I Think The Idea From Chapuys Was That She Died Of Poison Bcus She Suspected Poison - Tumblr Posts

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Not afaik, and definitely not in 1533. Charles V’s councilors basically said the sum of all evidence/reports showed she was being housed ‘respectably’ for her station and that there was no justification that would merit invading England or cutting off trade with them.

There’s the words of KoA herself also, that her treatment was so poor it was ‘enough to shorten ten lives’ (letter to Charles V in 1531). I think the tendency from historians has been to consider those words as prescient and to take them at face value.

Is there a source other than Chapuys to legitimately suggest that KOA spent her final years living in something like squalor? As far as I know she was living comfortably, just not anything like a queen consort (which would have, understandably, been hard to adjust to after twenty years), but the story/popular belief that her living conditions contributed directly to her death persists.

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which makes one wonder how highly Charles V rated Chapuys as a source or how much his contemporaries did for that matter katherine of aragon I think the idea from Chapuys was that she died of poison bcus she suspected poison but yeah it’s a very strange .... revisionism ? she wasn’t denied physicians of her own choice of anything like that ; again afaik emotional neglect sure as far as being separated from Mary and just you know. isolated generally neglect re: physical health ? idt *idts . also she was granted more freedom of movement than mary idt Mary was able to ‘take the air’ bcus they were worried about her fleeing or being taken as a figurehead and when she did she was pretty closely monitored i believe but Mary also had less freedom bcus it wasn’t her household this was koa’s so it wasn’t quite the same usually made out to be the same but that’s a false equivalency imo

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