The Dublin King: The True Story of Lambert Simnel and the Princes in the Tower by John Ashdown-Hill

Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780750963169
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

Notes

Abbreviations

CPR

Calendar of Patent Rolls

ODNB

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

PROME

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3.

2. Edward IV’s maternal grandmother, Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, was the sister of Margaret Beaufort’s grandfather.

3. John Morton, ODNB.

PART 3

1486–1487

10

Evidence from England

According to Adrien De But’s chronicle, on 5 October 1485, when John Morton, Bishop of Ely (who was then on his way back to England) reached Calais, he heard that the recently enthroned king, Henry VII (whom, however, De But prefers to call simply ‘the Earl of Richmond’), had been killed – together with some of his barons – by a sudden outbreak of plague:

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