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une-sanz-pluis · 1 year ago

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In episode five of Heroine City, Lynsey Shaw is joined by Dr Euan Roger, lead curator at The National Archives, to discuss the fascinating Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester. A sad tale of love magic, witchcraft and treason, Eleanor was imprisoned for the rest of her life and her marriage to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester annulled after she was accused of using witchcraft 'in a treasonous way' and tricking him into marriage with 'love magic.'

#eleanor cobham #podcast #historian: euan roger #this was pretty good #my only comment on the stuff about eleanor would be #that the host talks about an unknown woman attending eleanor's funeral as mentioned in gemma hollman's 'royal witches'#afaik we have no evidence for eleanor's death funeral or tomb except for the payment to help defray the costs of her burial #and i'm sure i'd remember it if hollman had mentioned this #(euan roger seemed unfamiliar with it too)#so i checked my copy of 'royal witches'#and i think what the host was thinking of is the unnamed damsel that attended elizabeth woodville's funeral which hollman mentons #hollman does not mention eleanor's funeral understandably because nothing is known about it #oh and i would've mentioned that eleanor appears in shakespeare's henry vi pt 2 and was played by sally hawkins in a recent adaptation

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