Joan Of Arc In Artantonin Merci (1848-1900) / Kay Nielsen (c. 1914) / Jules Bastien-lepage (1879) / Unknown

joan of arc in art antonin mercié (1848-1900) / kay nielsen (c. 1914) / jules bastien-lepage (1879) / unknown artist (1837) / christopher whall (1922) / zoé-laure de chatillon (1869)

For  just  on  sixteen  years,  Eustace  Chapuys  was  the eyes and ears of the Habsburg empire at the Tudor court, writing copious missives on a tumultuous period to Charles V, Mary of Hungary, and, eventually, Charles’s son, Philip. Chapuys’ two missions, from 1529 to 1545, initially saw him charged with defending, unsuccessfully, the claims of Charles’s aunt, Katherine of Aragon, as rightful Queen of England against Henry VIII’s planned annulment, and then, as Mackay argues, as lone champion for her daughter Mary, who was abandoned, in practical terms, even by her cousin Charles. The appointment brought Chapuys into close and regular encounter with a changeable monarch, a number of queens, an evolving line-up of administrators, fellow diplomats, ladies-in-waiting, and merchant communities, whom Chapuys appeared to convince to provide a wealth of information for the Imperial cause. Chapuys, a legally-trained man of the middling sort schooled in the humanist tradition, held admiration, it seems, for others regardless of their religious persuasion, and enjoyed sociable relations most notably with Thomas Cromwell.

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys, by Mackay, Lauren (review). Susan Broomhall.  

chapter 9: anne boleyn in twenty-first-century historical fiction

Anna of Savoy, born Giovanna (1306–1365) was a Byzantine Empress consort, as the second spouse of Andronikos III Palaiologos. She served as regent during the minority of her son from 1341 until 1347.

Mary's triumph has been described as the victory of legitimacy, but the word is misleading in this context. Whatever she might think, it was not the legitimacy of her birth which was proclaimed in July 1553, but the force of her father's will, and of the statute which authorized it. Similarly, the rejection of Northumberland's coup signalled his own  unpopularity, and that of his religious programme, but not a rejection of the whole reforming programme, going back to 1530.

The Reign of Mary Tudor

Now it seems I must cease to call myself Queen. Even though I was crowned so, and anointed. They say if I refuse the King will withdraw his fatherly love for my daughter.

I shall not yield.