#Edmund IV

[lepreuxchevalier]

My latest illustration of a knight I retouched to feature the signature colours and faction iconography of “House Lyonheart,” the ruling, dynastic house of “The Kingdom of Albion” in my low-fantasy setting. Both this artwork and it’s associated faction iconography were designed for a low-fantasy world of my original conception, with technology and material culture roughly equivalent to the late medieval and renaissance periods of European history. Where formations of heavily armoured and mounted knights in either suits of full plate armour or heavy coats of chainmail fight alongside professional armies of pikemen and matchlock musketeers. Where medieval-style stone castles are gradually being outsourced in favour of both sumptuous country estates and devoted military fortifications, or “bastions,” due to the technological advancements being made in artillery design. And where fledgling nation-states in the form of both kingdoms and empires look beyond the great oceans and the frontiers of the known world in search of even greater wealth and territory. In context to the canon lore of my low-fantasy world, “House Lyonheart” is the reigning, dynastic house of “The Kingdom of Albion.” An island kingdom loosely inspired by late medieval and early modern England under the Lancaster, Tudor, and Stuart kings, while also drawing fictional sources of inspiration from “Ulthuan,” or the land of the “Asur” or “High Elves” from Warhammer Fantasy as well as “The Kingdom of The Westerlands” under House Lannister in Game of Thrones. “The Kingdom of Albion,” under the hereditary, dynastic rule of the kings of “House Lyonheart,” practices a limited from of consensual government known as “constitutional monarchy.” An unusual form of monarchy where the military, executive, legislative, and fiscal power and authority of the Kings of Albion from House Lyonheart are limited by the constitutional “rule of law,” ultimately derived from the voluminous bodies of “Albionic Common Law” and governed by the constitutional mandates of “The Magna Rhetra” as well as thoroughly regulated by a bicameral legislative body known as “parliament.” Albionic Parliament as the chief, national, legislative body of The Kingdom of Albion consists of an upper “House of Lords” containing official representatives of the greater and lesser dynastic houses of feudal aristocracy and nobility within The Kingdom of Albion, as well as high-ranking ecclesiastical and monastic offices of “The Conservative Church of The New Gods” as the official, state religion of The Kingdom of Albion, as well as a lower “House of Commons,” containing elected representatives of the country gentlemen, the bourgeoisie, and the merchant guilds within The Kingdom of Albion. “The House of Lords” as the senior, upper legislative house of Albionic Parliament was officially formed in the aftermath of a baronial revolt against Edward Shortsword as the 31st King of Albion and Head of House Lyonheart following his calamitous and failed “Wars of Aquitanian Succession” to usurp Maison Williamson as the reigning, dynastic house of Aquitanian Monarchs, alongside the subsequent drafting of “The Magna Rhetra” as a codified constitution governing the voluminous bodies of “Albionic Common Law” that were first codified and implemented by Albionic court scribes and clergymen under the reign of “Artorius the Lyonhearted” as the culturally Southern Aquitanian son and heir apparent to “Hengist Skullsmasher,” The First King of Albion and The Founding Head of House Lyonheart. “The House of Commons” as the lower, junior legislative house of Albionic Parliament, by contrast, was officially formed during the reign of Robert III as the 40th and late King of Albion and the former head of House Lyonheart in the wake of a massive peasant uprising agitated by over 10 years of brutal taxation to repay the extortionate king’s ransom imposed on Robert III by the court representatives of Maison Williamson as the reigning, dynastic household of Aquitanian Monarchs following his capture by the forces of Prince Tancred Williamson, Duc de Chambord in The Battle of Tourangeau, and the subsequent drafting of “The Treaty of Fontainebleau” officially concluding the last Albionic invasion of Le Royaume d’Aquitaine. The Kingdom of Albion’s system of constitutional monarchy and parliamentary legislature is a truly unique and exclusive model of government and society in a world where all monarchs and hereditary, dynastic princes based on the continental mainland of “The Civilized World” aspire to the example of “Maison Williamson du Royaume d’Aquitaine” as the “paragon,” “exemplar,” “ideal,” or otherwise “model” of a strong, powerful, prestigious, prolific, and illustrious “absolute monarchy.” A model of absolute monarchy that is distinctly characterized by a combination of their ancient, carefully cultivated and manicured political and religious alliance forged with “The Conservative Church of The New Gods” based in The Holy Sept of Romulus as the former capital, civilizational kernel, and titular namesake of both The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic and “The Empire of Mankind Primus” that once dominated the vast majority of “The Known World” during the long forgotten epoch of “Classical Antiquity.” The superimposition of “The Aquitanian Parlements,” or “royal law courts,” over the provincial jurisdiction of both the feudal, aristocratic, legal traditions and customs of Northern Aquitaine, which collectively descend from the synthesis of Teutogen Tribal Customs with Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan legal traditions and jurisprudence, as well as the old, Classical Romulan law codes of Southern Aquitaine. With both forms of Regional Aquitanian Law being ultimately left over from the closing