Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Thursday, 30 January 2025

The Royal Martyr


Today is the anniversary of the regicide of King Charles I in 1649.

King Charles I NPG 4836





















A devotional image of the Royal Martyr from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century and now in the National Portrait Gallery
Image: NPG

Last year I posted about a number of links to sites concerning the cult and commemoration of the Royal Martyr and it seems appropriate to link to that again. The links can be seen by going to King Charles the Martyr


An additional example of a relic is linked to in another post from last year at Charles I King and Martyr



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