Elizabeth I
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For the last few years we’ve been beset by a pandemic. COVID-19 is the new blight on the block, and has set about knocking us down like ninepins in spite of antibiotics and even immunisation. But modern medicine has done a lot to standing up to the silent menace. In times gone by folks…
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Isabella of Castile takes the crown, in more way than one….
“Perkin”, Aragon, artificial insemination, Castile, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine of Lancaster, Catherine the Great, Christopher Columbus, Elizabeth I, Empress Elizabeth, exploration, expulsion of jews, Ferdinand of Aragon, Giles Tremlett, Isabel of Castile, John of Gaunt, Maria Theresa, Moors, Pedro I, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, usurpation, VictoriaThis article lists the top five great European queens as Elizabeth I, Maria Theresa of Austria, the Empress Elizabeth, Catherine the Great and Queen Victoria. Ah, but that’s the top five after Isabella of Castile, who reigned from 1474 until she died in 1504. Isabella snatches this particular crown right under the other ladies’…
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According to this article, “….The Royal Touch and King Edward the Confessor’s healing powers were so well known that, during the reign of Elizabeth I, Shakespeare referenced them in his play Macbeth. This is unsurprising however, as Elizabeth’s grandfather, Henry VII, had reintroduced the concept in the late 15th century….” So, if the Royal Touch was known to have…
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What has MKJ started?
Bonapartists, Bourbons, Brandons, Britain’s Real Monarch, Channel Four, Edward IV, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, France, Francisco Franco, Germany, Greys, Henry VIII, Holy Roman Empire, illegitimacy rumours, Jacobites, James VI/I, Mary I, Matt Baker, Michael Earl of Loudoun, Michael K Jones, Orleanists, Roman Emperors, Russia, Spain, Stewarts, Tony Robinson, wills, You TubeIf you watched Channel Four on the first Saturday evening in January 2003, then you will probably remember Michael K. Jones and Tony Robinson discussing Edward IV‘s possible illegitimacy, followed by Britain’s Real Monarch, an investigation into the King or Queen of England if Edward had not existed or been debarred, leading through the Poles…
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The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is well-known, and it is often thought that the decline of serfdom, or villeinage, began at about this time. The truth is more complex. Like most English traditions, villeinage took a long time to pass and outlived its usefulness by many decades. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I still owned serfs –…
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Ferdinando Stanley (1559-1594) was very briefly 5th Earl of Derby. He was descended from Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, and according to the terms of Henry VIII’s will, which had statutory force in this respect he was the heir to Elizabeth I, since the Scottish branch were excluded. It is worth mentioning that he was…
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Well, it’s interesting to see the top 33 “historically accurate” movies , as voted for in 2017 by IMDb readers. I confess to being disappointed that only three of the medieval period made it to the list (which is in number-of-votes order). Well, three if Elizabeth actually counts as medieval. This last of the Tudor…
