGMAKER TURNED
TO MARGARET OF ANJOU [BECOMING A ”LANCASTRIAN] TO RESTORE HENRY VI TO THE THRONE
HE FAILED AND LOST HIS LIFE IN THE BATTLE OF TEWKESBURY
HIS DAUGHTER, ANNE, LATER BECAME QUEEN OF ENGLAND,
MARRIED TO KING RICHARD III [BROTHER TO KING EDWARD IV]
[FICTION]

Sansa 1

ANNE PLANTAGENET, DUCHESS OF EXETER [MARRIED TO HENRY HOLLAND,
3TH DUKE OF EXETER], DAUGHTER OF THE DUKE OF YORK
[FICTION]
 
Ex 5
ANNE OF YORK’S HUSBAND, HENRY HOLLAND, THIRD DUKE OF EXETER, SON
IN LAW OF THE DUKE OF YORK, WHO BECAME A SOLID
LANCASTRIAN, PROBABLY ONE OF THE CAUSES OF
THE DIVORCE OF THE COUPLE
[FICTION]

WAR OF THE ROSES
SCENE AT THE TEMPLE GARDEN
RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, WEARING A
WHITE ROSE, TO CONFRONT
HIS POLITICAL RIVAL AND ENEMY,
EDMUND, BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF
SOMERSET, FORCING HIM TO
CHOOSE A RED ROSE
THE NOBLE LORDS TAKING SIDES
THIS IS A SHAKESPEARE SCENE [HENRY VI]
AND NOT BASED ON ANY HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE
KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]
MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
[HISTORICAL IMAGE]

TWO IMAGES OF MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
[FICTION]

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EDMUND BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF SOMERSET, FAVOURITE
OF MARGARET OF ANJOU AND BITTER ENEMY OF RICHARD,
DUKE OF YORK
[FICTION]
WILLIAM DE LA POLE, IST DUKE OF SUFFOLK, IN FAVOUR
BY BOTH QUEEN MARGARET AND KING HENRY VI
COUNCILLOR OF KING HENRY VI
HISTORICAL IMAGE
THE WARS OF THE ROSES/CAUSES OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES/A TRAVEL TO THE PAST
Dear Readers,
Much has been said about the Wars of the Roses, the English
civil war between 1455 till 1485 (although some let it end in 1471,
with the battle of Tewkesbury), when the main royal line
of the royal Lancaster House was finished by the death of
Edward of Westminster, son to King Henry VI], which nearly
exterminated the old English nobility.
Many colourful characters passed the bloody theatre, like the determined and hard
Queen Margaret of Anjou  [although not harder than the men
involved], her great adversary Richard, Duke of York, her favourites
And not to forget ”the golden boy” ‘Edward, the fourth Duke of York ,
Richard, Duke of York’s son, who later became King Edward IV, as his
”Kingmaker”, who would ultimately
 became Edward’s adversary and end so tragically  in the battle of Barnet.
I myself hold the opinion, that when King Edward would have concentrated
on the military (he was an extremely capable military commander)
 and the Earl of Warwick on
 ruling and diplomacy, they whould have been made a deadly double and perhaps
ruled England happily together, if at least Edward had not fallen ill and died
And last but not least, the pious and tragic King Henry VI, who,
alas, had a mental illness his tendency to forgiveness and
aversion of war and bloodshed, characteristics, which were admired
in Medieval women, but not in men, especiallynot Kings and
noblemen,  had to be brave warriors, as Henry VI’s father,
I want to focus in particular on the causes and events, that led to such a
disastrous period in English history and the end of the
impressive Plantagenet dynasty  [in fact also the end of Medieval England]
and the beginning of the also interesting Tudor dynasty.
ENTER THE WORLD
WHAT WERE THE WARS OF THE ROSES
Most people know, that the Wars of the Roses was a civil war in
England between the nobles of the two rival branches of the royal family,
the House of Lancaster [descended from John of Gaunt, third
son of King Edward III ,  the family line of King
Henry VI, and the House of York [with the Duke of York, descendant
of both Lionel of Antwerp , second son of King Edward III and
Edmund of Langley, fourth son of King Edward III.

 

IMPORTANT TO KNOW
The House of Lancaster and the House of York were
bothbranches  of the House of Plantagenet.
The Lancaster branch consisted of King Henry VI, descendant of John
of Gaunt [from his marriage with Blanche of Lancaster,
as the Beauforts [descendants of John of Gaunt
and his mistress, Katharine Swynford , whom he later married]
A very important member of the Beaufort family was Edmund Beaufort,
Duke of Somerset, later the bitter enemy of the Duke of York.
The price of the fighting?
The throne of England, of course, which both the Beauforts as
Richard, Duke of York claimed, especially after the  insanity of Henry VI showed
Through his mother, the Duke of York
had a superior claim to the throne, even above Henry VI, who
was descending of Henry IV, the usurper King , which I
will explain below.
But however dynastic rivalry played a role, is too simplistic
to point it out as a major cause of the War of Roses.
The major causes are more complicated

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