Blog Roll

Sir William’s Key™ Is the Future of History  (10-30-2025)


The Gardiner Family Paid £2.8 billion  (10-30-2025)


The man who delivered the killing blow to Richard III – Sir William Gardynyr  (10-29-2025)


Kingslayers of the Counting House – Full Novel Serialisation Starts 1 December 2025 (10-28-2025)

The Gardiner Family Paid £2.8 billion (11-29-2025)

The man who delivered the killing blow to Richard III – Sir William Gardynyr (11-29-2025)

Bishop Stephen Gardiner – Lord Chancellor  (11-29-2025)

Unicorn Tavern on Cheapside – headquarters of the 1485 coup –
was owned by Sir William Gardynyr (11-29-2025)

Gardiner Family Tree: (1448 - 2022) (11-29-2025)

Mevanvy ferch Gryffudd (c. 1436 – a. 1480) (11-29-2025)

Ellen Tudor Burial – The Poultry Directive vs. Bury Tradition (11-29-2025)

The Unicorn’s Debt Volume #1 – Mercantile Architects of the Tudor Ascension,

 1448–2022 (11-29-2025)

Kingslayers of the Counting House – Full Novel Serialisation Starts 1 December 2025 (10-28-2025)

William Gardiner and Ellen Tudor: Proprietors of the Unicorn Tavern

and Key Figures in Lancastrian Resistance During the  Wars of the Roses 

(10-28-2025)

Ellen Tudor, (ca. 1455 - after 1502) (10-24-2025)

Gardiner, Stephen (ca. 1497–1555) (10-28-2025)

Royal Pardon of Sir William Gardiner, d. 1485 and Sir William Gardiner,

 d. 1480 :  A Capstone Document (8-8-2025)

Gardiner Family History Ledger: From Exning Fen to
London Bridge (10-28-2025)

Family History Ledger: The Gardiner Brothers of London and Collybyn Hall (10-27-2025)

Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford: A Lancastrian Stalwart
in Exile and Triumph [11-23-2025]

Sir William Dugdale's The Baronage of England (Volume 2, published 1675). Reveals New Details of The Battle Bosworth [11-23-2025]

Sir William Dugdale's The Baronage of England (1675–1676, vol. 1, pp. 169–171) – Verbatim Extracts, Paleographic Analysis, and Direct Ties to the Gardiner Mercantile Syndicate and the Velvet Coup of 1485 [11-23-2025]

Biography Stephen Gardiner, (ca. 1497–1555) [11-23-2025]

Royal Pardon of Sir William Gardiner, d. 1485 and Sir William Gardiner, d. 1480 : A Capstone Document

The City of London's Discontent with Richard III: Mercantile Grievances, Guild Sympathies, and the Orchestration of a Tudor Coup 11-17-2025]

The Enigmatic Knight of the Wilderness: Sir Christopher Gardiner Revisited Through Modern Eyes    [11-17-2025]

Orthographic Variations in Late Medieval Surnames: The Gardiner Lineage
in Archival Records [ 11-17-2017 ]

The Gardiner Surname: Orthographic Evolution and Etymological Reconsideration in Late Medieval England  [11-14-2025]

The Calais Crucible: Mercantile Monopolies, Dynastic Alliances, and the Tudor Consolidation in the Wake of Bosworth [11-8-2025]

Heraldry and Memorials of the Gardiner - Alington Alliance: The Tomb at Horseheath  [11-8-2025]

Timeline Alderman Richard Gardiner, Mercer, d. 1490 [11-7-2025]

The Will of Sir William Gardiner, Skinner (ca. 1450–1485): A Window into Late Medieval London Mercantile Life and Tudor Connections [11-31-2025]

[Biography Sir Gilbert Talbot 1518, Knight of the Garter [11-3-2025]

Etheldreda Audrey Gardener: A Bridge Between Mercantile Power and Gentry Ambition 

in the Shadow of Bosworth [11-3-2025]

Biography Elis Gruffydd (c. 1490–c. 1552) [10-31-2025]

Biography Ellen Tudor (ca. 1455–after 1502) [10-31-2025]

Transmission of the Bosworth Narrative:
Elis Gruffudd and the Calais Connection  [10-29-2025]

Introduction Rewriting Bosworth:  A Merchant Coup [10-28-2025]

Richard Gardiner's Role in the Calais Staple: A Merchant Coup Linchpin [10-20-25]

City of London's Passive Acceptance of Henry Tudor [10-18-25]

The Will of William Gardiner, Clothworker - Fishmonger, d. 1480: Founding benefactor
of the London Clothworkers Guild  [12-18-2017]

Biography John Gardyner of Bailrigg (b. 1400 - d. 1472) [11-17-2017]

Introduction: Rewriting Bosworth (A Merchant Coup) [10-17-25]

Hidden History #102 (Father of the City) [1-3-2018]

Hidden History #101 (What's In A Name) [12-31-2017]

Orthographic Variations in Late Medieval Surnames: The Gardiner and Alington
Lineages in Archival Records [ 11-17-20217 ]


Biography Captain Washington Walker Gardner 1839-1913: First At Vicksburg [4-15-2017]

Low Meaning of the Gardiner Name  [01-01-2017]

Warwick Marches On London 1470 [12-26-2016]

The Keys To The Kingdom [12-25-2016]

Arms - Shield, William Gardiner, and Ellen Tudor [12-24-2016]

Battle of Bosworth - Gardiner [12-04-2016]

Sir William Gardiner 1485 [07-06-2016]

Richard Gardiner 1489 [04-26-2016]