Anne Boleyn
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CAN A PICTURE PAINT A THOUSAND WORDS?
“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Neville, art, Baynard’s Castle, Catherine Howard, Cecily Duchess of York, Edward V, Edwin Austin Abbey, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Henry of Buckingham, Jane, John Everett Millais, John Morton, Margaret of Salisbury, Paul Delaroche, Philip Calderon, portraits, propaganda, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Shakespeare, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Three Estates, Tower GreenUPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/can-a-picture-paint-a-thousand-words-ricardian-art/ It’s said a picture can paint a thousand words. It certainly can but not always accurately. It can distort the truth. Art work based on the Ricardian period is certainly true of this. Take for example the stunning painting by Edwin Austin Abbey, Richard Duke of Gloucester…
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The above illustration is by Hans Holbein the Younger – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (Royal Collection) This post, about Edward IV’s daughter Catherine, prompted me to post this, about the husband of another of Edward IV’s daughter, Anne, Countess of Surrey. Thomas Howard, eventually 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was the grandson of…
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HENRY VIII: THE EVEN HANDED PERSECUTOR
Anne Askew, Anne Boleyn, beheadings, burnings, Catherine Howard, chopping and changing, clergymen, Courtenays, Edmund de la Pole, Edward of Buckingham, George Boleyn, hangings, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Howards, Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford, Margaret of Salisbury, Mark Smeaton, monks, Nun of Kent, religious persecution, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas MoreSome folks out there have recently been trying to justify the long list of people executed by Henry VIII because ‘at least they had a trial’ or ‘because it was over religion, and there were always beheadings, pressings, burnings over religion.’ Well, surprisingly, I must agree with them on one thing. Henry sure could be…
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“Henry VIII and his six wives” – Channel Five
“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Arthur “Tudor”, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, Channel Five, Channel Four, Dan Jones, David Starkey, executions, Francis Dereham, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, John Ashdown-Hill, Katherine Howard, pre-contract, Royal Marriage Secrets, Stephen Gardiner, Suzannah Lipscomb, television programmes, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas WolseyThis has been presented by two of Five’s favourite history presenters: Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb. Perhaps the title isn’t the best of starts, as Ashdown-Hill (Royal Marriage Secrets, ch.10, pp.95-113) has shown that Henry may have contracted as few as two valid marriages, the third and sixth ceremonies. Jones begins every episode by reciting…
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(re-blogged from Lissa Bryan’s guest post on The History Geeks, in response to this article) This “new portrait of Anne Boleyn” has been making the rounds in social media, and now is being publicized in several news articles. It is not Anne Boleyn. The sketch that is circulating is a third-hand copy of a painting…
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Arthur Waite, Viscount Lisle was released from the Tower of London in March 1542, having been held on suspicion of high treason for two years. This illegitimate son of Edward IV, as were they all, died of a heart attack the same week. Sir Geoffrey Pole was arrested with some cousins, his brother and his…
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John Guy on More …
“Tudor” justice, Anne Boleyn, biographies, Cambridge, David Starkey, executions, G.R. Elton, Henry VIII, Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford, John Guy, John Paul II, John the Baptist, Katherine Howard, Lord Chancellor, Margaret Roper, National Archives, Robert Bolt, saints, Salome, Stalin, Thomas More, treason… or how a Lord Chancellor fell victim to the King he idolised and one historian stayed loyal to his mentor but another didn’t: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tudor-terror-john-guy-is-on-a-mission-to-bring-history-to-the-masses-876441.html
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Many of the facts about Anne Boleyn are well known nowadays. As the second “wife” of Henry VIII, she was beheaded for treason by adultery in 1536. Their marriage was annulled shortly before her execution but it was quite possibly bigamous anyway and invalid by affinity in that Henry had previously slept with her sister.…
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We have posted before about the lives of noblewomen and how they were almost never executed before the “Tudor” era began – including how King Lear, featuring the death of Cordelia, reflected this changed reality. Here is as near as we can manage to a counter-example from 1003, after the St. Brice’s Day Massacre of…
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