#Lord Lambourn

[kingsnorthportfolio]

Peter Cook as Lord Lambourn

[adrianicsea]

The oc relationships asks is soooooooo unfair because I want to ask you every single one about Kurt and Declan 🥺 but I will restrain myself!! Can I ask for 14, 21, and 31?

YES absolutely!!! i’m always eager to talk about kurt and declan… some of my newest OCs and yet also some of the dearest to me. it’s like they sprang fully formed from my forehead

14. what is something they argue about constantly? is it a deep-seated issue or something small? — i think there’s a LOTTTT of argument between them about declan’s desire to become a vampire for real. it’s something that declan wants (or thinks he wants) so badly that it drives him to progressively riskier & more dangerous places in search of it, and kurt doesn’t want to see declan get hurt. of course, what declan DOESN’T know is that kurt is a vampire himself— if and when declan finds out, that’s just another source of argument between them, because kurt might SAY that he doesn’t want declan to be injured, but then why won’t he just turn declan himself?

21. who typically tends to initiate intimacy first (be it conversation, action, etc)? — i think for a long while, both of them are very careful and cagey about intimacy, just because of the fact that one of them is employed by the other. once they do become involved, though, i think that they take it in turns; kurt is the touchier and more physically affectionate of the two, while declan is the one more likely to start intimate or vulnerable conversations.

31. how would they describe one another? — i think that all of kurt’s myriad conflicting feelings about declan would be most succinctly summed up like this: “declan is nothing like him [his ancestor, lord lambourne], and declan is TOO MUCH like him.”

as for declan, i think he would describe kurt thusly: “kurt is the only person in this charade i’ve embarked on that i know i can trust beyond all shadow of a doubt.”

[commonguttersnipe]

Smash or Pass: "Yellowbeard" character edition

Yellowbeard- Pass (it’s all about that character development… which he has none)

Moon- Pass (I just feel bad for him to be honest)

Dan- Smash (our lawful good boy)

Lord Lambourn- Kind of a smash (I’m very on the fence about him)

Gilbert- Pass (I will protect him at all costs though)

Conquistadors- Pass (naughty colonisers)

Pew- Smash (he can rat me out any time…)

Clement- SMASH (the hair…)

[angiec333]

Apples, variety 'Lord Lambourne', ripening on a tree branch

Image available at Thoughts of Dawn - Apples 

[proserp]

The secret statue has been revealed at the wedding festivities celebrating the union of Lord Montagu and Lady Marcheline- it is not a statue at all!

The tapestry rippled to the ground, spilling out of the empty fountain. Red roses and basket-of-gold flowers adorned the basin of the fountain, pillaring up the column of a grand pedestal on which sat a bust so lifelike the eyes tricked one into believing them in motion. The face featured a high forehead, a large nose, thick lips, and a dimpled chin. The ruddy complexion captured the translucent nature of skin so perfectly one might not believe it to be sculpted from wax. The face, though not handsome, possessed the steady and open expression known of King George III with such shocking clarity that someone in the crowd gasped, exclaiming- “He’s not dead!” “It’s the King!” “Long live the King!” And when the gasps had settled, cheers began, and the audience rushed to get a better view. Laughing, the Duke stepped aside with the Viscount, a champagne served to each of them. Both obviously pleased with the uproarious reactions- “It blinked!” “I saw it!” “There!” “His Majesty is watching me!” “Look!” “It’s magnificent!” “Surreal!” “He’s terrifying!” The Viscount grinned around the brim of his flute, turning up the liquid and coughing slightly as the Duke slapped his shoulder. A man turned to them and insisted- “Is this witchcraft?! Who has made this? It must be real! Someone has stole the King’s head from his corpse, surely!” The Viscount chuckled- “It is the work of a French artist, Anna Maria Tussaud. If you wish to see the process done, she is joining me in Lambourn in a fortnight and will demonstrate the base of her craft for all who wish to see. Let us all hope to have the great breadth of her work in London. I intend to have her established on the upper floor of the Baker Street Bazaar within the year.”

