#Earl of Vis

[sw5w]

Theed at Night

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:36:53

I didn't realize Guido's Tower and the Earl of Vis' banqueting rotunda actually appeared in the movie. I thought they were just added in for the Inside the Worlds/Complete Locations maps as filler. Pretty cool! (original scene lightened to show tower and rotunda)

[k-wame]

It's Good To Be King. ↳ King James I & His Gentlemen of The Chamber ↳ MARY & GEORGE (2024) · S1·EP3

[blueberry-bubbles130]

We are back for another historical hypothetical folks!

And this time it is:

Think of it as a Midsomer Murders/Clue style thing.

I don’t have an answer for who the victim is. You can choose anyone you want, for the victim.

[une-sanz-pluis]

Thinking about Henry V attending his first parliament as Prince of Wales at 13 years old and being bored out of his skull and imagining how much worse it would've been for Richard II, who attended his first parliament as Prince of Wales at 9 years old.

Thinking about Henry VI attending parliament as a literal infant too.

[philibetexcerpts]

On 15 December 1948, Prince Charles was christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.

[duranduratulsa]

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[leonisandmurex]

Tickle fight! || William & Charlotte, Lilibet & Margot, Peter & James, Louise & Isla, Charles & William, Diana & William, William, George, Charlotte & Louis, Charles & Diana, Elizabeth & Charles, Catherine & Louis

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby & Sporting, Part Two: 1. Victoria (2016): shooting 2. Maurice (1987): cricket 3. Poirot (2008): snooker 4. An Ideal Husband (1999): golf 5. Shadows In The Sun (2009): biking 6. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): shooting 7. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): tennis 8. You, Me, And It (1993): rugby 9. Lady Godiva (2008): sword fighting 10. A Summer Story (1988): biking

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Here smth I think my rotrk moots will like

[ultimateanna]

Thanks to James Earl Jones for giving voice to the iconic Darth Vader.

1931-2024

[richmond-rex]

Margaret of Anjou had the most intimate interest in the wedding in 1456 of her kinswoman, Marie, daughter of Charles, count of Maine, to Thomas Courtenay, the son and heir of the earl of Devon. That this was a court-contracted marriage is suggested by the fact that Marie's wedding gown was supplied by the king's Great Wardrobe [...] The second notable marriage of 1457 to be arranged at court was that between the king's cousin, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, and her third husband, Henry Stafford, second son of the duke of Buckingham. This additional bond among the king's blood relatives buttressed the Lancastrian regime and the royal family at a time when the survival of the dynasty rested on the young shoulders of Prince Edward, the only son and heir of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret.

— Ralph A. Griffiths, "The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses" | King and Country: England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century

It is, indeed, a striking fact that no aristocratic marriages of comparable significance took place outside the court circle in these crucial years before the onset of civil war. Most — if not all — of those that did take place were probably discussed at court among magnates — Staffords, Courtenays, Beauforts, Talbots, Berkeleys, Butlers, Greys and Percies — who were loyal to the house of Lancaster and prominent at King Henry's court.

[k-wame]

King James I & the Earl of Somerset MARY & GEORGE (2024) · S1·EP3

[blueberry-bubbles130]

Here’s a more grounded historical hypothetical before we get into the truly ridiculous ones:

As always there will be rounds to this poll so I will try to cover more historical figures from around this era. I just tend to start around the War of the Roses/The Tudors because they’re my favourite time periods.

[greensparty]

Remembering James Earl Jones 1931-2024

Sad news today that actor James Earl Jones has died at 93. He had a 60+ year in entertainment. He was an EGOT too!

He will forever be known as the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies. George Lucas wanted David Prowse (who died in 2020) to do the physical performance and Jones to be the powerful voice of the greatest villain in movie history. That's his iconic voice as Vader in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, The Star Wars Holiday Special (got my bootleg DVD!), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, on 5 episodes of Star Wars: Rebels, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, and on the 2022 series Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was uncredited for the first two films and credited thereafter once everyone knew who it was. To say he was a tremendous part of the character and the Star Wars Universe would be a colossal understatement.

Jones and Darth Vader together in 2002

Other notable performances included Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Roots: The Next Generations, Soul Man, Matewan, the King in Coming to America (and it's lesser sequel I got to review in 2021), Field of Dreams, The Hunt for Red October, a cameo in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, the underrated Clean Slate, as the voice of Mufasa in the animated The Lion King and the live action The Lion King.

The link above is the obit from CNN.

[eve-to-adam]

"They tell me they have but two rulers in England. Monsieur de Warwick is one; of the second I have forgotten the name."

[une-sanz-pluis]

Despite the strength of his claim, the anti-Lancastrian groundwork laid by his uncle and namesake in Wales, and his close family ties to the rebellious Percys, Edmund remained oddly inconspicious in the broils of the first quarter of the century. To be sure, his name does surface from time to time, as in the treason case of 1402 involving the Welshman John Sperhawk, who had the misfortune to repeat a rumor he had heard from a certain tailor's wife of Baldock to the effect that the present king was not the true son of Duke John but rather was born to a butcher of Ghent and that the earl of March was in fact king by right. That is the year in which Mortimer's uncle and namesake joined in coalition with Owain Glyndwr, explaining to his tenants his support of Richard if he were alive and otherwise of his nephew as "droit heir." In 1405 Edmund and his brother figured in a bizarre kidnapping attempt in which they were to be abducted from Windsor Castle, apparently to become rallying points for anti-Lancastrian activity, probably with their uncle Edmund in Wales. As late as 1415 one of the options supposedly entertained by the Southampton conspirators against Henry V was (according to Richard, earl of Cambridge's undoubtedly coerced confession) to have had the earl of March "into the lond of Walys … . takyng upon hym the sovereynte of thys lond. " Nevertheless, Edmund's uncle and Richard, earl of Cambridge, and most of the other high-echelon conspirators who mentioned his name, tended to treat Edmund, not as a first conspiratorial resort, but at best as a fallback should Richard really turn out to be dead and no good impersonator present himself. This effective neutralization of Edmund's claim was accomplished in part by the brilliant machinations of the Lancastrians. In a move that conveyed multifold practical and psychological advantages, the newly crowned Henry IV promptly took the young Edmund and his brother Roger into his personal custody. Practically speaking, Henry controlled their extensive lands and rents, and the patent rolls for 1399-1413 abound in his awards of sergeanties, stewardships, custodies, and wardships to Henry's loyal followers. At the same time Henry gained psychological advantage by treating Edmund less as a prisoner than as a child de- pendent; Henry was generous in his annuities (ranging from three hundred to five hundred pounds yearly) and, in the years prior to the attempted abduction of 1405, even boarded the two brothers with his own younger children.

Paul Strohm, "The Trouble with Richard: The Reburial of Richard II and Lancastrian Symbolic Strategy", Speculum, Vol. 71, No. 1 (1996)