1/? tudor aesthetics:

⎯ henry vii and elizabeth of york

"It is possible that Elizabeth’s cultural influence has been underestimated; the chivalric influence at her husband’s and her son’s court derived from her Burgundian family, and she shared a measure of literary interest with her mother."

Hannah Todd as Elizabeth of York | happy bday @richmond-rex 🤍!!

"The man stands forth against the background of the Wars of the Roses a curiously modern figure, almost, one might say, the first of the moderns among English monarchs."

Jack Farthing as Henry VII | happy bday @richmond-rex 🤍!!

i made a thread on twitter about eoy/h7 because MY BABIIIIES!!!!

so if you could like/retweet it please :)))

here :

“To aid his wife on her final rite of passage, Henry VII had already ordained 636 masses to be said for her soul. According to the financial accounts of the funeral £240 in alms were to be distributed by her almoner, although the narrative account suggests that far more was distributed in subsequent days. Such bounty inevitably enhanced perceptions of the queen’s own generosity, regardless of whose treasury it actually came from.”

— Joanna L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 (via richmond-rex)

[On 11 February 1503 Elizabeth of York died in the aftermath of childbirth on her 37th birthday] Her death provoked in Henry a visceral response (…). Surrounded by a clutch of his close servants in mourning black, ‘he privily departed to a solitary place to pass his sorrows and would no man should resort to him’. There, he disappeared, up flights of stairs, through the succession of public chambers and galleries into the building’s heart, his privy chamber, where he collapsed.

—Thomas Penn, The Winter King

         Sharlto Copley as older!Henry VII          Freya Mavor as Elizabeth of York

The birth of ELIZABETH OF YORK in THE WHITE QUEEN (2013) | 1X02 — The Price of Power

"She's a beautiful girl. We will love her very well."

brought someone some happiness left this world a little better just because i was here.

THE DUDLEYS according to Starz

Edmund Dudley, president of King Henry VII's council as portrayed by Morgan Jones in The Spanish Princess John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland head of King Edward VI's council as portrayed by Jamie Parker in Becoming Elizabeth Guildford Dudley, later consort to Jane Grey, disputed Queen of England as portrayed by Jacob Avery in Becoming Elizabeth Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, the longtime favourite of Queen Elizabeth I who often acted as her unofficial consort as portrayed by Jamie Blackley in Becoming Elizabeth

“The backgrounds of Elizabeth and Henry could hardly be more different, making psychological explanations of the bond they forged—and a bond it certainly was—difficult. They did, however, share the experience of political uncertainty that precluded any sense of personal security. Perhaps they sought that security in each other. Certainly the scribe’s report of their response to Arthur’s death reveals the intensity of their  b o n d   and their shared love.”

– Professor Arlene Okerlund

The new Earl of Richmond was born on 28 January 1457, two months after his father’s death. The birth was extremely difficult for Margaret, small-framed at thirteen, and it looked as if both mother and child would die.

- Henry VII the Maligned Tudor King

His spirit was distinguished, wise and prudent; his mind was brave and resolute and never, even in moments of great danger deserted him

-Polydore Vergil

Jodie Comer as Elizabeth of York THE WHITE PRINCESS (2017)

this is just straight up stupid

james vi also based his right to the throne through henry vii, any kind of lauding of richard iii these people imagine was secretly happening would have been insulting to james just as much as it would be to elizabeth i or henry viii

2. english subjects made all kinds of comments on henry viii and anne boleyn's marriage, some of them were punished for it, some weren't but they were not afraid to say what they thought, tudor england was not a 1984 surveillance state, people talked shit about the king all the time

“When Henry shifted from neutrality to opposing France in Brittany and Flanders, thereby reviving the Anglo-Burgundian-Breton axis against France, it was Charles VIII who supported Yorkist conspiracies to neutralise Henry and punish him for his ingratitude. In 1490–91, the French encouraged two failed plots to murder Henry VII, and then they became involved with a new Yorkist impostor, Perkin Warbeck, who appeared in Ireland in late 1491 masquerading as Richard, duke of York, Edward IV’s youngest son. Charles VIII’s support for the impostor was a factor in Henry’s 1492 war against France, and included in the treaty of Étaples was Charles’s promise not to support Henry’s rebels. After the peace was signed, Charles expelled Warbeck from France.”

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John M. Currin, “England’s International Relations 1485–1509: Continuities amidst Change” | Tudor England and Its Neighbours (via richmond-rex)

During the mid-1490s, Warbeck was used by Maximilian and then by James IV of Scotland to create trouble for Henry. Warbeck accompanied James during his invasion of England in September 1496. There was no Yorkist uprising, and after a bit of looting and pillaging, James withdrew his army. The pretender’s value in Scottish diplomacy depreciated rapidly, and in 1497 James expelled him from Scotland.

On this day (17 November) in 1558, Mary I died, leaving the throne of England to her half-sister, 25-year-old Elizabeth Tudor. Bastardized daughter of an executed queen, Elizabeth was an unlikely candidate to rule, and had to survive numerous intrigues which brought down those around her, coming near to execution herself as a Protestant alternative to her Catholic sister. Her reign would be the longest of her Tudor predecessors, bringing a period of stability, culture, and prosperity to England remembered now as the Elizabethan Age.

According to legend, the messengers to Hatfield House delivering news of Mary’s death found the new queen under an oak tree; on learning she had, against all odds, become queen, Elizabeth proclaimed “This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”

I read that Richard III's settlement with Elizabeth Woodville included her returning to the palace, but she refused?

Under the settlement of March 1, 1484 Elizabeth was given an annuity of 700 marks per year to be paid to her by John Nesfield (one of Richard's squires) who was put in charge of her. There is nothing in the document/proclamation that indicates that Elizabeth was offered anything else. Personally i doubt that Elizabeth was offred a place at court because Crowland chronicle tells us that Elizabeth was "urged by frequent intercessions and dire threats’ from Richard to leave the sanctuary and she only agreed on the condition that he expressly guaranteed her daughters safety and would provide for them swearing an official oath before "lords spiritual and temporal” and the aldermen of London that that if the girls left sanctuary, he would see to it that they would be in ‘surety of their lives’ and not be ‘imprisoned within the Tower of London or other prison’. Rather, they would be put in ‘honest places of good name & fame’ and would be married to ‘gentlemen born’; the king would provide dowries for them of 200 marks per year. Elizabeth was called in that oath "Elizabeth Gray late calling herself Queen of England". Here is an excerpt from the oath (in Elizabeth of York bio by Arlene Okerlund):

"…promise and swear on the word of a king, and upon these holy evangelies [Gospels] of God, by me personally touched, that if the daughters of Dame Elizabeth Grey, late calling herself Queen of England, that is, Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Katherine, and Bridget, will come unto me out of the sanctuary of Westminster, and be guided, ruled, and demeaned after me, then I shall see that they shall be in surety of their lives, and also not suffer any manner hurt in their body by any manner [of] person or persons to them, or any of them in their bodies and persons by way of ravishment or defouling contrary to their wills, not them or any of them imprison within the Tower of London or other prison; but that I shall put them in honest places of good name and fame, and them honestly and courteously shall see to be founden and entreated, and to have all things requisite and necessary for their exhibitions [display] and findings [domestic arrangements] as my kinswomen…

As you can see Elizabeth's primary concern was the safety (that they will not be put in Tower or any other prison) and the well being of her daughters that were with her in the sanctuary by then already a year. It doesn't seem that she was looking for a return to court of the man who for a fact ordered to execute her brother and her younger son by her first marriage and under whose supervision her other two son have "vanished".