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And finally, a fuckyeah blog for the world's most misunderstood monarch hast arisen!
We all know Henry Tudor the Eight of England as the grotesque, red-headed and bearded womanizer that he became in the last 18 months of his life but my goal will be to bring the truth to all who chose to visit this blog and to prove that while he was a monarch, he was a man also with his own share of insecurities and a jaded childhood that influenced his reign perhaps more then it should have.
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February82013
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3PM
The picture, painted by an unknown artist in the 1520s, shows a woman in red and gold dress, and pearl necklace.
It had been left on display at Lambeth Palace, where scholars assumed it was Henry VIII’s sixth wife Catherine Parr.
Now, following a research visits by experts from the National Portrait Gallery, she has now been correctly identified as Catherine of Aragon, the monarch’s first Spanish wife.
3PM
Hang on, let me put away Henry VIII’s milk!
February42013
LEICESTER, England—Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England’s King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester. - The Wall Street Journal
A Scots-based researcher who instigated a dig for the remains of Richard III says she has persuaded The Hobbit star Richard Armitage to play the king in a proposed new film.- heraldscotland.com [Note that the project is still looking for funding and there is a comment from Richard’s agent at the end of the article.]
“He was born to play the role,” she explains. “He’s an amazing doppelganger for Richard III, he was born a couple of miles from Bosworth on the anniversary of Richard’s death, and he was even named after him.” - cnn.com
Richard Armitage about Richard III:
“I’m excited to hear about the finding of this DNA, I’ve watched it with interest.” “Richard III, now that’s a play. I was named after him. My father’s a historical fanatic about his character and I’ve inherited that enthusiasm, but I know by the time I get the chance I’ll be too old and too tall to play the role. I’d somehow like to realise that part of history.” -Leicester Mercury, Saturday, December 12, 2012.
More about Richard III & the found remains:
Richard III: The twisted bones that reveal a king - bbc.co.uk
University of Leicester - Richard III
It’s him: skeleton found in car park is that of Richard III – live coverage -guardian.co.uk
Richard III’s Remains Found In Council Car Park -news.sky.com
ALSO: Please support Richard Armitage‘s dream project by signing the petition on kingrichardarmitage.rgcwp.com/
3PM
The remains of King Richard III, immortalized Shakespearean villain and infamous despot, were found under a parking lot last August by a group of archaeologists from the University of Leicester and officially announced in a press conference this morning.
“The team’s genetic analysis reinforced the link to Richard III: DNA was extracted from bone samples and compared with modern-day mitochondrial DNA from two direct descendants of Richard III’s family, including an anonymous donor as well as Michael Ibsen, a Canadian-born cabinetmaker who is a 17th-generation descendant of Richard III’s eldest sister, Anne of York.
‘The DNA evidence points to these being the remains of Richard III,’ said Turi King, a geneticist at the University of Leicester. She said additional DNA tests were still in progress.” [Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News]
Archaeology, science, history, and literature - all liberal arts fields - all converging in one epic story.
What would happen if we stopped supporting these areas? How many new discoveries would we miss?
1AM
Hope Is Not Crazy: Henry VIII's first divorce ...
So I’m watching The Tudors after having read She-Wolves and I just don’t get why Henry went about the divorce with the argument that he’d married his brother’s wife when clearly he and Catharine were cousins, I think close enough that the…
Which isn’t exactly unheard of but it’s at this point that the Spanish line begins to separate itself from Europe and tries to become…well, Spain. Take Katharine of Aragon’s parents for example, coming together to combine the separate kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. Basically from John of Gaunt onwards until the Kingdoms of Spain were formally united under Charles V, Spain kind of dipped out of European affairs to get their own crap together.
February32013
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11PM
Henry VIII’s first divorce …
So I’m watching The Tudors after having read She-Wolves and I just don’t get why Henry went about the divorce with the argument that he’d married his brother’s wife when clearly he and Catharine were cousins, I think close enough that the church would normally forbid their marriage. And plenty of queens had been put aside under the claim of consanguinity before, so I just don’t get why Henry was all about how she was married to his brother first.
The issue with that is, that Henry and Katharine were 3rd or 4th cousins descended by John of Gaunt. The connection was much more brief than most in a Europe where all the lines were mixed and crossed between royal families, infact, Henry was said to be distantly related to all of his wives through Edward I! In a world where these connections were so common, a claim of consanguinity between a 3rd or 4th cousin of a descendent who lived over a hundred years before probably would not have flown and they did not need a dispensation for relation to become married, instead a dispensation since Katharine had been married to Arthur. Thus, comes the legal jargon of whether they were really married and the marriage was consumated, yatta, yatta…
I mean, think of it in these terms, Katharine of Aragon’s nephew, Charles V was betrothed to Princess Mary (his cousin) and he himself was so inbred that he suffered from a condition called ‘Prognathism’ also known as ‘The Hapsburg Jaw’ in which a person’s lower jaw is so prominent that it interferes with speech and eating. To be married to a third or fourth cousin in these days was a blessing, but hey, those are just my thoughts.
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