[weirdesplinder]

Lista di romance storici con protagoniste donne che lavorano

Lista di romanzi rosa storici con protagoniste femminili che lavorano, elencherò i libri per autrice, poiché ho notato che se a una scrittrice piace questo genere di protagoniste della working class, le utilizza in diversi suoi libri, perciò l’elenco avrà dei sotto elenchi, siete avvertite. Altro avvertimento è che la lista è molto incompleta in quanto i romance con working girls sono tantissimi e non potevo né volevo elencarli tutti, per restringere la lista sono andata a mio gusto personale e ho scelto alcuni lavori atipici, non troverete governanti o cortigiane qui, c’è solo una tutrice e solo perché il romanzo è talmente bello che non volevo escluderlo. E, ultimo avvertimento, sono tutti libri ambientati nell’Ottocento, tranne uno. Ecco la lista:

-Iniziamo con l’autrice Maya Rodale che in molti suoi libri utilizza delle protagoniste che lavorano, disponibile in italiano ho trovato solo questo pubblicato da Harpercollins:

La città dei sogni New York, 1895New York, la città dove i sogni possono divenire realtà. Quello di Brandon, Duca di Kingston, è trovare una ricca ereditiera da sposare per mantenere le sue vaste tenute, mentre quello di Miss Adeline Black, una giovane e intraprendente sarta, è di aprire finalmente un negozio da modista tutto suo, dove confezionare innovativi e comodi abiti per signore. Dal primo istante in cui il destino li fa incontrare, tra loro si accende un'attrazione mai provata prima. Consapevoli però che la differenza sociale che li divide è un ostacolo insormontabile, decidono di collaborare per realizzare le loro aspirazioni: lei aiuterà il duca a individuare l'ereditiera più adatta alle sue necessità, mentre Brandon porterà Adeline negli ambienti più eleganti dove potrà mostrare le sue creazioni. Sembra un piano perfetto, ma sapranno accontentarsi e impedire ai loro cuori di reclamare di più?

Ma in realtà ha scritto un’intera serie, The writing girls serie, dove protagoniste sono delle giornaliste, purtroppo inedita in italiano (se mi sbaglio ed è stata tradotta correggetemi):

Writing Girls

1. A Groom of One's Own (2010)

2. A Tale of Two Lovers (2011)

3. The Tattooed Duke (2012)

4. Seducing Mr. Knightly (2012)

- Altra autrice che ha dedicato un’intera serie alle donne che lavorano è Laura Lee Guhrke con la serie Girl Bachelors inteamente pubblicata in italiano da I romanzi Mondadori:

1. E infine la baciò

Harrison Robert, visconte di Marlowe, editore di successo e non meno fortunato dongiovanni, sfidando tutte le convenzioni sociali ha fatto di Emma Dove la propria segretaria. Ma per quanto Emma sia precisa, competente, efficiente, il suo sogno è diventare un’affermata scrittrice.

2. Le malizie di un Duca

Prudence Bosworth conduce una vita modesta ma dignitosa, lavora come sarta e interviene ai balli dell’alta società solo per realizzare i piccoli rammendi dell’ultimo momento. È durante una di queste serate che incontra Rhys de Winter, l’affascinante duca di St Cyres, l’uomo più bello che abbia mai visto: l’uomo dei suoi sogni

3. Il segreto di un gentiluomo

Coronando il sogno di una vita, Maria Martingale torna dalla Francia per aprire in Mayfair una pasticceria. Tutto sembra filare liscio, ma l’altezzoso Phillip Hawthorne, marchese di Kayne, cerca di metterle i bastoni fra le ruote.

4. Tanto può la seduzione

È dura per una ragazza sola guadagnarsi da vivere lavorando. Lo sa bene Daisy Merrick, che ha di nuovo perso un impiego a causa della propria schiettezza. Ecco perché, per costruirsi il futuro a lungo sognato, decide di mettere a punto un piano, che purtroppo dipende dall’uomo più esasperante che lei abbia mai conosciuto: Sebastian Grant, conte di Avermore.

- Passiamo poi ad Amanda Quick i cui romanzi con protagoniste donne con professioni atipiche purtroppo sono inediti in italiano.Le protagoniste della serie Ladies of Lantern Street sono investigatrici sotto copertura ad esempio:

1. Crystal Gardens (2012)

2. The Mystery Woman (2013)

3. Otherwise Engaged (2014)

Mentre la protagonista del romance ambientato nel 1930, intitolato Tightrope, è una trapezista.

