Blood Sisters (53 page)

birth of Prince Edward, 43–6

and Cecily Neville, 31, 43–4, 62

character, 35

childlessness, 34–5

daisy emblem, 81

her death, 174–5

defeat and Henry VI’s deposition, 71–3, 77–8

entry into London, 15–16

estates, 18–19

finances, 39–40

and Henry VII’s accession, 252

her household, 21

and Lancastrian opposition, 88–9, 92–7, 103, 109–11, 116–22

marriage, 11–16, 31

and matchmaking, 34

poverty, 13, 15, 94–5, 174–5, 305

as queen, 18–23, 33–4, 37–40, 47–52, 58–60, 64, 66, 68–9, 137, 175, 180

renunciation, 138–9

sexual accusations, 45–6, 51–2, 60, 66

and Suffolk’s banishment, 37

Mariona (laundrywoman), 7

marteaux, 126

Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, 105–6, 147–8, 150–1, 162, 164, 166

her death, 171, 199–200

Mary, Queen (‘Bloody’ Mary), 338

Mary, Queen, 195n

Mary, Queen of France, 288, 295, 305, 310, 325, 327–8, 329n, 331, 333, 338

Mary, Queen of Scots, 142n, 327n, 338

Mary of Guelders, 66–7

Mary of York, 98, 143, 168–9

Massy, Alice, 257

Matilda of Hackenborn, 160

Maundy Thursday, 272

Maxey, 41, 202

Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, 151, 162, 166–7, 171–2, 200, 280, 283, 291, 298, 321

Medici, Catherine de’, 46

Meno, Pregent, 289

Mercers’ Company, 232

Merchant Adventurers, 167

Merton Priory, 158

Michelangelo, 335

Middleham Castle, 82, 133–4

Milan, Duchess of, 13

Milford Haven, 237

Mirror of Gold for the Sinful Soul
,
The
, 333

Mirror of the World
,
The
, 167

‘mixed life, the’, 159–60, 319

Molinet, Jean, 201, 222

Mondrot, Bernard de, 157

More, Thomas, 44, 86–7, 89, 154–6, 295, 312

and Princes in the Tower, 201, 207

and Richard III’s accession, 181, 184–5, 188, 190–3, 199

Mortimer, Roger, 37

Mortimer’s Cross, battle of, 71

Morton, John, Bishop of Ely, 188, 191, 205, 208, 220–2, 251, 288

Mowbray, Anne, 152–3, 156–7, 168

muscatel, 318

musicians, 273

Mylling, Abbot, 113, 129

Naples, 12

Nattres, James, 310

Nene, river, 142

Nesfield, John, 215

Neville, Anne

her coronation, 196–7, 265

and Duke of York’s reburial, 144

early life, 49, 53, 82–3, 119, 121

and Elizabeth of York, 224

illness and death, 224–6, 229–32

marriage (Prince Edward), 109–11, 115–16

marriage (Richard III), 132–4, 218, 225

as queen, 201, 267

and Richard III’s accession, 183, 187, 196–9

and son’s death, 218–19

Neville, Bishop George, 71, 83

Neville, Isabel, 53

Neville of Raby, Lord, 187

Newport, 58

ninepins, 126

Norfolk, Katherine Neville, Duchess of, 99–100

Norfolk, Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of, 153, 156

Norfolk, John Howard, Duke of, 226

Norman Conquest, 25, 90, 242

Northampton, battle of, 64, 78

Norwich, 34, 107

Nottingham, 236, 238

Observants, 319

Orléans, Duke of, 16

Ormond, Earl of, 260, 288

Oxford, Countess of, 264–5

Oxford, Earl of, 99, 222, 237, 241

Oxford University, 322

Parker, Henry, 212, 292, 331

‘Parliament of Devils’, 62

Parron, William, 310

Paston, John, 102, 108, 131, 133

Paston, Margaret, 56, 61

Paston, Margery, 34

Paston, William, 272

Paston letters, 38, 47–8, 51–2, 99, 128

patronage, 97, 167, 170

Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, 228, 308

Pembroke, 53, 55, 58

Pertriche, John, 274

Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 171–2, 200, 261, 283, 287, 295, 300, 315, 325–8

