Prophecy Was A Traditional Component Of English Pageantry, Especially Processionsat Anne Boleyns Coronation

“Prophecy was a traditional component of English pageantry, especially processions…at Anne Boleyn’s coronation entry, poetry recited during the event repeatedly hailed her as the Just Virgin out of Virgil’s ‘Fourth Eclogue’ who brings in a golden age.”

— Predicting Elizabeth: Prophecy on Progress. Rachel Kapelle.

Jane Seymour + crowns in The Tudors(TV Series)

Portrait of Catherine of Aragon, Juan de Flandes, ca. 1496.

Hello! I really want to start getting into the fandom (14 15 16 centuries England) and i also want to learn history. What are 5he best books and articles about it, and where can i learn history if i am not from England?

Thank you kind Tudor bitch Xx

Hi there!

I mean, I basically mainly know Tudor stuff but I’ll mine and see what I can find / rec ...

I’ve also answered this to a degree in other asks, so I’ll link those:

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And then, the last university level thing I did, was a 20-page research paper on the historiography of the relationship of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Before that, it was a research paper on the historiography of Henry VIII (particularly through the lens of how, why, and in what terms and language he was regarded as ‘monstrous’), and before that, it was a presentation on the Great Matter.

Here is part of the bibliography for the above:

Benger, E. (1821). Memoirs of the life of Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII. By Miss Benger, author of memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, John Tobin, &c. In two volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row.

Cavendish, George, and Samuel Weller Singer. 1825. The life of Cardinal Wolsey. London: For Harding, Triphook, and Lepard.

Froude, J. (1856). History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Gowing, L. (2017). Gender Relations in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, p.17.

Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Mary Clark, Anne Mearne, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Faithorne. 1683. The life and reign of King Henry the Eighth.

Hume, D. (1778). History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688.

Kewes, P. (2005). The uses of history in early modern England. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.

Sander, N. (1877). Rise and growth of the Anglican schism ... Published A.D. 1585, with a continuation of the history, by the Rev. Edward Rishton, B.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford. Translated, with introduction and notes, by David Lewis, M.A.. London: Burns and Oates.

Strickland, A. (1868). Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest, Vol II.. 2nd ed. London: Bell and Daldy, p.271.

Woolf, Daniel R. 2005. Reading history in early modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Wyatt, G., Wyatt, T. and Loades, D. (1968). The Papers of George Wyatt Esquire, of Boxley Abbey in the county of Kent, son and heir of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger ; ed. for the Royal Historical Society by D.M. Loades. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, p.21.

Well, a start, at least. I will unearth my USB drive to find the rest.

Owen Tudor was born in Anglesey, Wales around 1400. Owen was born into one of the most powerful families in Wales, although like many, their influence had been greatly reduced by Edward I’s conquest and the family’s loyalty to Welsh independence. Owen was descended from Welsh kings on both sides of his family. During the Glyndwr rebellion of 1401, Owen’s father and uncles sided with Owain Glndwr as he was their maternal cousin. The Tudur brothers were loyal to the last, Owen’s uncle Rhys as executed in 1412 and their lands were confiscated by the crown, Owen’s father Maredudd disappears from record after 1405, but it would seem likely he did not live long after.

Not much is known about Owen’s early life, it has been suggested he may have been one of Welshman who served with Henry V at the battle of Agincourt, Owen was certainly in the service of the king by 1421. It is known that Owen served the young dowager queen, Catherine of Valois as her keeper of household or wardrobe. After her husband’s death Catherine lived at Leeds Castle, where she was more or less forgotten about and had no official role in her young son’s reign and was forbidden by parliament to marry again without their approval. Sometime between 1427 and 1430 Catherine and Owen fell in love and married secretly, their marriage was not made public until 1432 and was not received well, although Owen was granted the rights of an Englishman.

Owen and Catherine had 3 to 4 children, their sons, Edmund and Jasper, and it is likely they had at least one daughter Margaret who may have died young or became a nun, and a son Edward who also joined the clergy. The existence of Margaret and Edward remain inconclusive however. Catherine died in 1437, after her death Owen was left without protection and was imprisoned in Newgate which he would escaped from twice. Eventually Edmund and Jasper were received at court as their half-brother Henry VI who was very fond of them.

Owen supported Henry VI against Henry’s cousin the Duke of York, in what would become the 30- year conflict of the War of the Roses, Owen fought at the battle of Mortimer’s Cross in 1461, where he was captured and quickly and illegally put to death by Edward of York, the future Edward IV. However his grandson Henry Tudor would become the eventual victor at the Battle of Bosworth on August 22nd, 1485, making Owen the direct ancestor of every English monarch since.

Every Emma Connell moment as Anne Boleyn: 46/?