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6 unusual facts about Dominic Mancini


Alexander Barclay

Barclay also translated the Mirrour of Good Manners, from the Italian of Dominic Mancini, and wrote five Eclogues, printed by Wynkyn de Worde about 1518.

Dominic Mancini

Although some historians think Mancini arrived in England at the end of 1482, others believe he got there just before Edward IV died (9 April 1483).

Mancini's report was lost for centuries but was discovered in the Municipal Library in Lille, France, in 1934.

He returned to France in July, some time between the coronation of Richard III on (6 July 1483), before the princes disappeared, and the delivery of his report in December.

Guillaume de Rochefort, Lord Chancellor of France, repeated the rumour in the Estates-General in Tours in January 1484, adding that Richard III had "massacred" the princes and then been given the crown "by the will of the people"; he may have obtained his information from Mancini's report.

He called it: De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium (The Occupation of the Throne of England by Richard III).



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