Edward VI

A strange Reformation relic

Jul 5, 2018

humour, law, religion, Science

Act of Supremacy, Archbishop Cranmer, clerical celibacy, clerical marriage, cold weather, Edward VI, Henry VIII, Lewis Carroll, Mary I, mathematics, metaphors, novelists, Oxford University, priesthood, Reformation, thawing

Think of a cold week in this or your own country, with snow. On the last day, it thaws. You look out during the late afternoon and there remains a small patch of snow, in a seemingly random location. In a way, the English Reformation was like this. It began, arguably, in 1534. By the…
Yet another target for the Cairo dwellers

Jun 23, 2018

anniversaries, sources

Admiral Thomas Seymour, Antoine de Noaillles, Chris Skidmore, Christine Hartweg, denialists, Edward II, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward VI, executions, flowers, French embassy, Henri II, Hester Chapman, Isabella de Valois, Jacqueline Reiter, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Chatham, Kathryn Warner, Lord High Admiral, Lord Protector of the Realm, National Archives, Paul Doherty, plants, Richard III, Victoria

Last autumn, we reblogged posts to illustrate that the denialists of the history world, quite apart from their antics with respect to Richard III, quoted an obviously non-existent part of a document about Edward II and cited a book on botany, with reference to John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, that he couldn’t have owned…
THE LOST FONT OF MARLBOROUGH CASTLE

Jun 20, 2018

archaeology, buildings, travel

anarchy, castles, churches, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Edward VI, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Provence, fonts, Henry III, Isabella of Angouleme, John, Marlborough Castle, Marlborough College, Richard I, Seymours, Silbury Hill, St. Nicholas, Stephen, William I, Worcester Cathedral

Marlborough is a quaint little town in Wiltshire. It has a rather famous College (once attended by Kate Middleton) but no buildings dating much before Tudor times other than two heavily restored churches. However, it used to have a castle, and a rather important one too. The first castle was built by William the Conqueror…
Keeping it in the family

May 21, 2018

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Stafford, Armada, Ashby St Ledgers, attainder, Calais, Calvinism, Catherine Dudley, Catherine Pole, Claire Cross, Earl of Leicester, Edward of Buckingham, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, fashion, Flanders, Francis Baron Hastings, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry of Buckingham, James Earl of Morton, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Lincoln, Leicester cathedral, Margaret Clitherow, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Michael K Jones, Northern Earls’ Rebellion, Phillip II, Plantagenet descent, recusants, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Scotland, Sir George Hastings, smallpox, statues, Vaughan porch, William Cecil

You will have seen him if you have been to Richard III’s final resting place. There are eight small statues on the main entrance (the Vaughan Porch, left) of St. Martin’s Cathedral but only one of them is wearing a doublet and hose, showing him to have lived a century later than the others. This is…
Britain’s most historic towns

May 8, 2018

battles, buildings, religion, television reviews

“Tudors”, Alice Roberts, Battle of Bosworth, Belfast, canary, Channel Four, Cheltenham, Chester, ducking stool, Earl of Oxford, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, executions, fools, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Francis Kett, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heresy, Jasper “Tudor”, justice, Kett Rebellion, Lollards’ Pit, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Low Countries, Mary I, medieval clothes, Morris dancing, Mousehold Heath, Norwich, Norwich Guildhall, pubs, punishments, Reformation, refugees, Robert Kett, Shakespeare, sumptuary laws, weavers, Wensum, Will Kemp, Winchester, York

This excellent Channel Four series reached part four on 28th April as Dr. Alice Roberts came to Norwich, showing streets, civic buildings and even a pub that I have previously visited, describing it as Britain’s most “Tudor” town. She began by describing Henry VII as “violently seizing” the English throne (or at least watching whilst…
What happened to Coldharbour on Richard III’s death. . . .?

May 4, 2018

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry

Anne of Exeter, Barnet, british History Online, Coldharbour, College of Heralds, Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham, Edmund Earl of Cambridge, Edward II, Edward IV, Edward VI, Francis Earl of Shrewsbury, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, Henry IV, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Humphrey de Bohun, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Holland, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Mary Stuart, Richard II, Richard III, Sir John Abel, Sir John Poultney, Sir Thomas St. Leger, Westminster Abbey

Yes, another post about Coldharbour (above) which stood in Upper Thames Street, London. But this time it concerns an apparent omission in ownership. It is a known fact that after Bosworth, Henry VII turfed the College of Heralds out of Coldharbour and handed the property over to his mother, Margaret Beaufort. Isn’t it? I mean, there’s…
A truncated reign and a truncated monarch

Jan 15, 2018

anniversaries, art, genealogy, law, religion, television reviews

“Perkin”, “Tudor” genealogy, Acts of Succession, Archbishop Cranmer, BBC, coups d’etat, Dukedom of Clarence, Earl of Leicester, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Framlingham Castle, France, Greys, Helen Castor, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Lord Darnley, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John of Gloucester, Kenninghall, Kirk o’Fields, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Margaret Clifford, Lady Margaret Douglas, Lady Mary Grey, Legitimacy, Leicestershire, letters patent, Lord Guildford Dudley, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Paul Delaroche, Phillip II, portraits, Scotland, Sion, Spain, Stewarts, Streatham portrait, Tower Green, Tower of London, Wyatt Rebellion, Wydevilles

Right at the start of this series, Helen Castor (left) takes a black marker pen and illustrates the cause of the 1553 crisis on a large sheet of paper. Beginning with Henry VII, very few of his legitimate male descendants were alive at the start of that year – eliminating the obvious illegitimate cases, we…
Where to find that “Tudor” Y-chromosome?

Dec 7, 2017

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, Science

“Tudors”, archaelogy, Arthur “Tudor”, DNA evidence, Dukes of Norfolk, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward VI, genealogy, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Hereford Cathedral, Jasper “Tudor”, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Mary Howard, Owain Tudor, St. Michael’s Church Framlingham, Y-chromosome

This very good blog post details the career and planned future of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, who might have succeeded Henry VIII had he not died suddenly at seventeen and a legitimate half-brother been born a year and a quarterlater. It also states his original and current burial places, the latter being St. Michael’s…
When is a King not a King?

Oct 4, 2017

anniversaries, genealogy, law

Charles I, Commonwealth, constitutional monarchy, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward V, Edward VI, Elizabeth Bourchier, executions, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, Lord Protector of the Realm, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Richard I, Richard II, Richard III, Thomas Cromwell

When he is a hereditary head of state under a different title, of course. There are such people around the world today but Britain had them for a few years. The first was Oliver Cromwell, the great-great-great-nephew of Thomas Cromwell. As he was finalising the execution of Charles I in 1649, he announced that “the…
JAMES 1st – A ROYAL GOOSEBERRY

Apr 15, 2017

buildings

Anne, Anne of Denmark, burials, Dean Stanley, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII, James VI/I, James VII/II, Lawrence Tanner, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST AT https://sparkypus.com/2020/07/28/james-ist-royal-gooseberry-in-the-henry-vii-vault/ Entrance to the tomb of Henry Vll as seen on the opening of the vault in 1869. Drawing by George Scarf. How did James I come to be interred in Henry Vll’s vault? Unfortunately it’s not known, but we do know how it was discovered to be the case. In 1868,…