- Mary Balogh ha invece utilizzato delle insegnanti nella sua serie Simply Quartet, interamente pubblicata in italiano da I romanzi Mondadori:

1. Risveglio di passioni

Si incontrano durante una bufera di neve: lei una giovane insegnante con un passato segreto, lui l’attraente straniero che inaspettatamente giunge a soccorrerla.

2. Semplicemente amore

Anne Jewel, madre nubile e insegnante, viene invitata con il figlio nella residenza gallese dei Bewcastle per l’estate. Il giorno del suo arrivo Anne si ritrova a osservare, non vista, un uomo che la colpisce per avvenenza e virilità: quando però si volta, le rivela un volto deturpato dalle cicatrici.

3.Semplicemente magico

I destini di Susanna Osbourne e Peter Edgeworth, visconte di Whitleaf, tornano a incontrarsi nello scenario di una sontuosa tenuta di campagna.

4. Semplicemente perfetto

Claudia Martin, colta e dai modi semplici, dirige con impegno e intelligenza una scuola per giovani signore poco abbienti. Genuino è il suo disprezzo per l’aristocrazia e per la superficialità dei rituali che la caratterizzano. Trovarsi quindi in viaggio da Bath a Londra in una splendida carrozza con Joseph Fawcitt, marchese di Attingsborough, è per lei un tormento.

Vi segnalo anche della serie Bedwin, il libro: Duca di ghiaccio, dove la protagonista femminile è l’ex tutrice della sorella del protagonista maschile Wulfric

- Poteva mancare Elizabeth Hoyt al nostro elenco? Certo che no. Anche tra i suoi libri le protagoniste che lavorano non mancano, io mi limito a citarvene uno, pubblicato da I romanzi Mondadori: 

Maliziose intenzioni

Lazarus Huntington, lord Caire, è deciso a dare la caccia al feroce assassino che si aggira nei bassifondi di St Giles e che ha ucciso la sua amante. Ma per scovarlo ha bisogno dell’aiuto di Temperance Dews, vedova e direttrice di un orfanotrofio, che conosce quella zona come le proprie tasche.

- Julie Anne Long è più nobiliare nelle sue scelte, ma anche tra i suoi libri non manca una sarta come protagonista, il romanzo in questione è stato pubblicato da I romanzi mondadori:

Conquistare un marchese

Il freddo e controllato Julian Spenser, marchese di Dryden, pretende per sé solo il meglio. E ora ha trovato la moglie perfetta, la bella ereditiera Lisbeth Redmond, la cui dote gli permetterà di recuperare l'ultima proprietà di famiglia. Tuttavia basta uno sguardo alla sua dama di compagnia/sarta, Phoebe Vale, per scombussolargli i piani.

- Opera di Lorraine Heath è un romanzo con protagonista la proprietaria di una taverna edito da Harpercollins:

Un duca per Gillie Trewlove

Londra, 1871Venire lasciato all'altare è già stato umiliante, ma essere salvato dall'aggressione di una banda di teppisti da una donna, per quanto coraggiosa e bellissima, è davvero il culmine della terribile giornata del Duca di Thornley. O forse no. Gillie Trewlove, infatti, non solo lo ospita sino alla sua completa guarigione nella propria taverna, ma si offre anche di aiutarlo a setacciare gli angoli più bui di Londra alla ricerca della sua sposa fuggitiva.

- Sophie Jordan ha scritto invece un romanzo con protagonista una commessa, edito I Romanzi Mondadori:

Un duca imprevisto

Poppy Fairchurch è un'inguaribile sognatrice che per mantenere se stessa e la sorella minore Bryony lavora come commessa in un negozio di fiori. Qui s'invaghisce dell'affascinante duca di Autenberry sognando addirittura che possa chiederla in sposa, finché un giorno accade l'impensabile. Il duca sbatte la testa, cade in un coma profondo e da quel momento una serie di equivoci spalancano le porte della nobile famiglia alla giovane Poppy, che viene scambiata per la sua fidanzata. L'unico a non credere che le cose stiano davvero così, ben conoscendo l'indole libertina del fratellastro, è Struan Mackenzie…

- Courtney Milan ha pubblicato un romanzo con protagonista la proprietaria di un giornale per suffragette, purtroppo inedito in italiano:

The Suffragette Scandal

Frederica Marshall is one of the early suffragettes. Owner of a successful all-women newspaper, she campaigns to prove to 1877 society that equal rights is something that can and should happen. But when a man whom she once spurned tries to shut down her efforts, she must enlist the help of his brother – aristocratic forger and scoundrel Edward Clark – to keep her campaign alive.

