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SIR PAUL PINDAR c.1565-1650. AND HIS HOUSE IN BISHOPSGATE

Jun 24, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

ambassadors, Bishopsgate, Constantinople, Half Moon Street, Italian banking system, James VI, John Strype, Liverpool Street Station, London, Northamptonshire, Old St. Paul’s, Ottoman Empire, Sir Paul Pyndar, taverns, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wellingborough

Reposted from A Medieval Potpourri@sparkypus.com The façade of Sir Paul Pindar’s house in Bishopgate. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Photo Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Sir Paul Pindar acquired the site in what was then known as Bishopsgate Street Without in 1597 and begun building the house, later known as Pindar’s House, shortly afterward…
Breaking the code – Charles V

Mar 14, 2023

anniversaries, religion, Science

ambassadors, Catherine of Aragon, Charles V, codebreakers, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Ferdinand II, Francis I, Germany, Henry VIII, Holy Roman Emperors, Mary I, Maximilian I, mercenaries, Nancy, Prague, Protestant rebels, revolts, Schmalkaildic League, Stanislas Library

The Emperor Charles V was the grandson of Maximilian I (Richard III’s friend and step-nephew-in-law), a nephew of Catherine of Aragon (and thus by marriage to Henry VIII) and father-in-law of Mary I. In February 1547, he feared death at the hands of a Italian mercenary (Pierre Strozzi) and wrote a fiendishly coded letter to…