Catherine of Aragon
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A constitutionally important “Tudor” servant
Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Askew, Battle of Preston, Catherine of Aragon, Civil War, Colchester, Court of Augmentations, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Earls of Warwick, Edmund Bonner, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Essex, executions, Felsted, Henry VIII, Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Fisher, John Hurt, Kimbolton Castle, Leez Priory, Marian persecution, Mary I, Parliament, Paul Scofield, Robert Bolt, siege of Colchester, Sir Richard Rich, Speakers of the Commons, St. Neots, Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, torture, Tower of London, WalesWe tend to have rather a negative view of Sir Richard Rich, or Baron Rich of Leez as he became in February 1547, nowadays. In this, we are somewhat influenced by Robert Bolt’s portrayal of him, as a “betrayer” of More, together with the history of Trevor-Roper. One Bolt line, memorably delivered by Paul Scofield…
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Anne Boleyn and then Katherine Howard thought they had married Henry VIII. Then he annulled them both, as he did with his first and fourth weddings, such that they were deemed to have been invalid from the start. However, he had these second and fifth Queens executed for treason in that they committed adultery whilst…
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Sooo….her guilty secret is finally revealed. According to this post , Anne Neville was a Tudor! No wonder she‘s shocked…and Richard is giving her a sideways look. Oh, dear.
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Is it time to exhume Cardinal Wolsey?
Abbey Park, burial sites, Catherine of Aragon, Grand Union Canal, Henry VIII, high treason, Ipswich, King’s Great Matter, Leicester Abbey, Leicester cathedral, Leicester Greyfriars, Richard III, Richard Pescall, Soar, St. Margaret’s Church Leicester, St. Nicholas’ Street Ipswich, Thomas Wolsey, Wolsey’s Gate, YorkThomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich, apparently in March 1473, to Joan Daundy and Robert Wolsey, who seems to have been a butcher and may possibly have been killed at Bosworth. Opposite his birthplace, in St. Nicholas’ Street, is this seated statue (below). His local achievements include Wolsey’s Gate and, after about 475 years, the…
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Channel 5’s “Inside the Tower of London”
“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Ceremony of the Lilies and Roses, Channel Five, Charles II, coins, Colonel Blood, Colonel Thomas Blood, Constable of the Tower, crown jewels, Domenico Mancini, Duke of Wellington, Eton, executions, exhibitions, Germany, Guido Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Henry III, Henry VI, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, James VI/I, Jason Watkins, Josef Jacobs, King’s College Cambridge, Kray twins, Leonora Cohen, Long Cross Penny, More, Peasants’ Revolt, pre-contract, ravens, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, Royal Mint, Rudolf Hess, Simon of Sudbury, Sir Walter Raleigh, St. Gregory’s, Tower of London, Tracy Borman, Westminster Abbey, William IThis four-part series is narrated by Jason Watkins and heavily features Tracy Borman, Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. The first part dealt with the Peasants’ Revolt, which resulted in Simon of Sudbury‘s beheading and Borman travelled to St. Gregory’s in his home town to view the preserved head. She spoke about the animals…
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As so often happens, acquiring a book for a specific reason leads to something else that is quite thought-provoking. In this case, the book is The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones, in which the subject of one of the eighteen contributions is Catherine of Aragon and her two marriages. Do not…
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Recently I came across a portrait of Henry VIII that I had not seen before–certainly it is one of the lesser known ones. Ar first glance, the painting appears to be of a youth, pudgy-faced and beardless (with some similarities to portraits of Edward IV around the tip of the nose, eyes and mouth)–however, a…
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GREENWICH PALACE – HUMPHREY DUKE OF GLOUCESTERS PALACE OF PLEAZANCE
“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne Mowbray, Bermondsey Abbey, Burgundy, Canterbury, Catherine of Aragon, Charles II, Edward I, Eleanor Cobham, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Wydeville, enclosures, Ghent, Greenwich Castle, Greenwich Palace, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Humphrey of Gloucester, Jane Lady Grey of Ruthin, Joan Lady Strange, Margaret of Anjou, Mary I, Mary of York, Placentia Palace, Princenhof, Richard of Shrewsbury, Royal Observatory, Sheriff Hutton, Society of Antiquaries, St. george’s Chapel, Stuarts, WydevillesHumphrey Duke of Gloucester from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book A print by an unknown artist now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich depicting the Palace c 1487. Greenwich Palace, or Placentia as it is often known, was built around 1433 by Henry V’s brother, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, who named it Bella Court after…
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ST MARY’S CHURCH, FAIRFORD: ROYAL PORTRAITS
Arthur “Tudor”, Bere Regis, Catherine of Aragon, churches, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Betjeman, John Morton, John Tame, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret “Tudor”, Mary “Tudor”, Nikolaus Pevsner, Queen of Sheba, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Solomon, Thomas WolseySt Mary’s, Fairford, Gloucestershire. ‘A complete and perfect Perpendicular church’ and famous for it fine collection of medieval glass. Described in Betjeman’s Best British Churches as ‘a complete and perfect Perpendicular’ church(1) this beautiful wool church was rebuilt by John Tame, a wool merchant from Gloucester , in the late 15th Century to replace a…
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Llanthony Secunda is so-called because the Augustinian monks of the Vale of Eywas in the Black Mountains of Wales were driven from their original home, beautiful Llanthony Priory, and retreated to Gloucester, where they built this second priory. I have taken the following from a page at http://www.llanthonysecunda.org/: “Gloucester was an important city in medieval…
