It was built on the site of the medieval abbey gatehouse using stones from the ruined abbey but was destroyed by fire during the English Civil War. A king buried in a carpark and a cardinal in a park… Leicester is certainly an interesting place!
Thanks for sharing though. I wonder how they could be sure though, Richard had a living relative to DNA, has Wolsey do you think? We known he had illegitimate children, I wonder if the line is still running, or that descendants know that they stem from him? I would imagine records maybe very scarce if none existent maybe, after all he should have been celibate!!! Did you go to Kenilworth Natalie, its a beautiful romantic looking ruin.
If they find him, one of us might be able to help identify him. That would be exciting. I am only one of many descendants. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us! His children were farmed off onto another man when Wolsey bribed the man in question to take his mistress and two offspring in return for a favourable ruling in a case he was judging as Chancellor of England.
Interesting Article. My family claims to have been from this line but records are sparse. A find of the Cardinal and some DNA testing would be fantastic.
Thanks for your guide. Image source, Getty Images. The remains of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey could be found in Leicester. Thomas Wolsey. They were appropriated with most of the rest of his property by his former friend and confidant Henry VIII, when the clergyman fell from grace over his failure to win an annulment for the king from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. The angels survived when so much of the metalwork of the period was melted down, partly because they vanished into obscurity.
They were ultimately used as gate post decorations at Harrowden Hall, a mansion in Northamptonshire which is now part of a golf club. Thomas Wolsey was a lucky man. From the outset of his symptoms, both men knew that he was in mortal danger. Yet, just what did happen to Wolsey? What do these symptoms tell us of the cause of his death and where is his body?
We will be exploring the finale to this riveting tale in the following blog. From Sheffield Lodge, Wolsey began a weary journey, inexorably travelling southwards, towards London. One night was also spent in Nottingham, although Cavendish gives no details of exactly where.
Perhaps he stayed again at the archiepiscopal residence at Southwell, where he had lodged on his way to Cawood, some 18 months earlier. It must have been a painful and exhausting journey for Wolsey. Leicester Abbey, also known as the Abbey of St Mary de Pratis Abbey of the Meadows was an Augustinian monastery situated just one kilometre north of the medieval city of Leicester.
It was the largest and one of the most influential Augustinian Abbeys in England. The monastery complex occupied about 13 hectares of land. The entire compound was surrounded by a wall which still survives. The main abbey church and conventual buildings were sited adjacent to the west bank of the River Soar, which meandered through the meadows in which the abbey had been built.
It remains the main entrance to the park today, but sadly, the gatehouse has gone see image above. A track led southwards to a second, inner gatehouse. So, we know for sure that Wolsey was housed in a first-floor chamber.
It is quite possible that the Abbot ceded his own lodgings to the Cardinal.
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