- Miranda Davis ha avuto la fantasia di scegliere come protagonista di un suo romance una farmacista (dell’Ottocento…), ma purtroppo anche questo è inedito in italiano:

The Duke's Tattoo

Before he was the tenth Duke of Ainsworth, Jeremy Maubrey was one of the ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ and a cavalry officer known for his implacable nature. But what he wakes up to find on this particular morning requires revenge of a whole new order of magnitude. Bath’s only female apothecary, Miss Prudence Haversham has dreamed of revenge against the duke who ruined her life nine years ago. Unfortunately, she made one simple mistake and mocked the wrong man indelibly. Now, Miss Haversham can only pray her innocent victim never discovers the guilty part.

- Altra scrittrice che ama personaggi particolari è certamente Laura Kinsale, io mi limito a citarvi solo uno dei suoi libri, ma molti vedono protagoniste donne e uomini fuori dai soliti schemi romance. Io vi cito un suo romanzo pubblicato da I romanzi mondadori:

Un sogno ci salverà

Quando Ransom Falconer, duca di Damerell, si reca dal famoso inventore Merlin Lambourne, ha un solo scopo: convincerlo a mettere il suo talento al servizio della patria, nella guerra contro Napoleone. L’ultima cosa che si aspetta è che, in realtà, Merlin sia una donna.

- L’autrice Aliyah Burke credo sia completamente inedita in Italia come il suo libro con protagonista una assassina/guardia del corpo:

What the Earl Desires

A pair of English women hire Najja, an African assassin, to protect them. In the course of her duties she meets Colin Faulkner, Earl of Clifton. But they can never be together, because the year is 1811, and an entire continent – plus her loyalty to her father – lie between them.

- Altro titolo inedito in italiano è di Darlene Marshall e vede protagonista una piratessa:

What The Parrot Saw

Captain Mattie St Armand is not just a woman: she’s the biracial bastard daughter of a pirate and a freedwoman, so she needs a naïve white man to help deflect the authorities while she smuggles slaves from Florida to freedom in the Bahamas. This is where Oliver Woodruff comes in. A naïve white man who needs rescuing from a whorehouse, he’s the perfect man for her job.

- L’ultima autrice che includo nella lista è…me stessa. Infatti nel mio romanzo L’ELISIR DI MANTOVA, edito Leggereditore, romance ambientato nell’Ottocento, una delle due protagoniste femminili è infermiera e a volte fa le veci di medico.

1846. Adam Roschmann, è un uomo in fuga dalle responsabilità e dal mondo. Figlio di William e Matilde, viene espulso con disonore dall’Accademia militare. Coinvolto in vicende torbide legate al gioco d’azzardo, si dedica a imprese che non dovrebbero riguardare un uomo del suo ceto. Ritornato nei luoghi natali si imbatte in Elena, un’amica d’infanzia. Elena Harting sta seguendo le orme del padre, lavora in ospedale e cura i malati proprio come fosse un vero medico. Troppo testarda e intelligente per uno spregiudicato buono a nulla come Adam. Fra Verona e Mantova colpite da un morbo insidioso e la città di Vienna custode di molti segreti, il loro rapporto si trasforma in una pericolosa altalena di emozioni.

[elaianna]

Ships

I read @enigmatic-elegance‘s post and honestly, it got me all warm and fuzzy reading hers, and then thinking of my own ships. Not all of which I would classify as ‘active’.

Elaianna ( @elaianna ) and Thomas ( @thomasstalsworth )

Oh.My.Gosh. I could gush about these two forever OOC. They were never meant to be. They were more of an accident gone right. Thomas was in Elaianna’s life when she was married to another man. He was someone who just made her smile with his crazy antics, and she felt a kinship with given their homeland. It was never more than that until after Elaianna had accepted her husband’s fate at the Broken Shore near a year later after his disappearance. Then it was through high tension RP that their relationship ever so gradually bloomed. They have a very real feel to them and how their relationship progressed, and in many ways, the way they treat each other is how I believe people should treat their spouses. Honestly, I need to stop here or I’ll write a minimum 5 page essay on these two.

