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Often have I been to it,
Even to its highest tower,
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AND OUTLANDER FANS I WILL BE GOING TO SCOTLAND ON THIS SOJOURN including a trip to:
Doune Castle. The Castle was completed in 1400 for the 1st Duke of Albany and provides the setting for Castle Leoch in Outlander. It was also the set for Winterfell in Game of Thrones and Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The Castle remains unchanged since first built and regarded as one of the best preserved medieval Castles in Scotland.
More from Sam on Season 2:
and a preview of
https://www.starz.com/series/outlander/featured
From whence the world looks black.”
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Welcome back to our quest this week to find truth and right knowledge. Which as we saw yesterday in the case of the Titantic, that our knowledge may never be complete…because history gets slurred, facts lost, legends become our concept of truth-ful fact and it is all glossed over in a shroud of time past and outside interests and good story lines.
“Truth,” said a traveller,
“Is a breath, a wind,
FOR INSTANCE: THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER.
Once a long time ago there were two Princes–Edward (soon to be V) and his younger Brother Richard–in a land far away called England (Some called it Merry and old….but for this story we’ll just stick to the old part as this is a tragic tale and not a comedy).
After their father died (533 years ago on Monday this week April 9, 1483) of well that’s one of those things lost in time: It is not known what actually caused Edward’s death. Pneumonia and typhoid have both been conjectured, as well as poison. Some attributed his death to an unhealthy lifestyle, as he had become stout and inactive in the years before his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England So the older prince of course was schedule to be king….Edward V….he was proclaimed but then comes the confusion of history—
What we do know is that his Uncle Richard (Duke of York, soldier and the last English–there was a Scottish one who died later killed by the English–to be killed in battle). took possession of the young man and his princely brother and then placed himself on the throne and the two young men in the Tower, where he and his young brother disappear into the land of legend and conjecture.
A shadow, a phantom;
I have always been told that Richard’s excuse to take the throne was that his brother Edward had an active Engagement–something akin to marriage for the mighty and important in an age when the Church was all things to all men and where all men were super paranoid about their off springs cause chastity belts were getting hard to come by. This binding contract seriously called into question the later marriage contract with Elizabeth Woodville, a commoner whom he married out of lust–something Edward was well known for—his mistresses and carnal wanderings being legend in his own time.
But according to Michael Jones, (in his book Bosworth) a PHD and author in all manner of historical battle, who like me has a particular interest in Richard (as in 3): the reason for this was not the widely publicized marriage vs. engagement issues BUT the fact that Edward the first born of Richard of York and Cecily his wife was admitted by the mother as born out of wedlock.
Another point brought up was dealth with: In a 2004 television documentary, it was noted that, from July 14 to August 21, 1441 (the approximate time of conception for Edward, who was born in April (on my birthday) 1442), Edward’s father was on campaign at Pontoise, several days march from Rouen (where Cecily of York was based). This was taken to suggest that the Duke of York could not have been available to conceive Edward. Furthermore, the christening celebration of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, the second son of Richard and Cecily, was a lavish and expensive affair, while the christening of the couple’s firstborn son, Edward, was a low key and private affair in a small chapel in Rouen. This could be interpreted as indicating that the couple had more to celebrate together at the birth of Edmund.
Long have I pursued it,
And now the story gets really weird:
First along comes Henry Tudor, with a kind of claim to the throne and a proposed marriage to another of those kids with questionable legitimacy–Edward IV’s daughter, the two princes sister and Richard’s niece—Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) through the Woodvilles who seriously resented Richard taking the throne. His defeat of (ending in his becoming Henry VII), the final ruler of the Plantagenet dynasty, who was killed on 22 August 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses. His body was taken to Greyfriars Friary in Leicester, where it was buried in a crude grave in the friary church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Richard_III_of_England.
Eventually Henry’s 2nd son (the first one dying young and before he could take the throne–but that’s a whole other story) Henry VIII took on the Catholic Church and found a cash source in dissolving the monasteries—when this was done at Greyfriars in Leicester legend had it that Richard’s body was thrown in the river…an untruth based on legend contradicted only a year or so ago by an archeological dig.
Then during the reign of Henry’s 3rd child (following his son Edward VI and his first child Mary I) Elizabeth I, the clincher of all legendary excellence from a playwright who is himself questionable Shakespeare (alone of all the great writers in Western civilization, presents a unique enigma. Despite two hundred years of scholarly attempts to establish the Stratford man’s credentials, doubts about the author’s identity refuse to go away. As Henry James said, “The facts of Stratford do not ‘square’ with the plays of genius… http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/discover-shakespeare/). added his “truths” to the support of his queen of the dynasty (which only lasted through 5 monarchs–the father, the son and all three of the grandchildren) and the truth of their right to the crown which additionally poisoned the truth pool (when viewed in that light) even though it has now been revealed to be more propaganda than truth: With his hunched back and withered arm, Richard scuttles across the stage like a huge spider, spewing out his venomous thoughts. “Since I cannot prove a lover,” he confides to the hushed audience, “I am determined to prove a villain.” http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Edward_IV_of_England
But never have I touched
The hem of its garment
So now what we have in our search for truth is more unanswered questions:
Was Edward illegitimate, or Richard merely power hungry and jealous of his older sibling?
What happened to the Princes?
Are there any of the pretenders, who claim to be the princes having escaped to Europe, a viable possibility or just Medieval con men?
And what about the children’s bones a mystery despite their burial a few hundred years later when they were found in the tower of two during the reign of Charles II (1670) 4 years later in the Henry VIII Chapel of Westminster Abbey in the assumption that they were the two princes. But these have never been available for an investigation as the Church of England and Elizabeth II refuse any type of exhumation for forensic testing.
If you haven’t noticed the truth while it may not set you free can cause one to come to at best an insane rise in the number of further questions in the ongoing search.
And I believed the second traveler;
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For truth was to me
A breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom,
And never had I touched
The hem of its garment.
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Pictures today start at the main which is
New Tribes Mission in Sanford, Fl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tribes_Mission which is located
in the building of the 158-room Hotel Forrest Lake (later named the Mayfair Inn) on the shore of Lake Monroe. The posh hotel, built at a cost of one half million dollars In 1913, by Forrest Lake a prominent politician, banker, real estate investor, a mayor of Sanford, Florida and a member of the Florida House of Representatives. Lake had an instrumental role in the formation of Seminole County. In 1928, Lake was convicted of embezzlement and served 3 years of a 14-year sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Lake_(politician)
Then Tampa and composites from a medieval festival in the Tampa Bay Area…ending with sunset cruising in Key West.
