sangnis

Updated: May 5, 2025

Here we see the origin of the tale relating to the duchess of York; nullus certus & incorruptus sangnis: from these mistaken or perverted words flowed the report of Richard's aspersing his mother's honour. Could Sir Thomas More be ignorant of this fact? or, if ignorant, where is his competence as an historian?

Horace Walpole - Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third