All About History

On 9th March 1892 novelist, poet and journalist Victoria Mary "Vita" Sackville-West was born to Lionel, 3rd Baron Sackville and Victoria Sackville-West - her parents were first cousins.

She married 1913 Harold George Nicolson of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and had issue.

On 7th March 1226 William Longespée [i.e. Longsword] Earl of Salisbury died aged fifty at Old Sarum; some said poisoned by
Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent.

Effigy at Salisbury Cathedral. Drawing from Thomas Hollis' 'Monumental Effigies of Great Britain'.

5th of March 1295 the English defeated the Welsh at the Battle of Maes Moydog.

𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀: "Arriving at night, he [Earl of Warwick] surrounded them on every side ... the earl, placing a crossbowman between two knights, and with the bolts of the crossbows striking down a great number ... "

#OTD 4th March 1903 Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, former lover of the late Oscar Wilde, son of the Marquess of Queensbury, and poet Olive Eleanor Custance were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square, in the presence of Edith Fox-Pitt (age 29) and Cecil Hayes.

On 4th March 1924 Jamaican Fanny Entwhistle aka Eaton died aged 88 at Acton.

During the latter half of the 19th Century, she appeared in the works of many artists including Walter Stocks, Simeon Solomon, Millais [back right with yellow headdress] and Rossetti.

See allabouthistory.co.uk/eVUb12jo

#OTD 4th March 1526 Henry Carey was born to William Carey and Mary Boleyn. Given that his mother was, or had been, a mistress of King Henry VIII, for which there is evidence, some speculate that he may have been the King's son though he was never acknowledged.

Paintings: Henry, William, King Henry.

#OTD 4th March 1522, at Cardinal Wolsey's York Place [Whitehall], the Chateau Vert Pageant was performed by ladies and gentlemen of the court including Anne and Mary Boleyn, King Henry VIII and his sister Mary.
Accounts include '8 cauls of Venice gold for the ladies' heads".
Image from 'The Tudors'.

On 4th March 1194 King Richard "Lionheart" of England, with his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, sailed from Antwerp on board the Trenchemer a month after he had been released from his captivity of just over a year. They arrived at Sandwich on 13th March.

For a sense of scale here is a photo by Wilfrid Alfred Green.

The Oxford DNB has the 12th March, as does a number of other sources. Am wondering what the source is for the 3rd?

Presaddfed Burial Chambers, Angelsey, as drawn in 1846 for the Archaeological Journal Volume 3 and 1862 for Archaeologia Cambrensis - bottom image.

#TombTuesday

Charter of 955 King Eadred to Ælfheah, his kinsman and minister; grant of 8 hides at Compton Beauchamp, Berks:

'... on þæt wide geat be eastan Welandes smi∂∂an'

'... to the wide gate east of Wayland's Smithy'.

On 3rd March 1765 the great antiquary William Stukeley died. He was first secretary of the Society of Antiquaries.

On 3rd March 1626 William Cavendish, 1st Earl Devonshire, died.

Monument to William and brother Henry at St Peter's Church, Edensor, on the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire, attributed to Maximillian Colt. Originally behind the altar the monument was moved to a chapel when the church was rebuilt.

On 3rd March 1539 Nicholas Carew of Beddington in Surrey was beheaded at Tower Hill for his part in the Exeter Conspiracy that aspired to replace King Henry VIII with his Catholic first cousin and childhood friend Henry Courtenay.

The evidence being his correspondence with Cardinal Reginald Pole.

3rd March 1323 Andrew Harclay was hanged, drawn and quartered at Carlisle for agreeing a truce with the Scots.

A year before he had captured the rebels at the Battle of Boroughbridge for King Edward II created him Earl of Carlisle.

Three months later King Edward agreed a truce with the Scots.

3rd March 1848 Edward Hawkins Cheney died. Hero of Waterloo.

Life size monument at St Luke's Church Gaddesby, Leicestershire, sculpted by Joseph Gott depicting him charging, his horse shot from under him.

1st March 1544 Anthony Knyvet was executed for his part in Wyatt's Rebellion; the attempt to prevent Queen Mary from marrying the Catholic Philip, the future King of Spain.
Nine years before Knyvet, Lieutenant of the Tower, refused to torture heretic Anne Askew as describe in Foxe's Book of Martyrs:

1st March 1328 an unpopular peace treaty with the Scots that included the marriage of Joan, sister of King Edward III with David, future King of Scotland, as described by Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke in my published translation.

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Translation of the Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GMD4Y3QV

A medieval chronicle tracing the rise and fall of the Norman dynasty from its origins through the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of England.

Our translation of 'Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes' available on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GPNDDJ3Z

14th-century vernacular chronicle by an anonymous chronicler from Valenciennes in Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and national history from about 1253 to 1366.

Yesterday, 25th October, was the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.

For fourteen Medieval accounts of the battle, including those of Jean de Waurin, Jean le Fevre of St Remy and the anonymous author of the Deeds of Henry V, who were present see:

allabouthistory.co.uk/otm3n5yt#otm3n5yt

#OTD 3rd July 1855 John Everett Millais, aged 26, and Euphemia "Effie" Gray, age 27, were married.

Her 6-year marriage with John Ruskin had been annulled a year before "by reason of [his] incurable impotency".

Millais' Biography: allabouthistory.co.uk/D49E5E9m

#pre-raphaelite
#preraphaelite

On 3rd July 1842 #photographer Godfrey Bingley was born.

Following his retirement aged 42 he took up #photography. He left us with many early photos of prehistoric and historic sites.

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This little memorial, possibly grave, at St Katherine's Church, Rowsley, #Derbyshire, of the five men who were killed during the Haddon Tunnel Collapse on the 2nd of July 1861.

The tunnel under the Haddon Hall estate remains but is closed to people and traffic.

#HaddonHall

#OTD 2nd July 1848 Henrietta Cole Countess de Grey died aged 64. Monument at the De Grey Mausoleum, Flitton, Bedfordshire sculpted by Terence Farrell.

For more photos of the Grey family monuments at Flitton see allabouthistory.co.uk/sHj684g8

#churchmonuments

On 1st July 1638 Edward #Mosley died unmarried aged 68. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove, #Staffordshire.

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#churchmonuments

#OTD 1st July 1961 #Diana, Princess of Wales, was born to John, 8th Earl Spencer and Frances Ruth Roche at Park House, Sandringham Estate.

She would have been sixty-four today.

#OTD 1st July 1897 poet Edward Wyndham Tennant was born. Killed twenty years later during the Somme.

"Slim poplars in the breeze,
Great tan-brown hares in gusty March
A-courting on the leas.
And meadows, with their glittering streams—and silver-scurrying dace—
Home - what a perfect place!"