I love Margery Kempe and her story. On my latest trip home I visited King's Lynn and the church that was saved from burning by the snowstorm in 1422. In her book, she mentions that the guildhall across from the church was burned to the ground during the same fire. Sure enough, the guildhall now in situ was built following the fire of 1422. It was the dead of winter when I was there and I felt that I was there in her time. One of the remarkable aspects of Margery's autobiography is the reference to the lack of available ships to take her on pilgrimage to Santiago Compostela. This occurred in 1415, precisely when Henry V was requisitioning all available ships for his impending invasion of Normandy. As a side note, the misericords in the church's qwire depict beautiful carvings of the royal family from the previous century: Edward III, Edward the Black Prince and his wife, Joan of Kent, and their 2 sons: another Edward, whom did not survive into adulthood, and his younger brother Richard, whom would become the next king.
Thanks for sharing this information! Very interesting. In my personal research my knowledge is much more detailed about the twelfth than fifteenth centuries.
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I love Margery Kempe and her story. On my latest trip home I visited King's Lynn and the church that was saved from burning by the snowstorm in 1422. In her book, she mentions that the guildhall across from the church was burned to the ground during the same fire. Sure enough, the guildhall now in situ was built following the fire of 1422. It was the dead of winter when I was there and I felt that I was there in her time. One of the remarkable aspects of Margery's autobiography is the reference to the lack of available ships to take her on pilgrimage to Santiago Compostela. This occurred in 1415, precisely when Henry V was requisitioning all available ships for his impending invasion of Normandy.
As a side note, the misericords in the church's qwire depict beautiful carvings of the royal family from the previous century: Edward III, Edward the Black Prince and his wife, Joan of Kent, and their 2 sons: another Edward, whom did not survive into adulthood, and his younger brother Richard, whom would become the next king.
Thanks for sharing this information! Very interesting. In my personal research my knowledge is much more detailed about the twelfth than fifteenth centuries.
Love the Princess Bride reference!