Pietro di Milano, 14

piracy, 59

plague, 54, 300

Plymouth, 302

Pole, Sir Richard, 275

Pontefract, 141, 200

Popplau, Nicolaus von, 210

Portchester, 11

Portugal, 95, 230, 289

privacy, demand for, 128

Privy Seal, 51, 185

psalms, 81

Queen’s Wardrobe accounts, 40

Queens’ College, Cambridge, 97, 144, 322–3

Raglan, 308

Ratclyff, 220, 231

Reading Abbey, 90

Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne
,
The
, 303

Reginald the idiot, 293

religious enthusiasm, 159–61, 163–4

René, Duke of Anjou (King of Sicily), 12, 15, 17, 20, 121, 138–9

Rennes Cathedral, 212

Richard II, King, 25–6, 28, 180

Richard III, King

accession, 175, 179–98

and Anne Neville’s death, 229–33

and battle of Bosworth, 239–43

and Buckingham rebellion, 205–7, 211

and Clarence’s execution, 154

his coronation, 196–7, 265

and Duke of York’s reburial, 141–2, 144–5

early life, 44, 70, 81, 83

and Edward IV’s French expedition, 137

and Elizabeth of York, 224–9, 231–6, 253

as king, 199–201, 218–19, 222

marriage, 131–4, 218, 225

murder accusations, 6, 120, 133, 154, 207–10, 229, 233

and Princes in the Tower, 201–3, 207–10, 215–17, 219, 229, 252–3, 307

and son’s death, 218–19

and Tudor threat, 211–15,

217, 219–22, 225, 234,

236–8

and Warwick rebellion, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120

white boar emblem, 220

Richmond, 303–5, 310, 312–13, 325–6, 328–30

Rivers, Elizabeth, Countess, 127, 265

Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl, 70, 85, 100, 107

Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl, 101–2, 112, 116, 125, 129, 152–3, 167, 170, 180, 309

his arrest and execution, 183–4, 188, 190, 195, 232

Rivers, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl, 221

Rochefort, Guillaume de, 209

Rockingham Forest, 142

Rome, 165

Romsey, 260

Roos, Mary, 269

Rotherham, Thomas, Archbishop of York, 185, 191, 229

Rouen, 15, 29–31, 35, 38, 93, 115, 193

Rous, John, 133–4, 229, 243

Roxburgh, 66

Roye, Jean de, 157

Rozmital, Leo von, 97

Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, 29–30, 61, 67, 79, 140

St Agatha, 57n

St Agnes, 57n

St Albans, first battle of, 49–50

St Albans, second battle of, 68–70

St Anne, 147

St Anthony the hermit, 153

St Barbara, 57n

St Bridget of Sweden, 160–1, 168, 269

St Catherine of Alexandria, 57n

St Catherine of Siena, 160

St Cecilia, 57n

St Christopher, 286

St Colette, 147

St Erasmus, 167

St George, 169, 272–3

St John, Sir Oliver, 26

St John’s College, Cambridge, 323

St Katherine, 286

St Leger, Thomas, 80, 146

St Malo, 172

St Margaret, 52, 57n, 95

St Margaret of Antioch, 147

St Matilda, 286

St Michael’s Mount, 289

St Michel-sur-Bar, 96

St Nicholas, 42

St Paul’s Cathedral, 303

St Paul’s Cross, 192

St Peter, 189n

St Stephen’s Chapel, 153, 173

St Thomas à Becket, 34, 164

St Waudru, 147

Salazar (mercenary), 240

Salic law, 47

Salisbury, Alice, Countess of, 62

Salisbury, Richard Neville, Earl of, 49, 67

sanctuary, 184, 189n, 190, 212, 214–16, 258, 289

Sandal Castle, 66

Sandwich, 106, 138

Scala Perfectionis
, 269

Scales, Ismanie, Lady, 69

Scarborough, 283

Scott, Sir Walter, 24

Scrope, Lord, 128

Segovia, 52n

Severn, river, 120, 205, 308

Shaa, Dr Ralph, 192–3, 195

Shakespeare, William, 17, 61, 67, 121, 150, 231, 334

and battle of Bosworth, 238, 242

and Marguerite of Anjou, 11, 14, 22, 37, 175

and Richard III, 133, 208, 231, 242

Sheen, 126, 131, 186, 273, 288, 292

Sheriff Hutton, 215, 234, 253

Shore, Jane, 131, 156, 173, 188, 191–2

Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 20, 155

Shrewsbury (Talbot) Book, 20

Sicily, 12, 15

Simnel, Lambert, 258, 260–2, 277, 282–3, 298

Simons, Richard, 261

Skelton, John, 62, 331

Skinners’ Fraternity, 121

Skyp (fool), 293

Smithfield, 101–2

Somerset, Eleanor Beauchamp, Duchess of, 38, 45

Somerset, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of, 26–7

Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of, 27, 32–3, 35, 38, 40, 48–51

Somerset, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of, 67, 78, 93, 104

Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of, 104, 120, 122

Somerset, Edmund Tudor, Duke of, 295, 301

Somerset, John Beaufort, 1st Earl of, 26–7

Somerset Herald, 306, 313

Southwark jail, 112

Stafford, Elizabeth, 308, 310

Stafford, Henry, 58, 79, 109, 122, 134–5, 207, 335

Stallworthe, Simon, 187, 191

Stanley, Thomas, Lord,
see
Derby, Thomas Stanley, Earl of

Stanley, Sir William, 238, 242, 284

Star Chamber, 191

Stillington, Bishop Robert, 156, 187, 192

Stoke, battle of, 260, 263

Stonor, Elizabeth, 145

Stonor, Sir William, 99, 187, 191

Stony Stratford, 86, 183

Stow, John, 146, 202, 311, 330

Stuke, Henry, 267

succession, rights of, 194

Suffolk, Alice Chaucer, Duchess of, 22, 37–8, 45, 80, 121, 146

Suffolk, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 29, 80, 90, 98–9, 116, 145–6, 153, 165, 168, 198