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KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
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KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
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KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
KING EDWARD IV, SON OF RICHARD, DUKE OF
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DUKE RICHARD, THE 3RD DUKE OF YORK (3), HEIR TO
The she-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France
Whose tongue more poisons than an adders tooth
How ill beseeming it is in thy sex
To triumph like an amazon trull”
(Henry VI Part 3)
St Albans and its significance
The first battle of St Albans represents a landmark in the dispute between York and Lancaster; not as the first battle of a civil war, since it was not that, or as their biggest or bloodiest battle, since it was not that either. Its importance lay in the fact that it represented the ultimate expression of York’s change of tack from being the king’s champion to being the realm’s champion.
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How now? Is Somerset at liberty?
Then, York unloose thy long-imprisoned thoughts
And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
(Shakespeare: Henry VI part 2)
On his return from service in Normandy, duke Richard was the king’s true liegeman and an obedient servant of the Lancastrian establishment: or so it seemed. If he blamed the government for his enormous debts incurred on the king’s service, he did not show it. If he resented the preferment of John Beaufort and two other Lancastrian earls, he did not show it. If he was angry at the loss of Anjou and Main as part of the queen’s marriage settlement, he did not show it. In fact his reticence was a remarkable display of sangfroid in the face of his worsening financial, dynastic and political situation. Whether this reflected his true feelings or not is doubtful. Although there was now a fracture in his bond of loyalty to the Lancastrian government, he could not afford a public show of pique. He was politically weak and only harm could come to him from making a fuss now. Discretion is indeed the better part of valour; York was keeping his own counsel and biding his time.
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On the 10th of October 1460, Richard Plantagenet 3rd duke of York walked into Westminster Hall wearing the full arms of England undifferenced. After a moment, he put his hand on the empty throne. When asked if he wished to see the king, he replied “I know of no one in the realm who would not more fitly come to me than I to him”. With those words, he declared to all those present that duke Richard had finally renounced his allegiance to king Henry VI and claimed the English crown by right of strict inheritance. York’s motive has puzzled historians ever since. Was it really his ‘natural disposition’ to champion the public interest, or was it the notion that he was the rightful king all along that stirred his ambition? This is the first of three essays in which I hope to explore that question from a personal perspective. I should add for the avoidance of doubt, that I have no intention of considering the validity duke Richard’s title: that is for another time. Neither is this a potted biography; I have included a few details of what I believe are some relevant friction points in his life for purely contextual reasons.
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HOE MEN, VLUCHTEND VOOR IS, ZIJN DOOD VINDT AAN DE GRENS MET EUROPA
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On January 1, 1327, Queen Isabella, having executed her enemies and imprisoned her husband, King Edward II, turned her attention to much smaller matters: Hugh le Despenser the younger’s little daughters. On that day, the queen issued an order that Eleanor le Despenser be packed off to Sempringham, a Gilbertine priory in Lincolnshire, and veiled as a nun “without delay.” A similar order sent Margaret to Watton, another Gilbertine priory in Yorkshire. Coming just a few weeks after the brutal execution of the girls’ father and the imprisonment of their mother, the queen’s orders completed the unraveling of the privileged existence these girls had enjoyed.
Hugh le Despenser had left four sons and five daughters behind him. Isabel, the oldest of the girls, was about fourteen. She had been married as a child to Richard Fitzalan and thereby escaped her younger sisters’ fate.
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GESCHIEDENIS VAN HET ISRAELISCH-PALESTIJNSE CONFLICT/BRIEF AAN WIKIKIDS
OVER TENDENTIEUZE EN MISLEIDENDE INFORMATIE
AAN TEAM VAN WIKIKIDS
Onderwerp: ONJUISTE EN TENDENTIEUZE INFORMATIE IN
UW RUBRIEK ”ISRAEL”
”ISRAEL”
AAN HET TEAM VAN WIKIKIDS
Geachte heer/mevrouw,
Verontwaardiging, verbijstering en ontzetting maakten zich
van mij meester bij het lezen van uw kennisbank voor kinderen
jongeren over de geschiedenis en de hedendaagse situatie in Israel.[1]
Uw rubriek varieert van onjuiste historische beweringen, pure
geschiedvervalsing tot
vage en onduidelijke informatie tot pure Israelisch-zionistische
indoctrinatie en denigrerend neo koloniaal taalgebruik.
Het staat, eerlijk gezegd, zo bol van de onjuistheden en het verdedigen
van Israelische [oorlogs]misdaden, dat ik niet weet, waar te beginnen
of te eindigen.
Mijn betoog pretendeert dan ook niet, uw hele rubriek door te
lichten.
Wel zal ik er enkele zaken uitlichten, die mij het meest gestoord hebben.
Hierbij zal ik u voor alle duidelijkheid, citeren.
Verder zal ik mijn betoog opdelen in Deel I [tot 1947] en Deel II
[”Onafhankelijkheid” en na 1948]
DEEL I
”ISRAEL”/GESCHIEDENIS
TOT 1947
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