Miriam ( @miriam-surick ) & Karthe ( @karthe-surick )

I’m still not sure how this one happened. One day he burned down her shelter, her livelihood and helped kill a bunch of people she valued and adored. The next day, he’s apologizing. Then another day she’s going Mom-mode on someone and he really liked that because he didn’t like that person. Then somehow they’re alone in his apartment and instead of trying to pull his famed hood off like everyone else does, when it fell off and he was visibly uncomfortable/anxious, she pulled it back on-- which no one had done before. Then they got married. Alright, so maybe not that soon. It was like, well over a year before they got married, and he even saved her kiddos, and her a few times. He plays a great Stepdad role to the twerps, and while Karthe can be an asshat to everyone else, when it comes to his famliy, it’s so interesting to see that other side to him where he’s trying to not be an asshat, and trying to be a good role model and being sweet, albeit awkwardly at times.

Juliiete ( @juliette-bennas ) and Gereion ( @gereionkingston )

Hello accident. I mean that in the nicest ways. When I started writing Jules, and even now, it was very much with the intention she would be an alt character and not one I would be on too often. Which meant I wasn’t looking for any sort of partnership with her. Yet right off the get-go there was a sort of tension between Jules and Gere, and the jokes went flying about them. Yet, they happened. While both are wild in their own way, they find a calmness with one another. Plus, they both live to make Theodore’s life hell. I’m also blessed OOC by the communication between Gere and I, and how even though I constantly ask because I am paranoid about not being on often, he still wants the two together even though I’m not on often. Bless you.

Ginny ( @ginnyfrasier ) and Fenrick ( @fenrickscrossing )

Immovable object, meet unstoppable force. Ginny was/is a country bumpkin from Westfall, a priestess fresh from the Abbey, and working on securing some form of financial position to live off of, even if it was as simple as working/living at another Abbey. So when she got a job working for the Lord Frasier at the Abbey in Jasperwood, she didn’t think much of it. Until she found out that job was complete with her own room at the manor-- and that manor happened to be her best friend’s childhood home, and that lord? Was that friend’s brother. Fast forward through a couple firecracker interactions and both Fenrick and Ginny were falling hard and fast, but Ginny was  adamant on not giving him herself. She held out until she had a ring, and his last name. Now married, and with a son, she still struggles with her role as a Countess, but her husband and child are distraction enough from it, and more than reason enough to continue.

Elena ( @elena-lambourne ) and Alessandro ( @thehumbleknight )

I squeal internally anytime I think of these two. They are pure, precious and too sweet for their own good. It has been a very very slow burn. Seeing all the good they do together and the positive vibes they bring where they go, namely Westfall, does the heart good. Though we’re going at a snail’s pace with their RP, I do still love these two.

Saoirse ( @saoirse-dombrecht ) and Malcolm ( @thomasstalsworth (for lack of Malcolm blog)

These two were born out of the idea Tom and I had to RP-level, and to make characters with histories that would come up while we were leveling. So you’ve got a former Bloodsail laying low to avoid the crew she was pressganged to join (Saoirse) and a former Defias trying to avoid the authority and hid his cog, as well as avoid some of the Defias. Saoirse is a woman with no shame and who takes great amusement out of torturing Malcolm who is an awkward young man. These two are fun, and hilarious to write together as they get into so many shenannies while we quest.

I have a few other ships but they tend to be with the same writers

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In Royal History . 5 December 902 . Ealhswith, wife of King Alfred the Great died . Ealhswith or Ealswitha (birthdate unknown) . ◼ Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil (or Mucel), Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family, & according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia. . ◼ She was married to Alfred the Great in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, & Alfred was regarded as heir apparent. The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, & the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex & Mercia. Alfred became king on his brother’s death in 871. . ◼ Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband. . ◼ Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, & Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, & they stayed in royal possession after her death. . ◼ It was probably after Alfred’s death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary’s Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, & was buried in her son Edward’s new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as “the true & dear lady of the English”. . ◼ Alfred & Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood. . ▪ Æthelflæd (d.918), Lady of the Mercians, married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians . ▪ Edward the Elder (d.924), King of the Anglo-Saxons, . ▪ Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father . ▪ Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (d.929), married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders . ▪ Æthelweard (d. c.920) . . . (at England) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIaWQMyDvzl/?igshid=14tb4jcqytrv4

[tullensfruitfarm]

At Tullens Fruit Farm we grow traditional varieties of English apples, apples and pears that includes worcester pearmain apple, egremont russet apple, cox's orange pippin apple, scrumptious apple, red windsor apple, spartan apple, james grieve apple, blenheim orange apple, ashmead's kernel apple, lord derby apple, lord lambourne apple, katy apple,jonagold apple, etc.

