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fideidefenswhore · 2 years ago

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what's your opinion on Henry's "other" illegitimate children? not fitzroy or the careys, but fitzroy's sister and stukeley?

I don't think Stukley was, Elizabeth Norton, however, has made salient arguments for Elizabeth Tailboys being the second child of Henry and Bessie Blount. I won't repeat her points, but anyone that is curious can read that article here.

#anon #i'm seeing that the citation for this on his wiki page is kelly hart which...yeah #kelly hart's book is like everyone is henry viii's bastard oprah pointing.gif #but not very convincingly #and often citing w/eir. and then you go to the passage cited from w/eir. and she cites . nothing #or like a 20th century book #or like. a ballad #it really seems like often the argument is henry wasn't generous so these must have all been his kids grwafwhfrjsa #if they were ever granted anything by him or if their mothers were #okay im skimming this blog that mentions him rn...hmm #'edward mary and elizabeth all let him get away with blue murder' well. not really?#elizabeth sent for his arrest and he became an exile #i guess there's the question of how many times can one nobleman be imprisoned but these were all petty crimes ; none treason until after #his exile...#henry howard had been arrested a lot before henry viii had enough #thomas wyatt had also been arrested several times under henry viii and was never executed #and he certainly wasn't his or his father's son... so like . it happened

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