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Welcome to Buckingham's Retinue Reenactment Site
Bill block (Lincoln 2004) Welcome to Buckingham's Retinue, one of the more authentic re-enactment groups for the period 1450-1500. Our society is a non profit orgainsation that exists to reconstruct and re-enact late medieval life, recreating the period known as 'The Wars of the Roses'.

If you are interested in taking up re-enactment as a hobby, check out our recruitment section to see the kinds of things we do and how you can take part. If you want to see us in action, here is Buckingham's Retinues  events list for 2010.

If you own or manage a historical site and want to know how Buckingham's Retinue could bring it to life, please read our employers' section.

We also have a wide variety of information about medieval life, from histories of the wars of the roses, guides on clothing, songs, weaponry information, as well as a history of the Stafford Family, who were the first Dukes of Buckingham.

Please feel free to contact us.


Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 )
 
Skipton Castle 2010 Report

Skipton Castle, seated in the Gateway to the Dales, and witness to a terrible murder and its investigation.

Blessed with reasonable weather (neither roasting hot nor drowned) over 30 members of the Buckingham Household descended on Skipton Castle on 24 and 25 July 2010 to play out general life in the castle. Each member was given their own character, status and motivation to carry them through the plot and the weekend. There were servants in the kitchens preparing food and serving the top table; guards on the main gate to stop and check those who wished to enter, locals from the town and many more who made up the daily running of the castle.

It was understood that the Gloucester retinue had been billeted in the castle for a week, and the day started with the Captain of the Gloucester's (Jock) demanding an audience with Lady Joan Stanley (Zoe) and Lady Beaufort (Hill). A man more accustomed to talking to soldiers, the Captain did not impress the Ladies, and the more he threw his weight about and leered at Lady Joan's daughter (Laura) the more infuriated the Ladies became. The Captain was given the task of finding out where the stolen delivery of wine had gone.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 July 2010 )
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Skipton Castle 2010

Skipton Castle 24th / 25th July - The Plot

 

Richard (the Duke of Gloucester)  has been suspicious for a long time that Margaret Beaufort is up to something and as a result has placed a number of spies in various households around the north. Not too long ago he received information from Andy Horsfield the spy at Skipton that Margaret Beaufort was trying to increase her influence with the northern families in order to help bring her son Henry Tudor back into the country. As a result of this he sent Sir Richard Brown to take over Skipton and try to diminish the Stanley's power base in the north. Unfortunately Margaret was still there when Sir Richard arrived. New orders were sent to Andy by the way of Kyle Glover who was a guard in Sir Richards retinue. Kyle was in one respect a good choice to send secret orders with as no-one would suspect him, but also due to the reason no-one suspects him he was a poor choice and he dithered over how to smuggle the orders to the drop off point, taking a week to pluck up courage. When he did finally workout were they were to go and get them there he was followed by Richard Scowerer, Jocks henchman, who retrieved them and gave them to Jock on the Saturday morning. Richard can't read so he didn't know what they were.

Last Updated ( Monday, 26 July 2010 )
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