[skeleton-richard]

I looked at some reviews again and they weren’t as bad as I remembered for some reason. This one from Chicago says the relationship is “odd.” (though they do compare it to Design For Living) I guess that’s the only one that sounds weirded out and for some reason I thought there was another one like that. For once my false memories were proved pleasantly wrong! Most don’t address it directly. One of the reviews of the 2011 York performance says “truly in love with his wife, and with his good friend the Earl of Oxford” and that’s pretty fair :D Oh, and speaking of that performance,

Emily Pithon (Anne), Michael Lambourne (Robert), and Jonathan Race (Richard) in the York 2011 production (from here)

And not only is polyamory not that hard to understand, they’re just really written as three people who care about and need and love each other, which people in all kinds of close relationships will understand!

Robert was nice in "The Friar's Tale" by Cherith Baldry, but sadly that's just a short story and it doesn't completely go the ot3 route, he and Richard are together but Anne doesn't think they're lovers. But Robert is at least good in that. The Lords of Lancaster had Robert be straight but it was really good at portraying why Richard loves him, so I kinda forgave it. So many things just don't really bother to actually explain why Richard is so attached to Robert-- I think a lot of histfic authors, when they're writing something following history (like Plaidy), forget that they're still writing a novel and they need to do things like character development and give characters personalities, not just describe historical events.

Anyway. Yessss that's how I see them too. Robert is so cynical and just doesn't give a fuck-- like, directly snarking at Archbishop Arundel not giving a fuck-- but being with Richard and Anne makes him so happy. And he in turn makes them happy.

Not that the 1998 BBC radio production of Two Planks and a Passion isn't perfect but it cut some of the bits with medieval politics that would slow it down for most audiences and that's okay I guess but it means we didn't get to hear Tim McInnery go on a small-r religious reform tangent!

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In History 5 December 902 Ealhswith, wife of King Alfred the Great died About Ealhswith; Ealhswith or Ealswitha (birthdate unknown) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. ◼ Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil (or Mucel), Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family, & according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia. ◼ She was married to Alfred the Great in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, & Alfred was regarded as heir apparent. The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, & the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex & Mercia. Alfred became king on his brother’s death in 871. ◼ Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband. ◼ Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, & Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, & they stayed in royal possession after her death. ◼ It was probably after Alfred’s death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary’s Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, & was buried in her son Edward’s new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as “the true & dear lady of the English”. ◼ Alfred & Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood. ▪ Æthelflæd (d. 918), Lady of the Mercians, married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians ▪ Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Anglo-Saxons ▪ Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father ▪ Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (d. 929), married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders ▪ Æthelweard (d. c.920) . (at England) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5tWojAA5_M/?igshid=ekdylw093z9y

[tullensfruitfarm]

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On This Day In History . 5 December 902 . Ealhswith, wife of King Alfred the Great died . . About Ealhswith; . 👑 Ealhswith or Ealswitha (birthdate unknown) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. . ◼ Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil (or Mucel), Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family, & according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King��Coenwulf of Mercia. . ◼ She was married to Alfred the Great in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, & Alfred was regarded as heir apparent. The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, & the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex & Mercia. Alfred became king on his brother's death in 871. . ◼ Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband. . ◼ Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, & Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, & they stayed in royal possession after her death. . ◼ It was probably after Alfred's death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, & was buried in her son Edward's new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as "the true & dear lady of the English". . ◼ Alfred & Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood. . ▪ Æthelflæd (d. 918), Lady of the Mercians, married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians . ▪ Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Anglo-Saxons . ▪ Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father . ▪ Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (d. 929), married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders . ▪ Æthelweard (d. c.920) . . . #Onthisday (at Winchester, Hampshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrAkwIEFGHt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v8q0ub9xo9v1

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This'll put a feather in your cap - it's an excellent rendering of Peter Cook as Lord Lambourn in 1983's Yellowbeard by @kingsnorthportfolio! Really cool!!

Peter Cook as Lord Lambourn