centuries of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan “Empire of Mankind Primus” and it’s gradual, eventual collapse at the hands of Teutogen, Norscan, and Moravian tribal invaders during the twilight of “Classical Antiquity” in the long and storied, recorded histories of “The Civilized World.” And the creation of The Civilized World’s first national, professional, state-funded, “royal” army since the historic mass mutiny and the consequent, official dissolution of The Romulan Legions of Classical Antiquity under the Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind “Demetrius Superbus” as the Classical Romulan Imperator who first prescribed “The Faith of The New Gods” based on the old, Classical Romulan rite and liturgy originally formalized and decreed in the theological reforms traditionally attributed to the Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind “Cassadorian the Great” as the official “state religion” of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan “Empire of Mankind Primus.” His official founding of “The Conservative Church of The New Gods” as an administrative institution, or “organ,” within the civil magistracy of The Classical Romulan Empire of Mankind, and his equally historical and infamous “land donation” with the consequent consecration and the construction of the first “Holy Sept” in Romulus. The Kingdom of Aquitaine’s national, professional, state-funded, “royal army” was created using the administrative, legislative, and fiscal power and support of “The Aquitanian Parlements,” or “royal law courts,” at the expense of the feudal, private, aristocratic levies of Le Royaume d’Aquitaine’s “great houses” of “feudal princeps” or “feudal magnates.” Although officially subscribed to “The Conservative Church of The New Gods” based on the old, Classical Romulan rite and liturgy originally formalized and decreed under the Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind “Cassadorian the Great” during his “Cassadorian Reforms,” and officially seated within “The Holy Sept” of the old capital, civilizational nucleus, and titular namesake of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic and “The Empire of Mankind Primus” since the original founding of The Conservative Church of The New Gods as an administrative institution, or “organ” within the Classical Romulan civil magistracy by the Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind “Demetrius Superbus.” The Kingdom of Albion under the hereditary reign of Edmund IV as The 41st and Reigning King of Albion and The Current Head of House Lyonheart has officially opened The Kingdom of Albion’s borders to religious asylum for any religious subscribers to The “Reformed” Faith of The New Gods based on the theological reforms officially preached and published by Karl Von Luxembourg, a learned doctor of theology based at The University of Wörtzburch within The Empire of Mankind Proper, as well as the former heir apparent and the official head of “Hohenluxembourg Des Königreich Schönbrunn.” The only hereditary monarchy within The Empire of Mankind Secundus besides “the hereditary state” and “the dynastic house” of The Emperor-Elect, himself. As well as religious subscribers to any of The “Dissenter” Faiths of The New Gods ideologically descended from “The Dissenter Theology” of the Aquitanian vagabond Cassyon Dufresne, a more radical theological reformer officially seated in The Cathedral of Les Œillets in “The Borderlands Confederacy” of culturally “Austere” or “Northern Imperial” states strategically situated between “Der Reichstaat” or “Nymphenburg” as the hereditary state of “The Imperial Household.” “The Exclusive” or otherwise “the preferential” candidates for the formal elections for the title of “Emperor of Mankind,” and “Die Markgrafschaft Brannenborg” under “Hohenbiermann.” The last, and arguably the most reluctant constituent member state and hereditary, dynastic, “great house” of “Imperial Princeps” or “Imperial Magnates” within The Empire of Mankind Proper since the stunning and final conclusion of “The Albic Crusade” waged against the apostate, Albic tribes religiously subscribed to the druidic, cult worship of “Erdøk” or “The Great Forest” east of The Empire of Mankind Proper and indigenous to “The Southern Imperial March” or “Die Sudetenmark.” The climactic “Siege of Brenna,” and the consequential, de jure installment of the great Imperial general Friedrich Biermann as “Der erster Markgraf von Brannenborg und Der Gründungschef von Hohenbiermann” over the lands originally pawned and then permanently transferred by the illegitimate issue of The Late House Bartholemew as The Last King of The Midlands to “The Imperial Household” as the hereditary, “Imperial Princeps” or “Imperial Magnates” for “Der Reichstaat” or “Nymphenburg.” Despite officially opening The Kingdom of Albion’s borders to religious asylum for any religious subscribers to the multitude, or the plethora of “Reformed” and “Dissenter” churches of The New Gods fleeing religious persecution and marginalization at the hands of religiously Conservative monarchs and aristocrats. The fourteen year old Edmund IV had already been officially proclaimed as “The Defender of The Faith” by the elderly and ailing Archpatriarch Vexillarius IV as “The 299th and Reigning Bishop of Romulus” and “The Current Head of The Conservative Church of The New Gods” for his written thesis’ openly condemning the theological reforms of Karl Von Luxembourg as the titular “Great Reformer” to the religious establishment of, and the institutions of organized religion within The Conservative Church of The New Gods, as well as Edmund IV’s own maternal grandfather Friedrich I, “Der erster und herrschend König von Middenland und Der Gründungschef von Hohenrotbart” and his older cousin Albrecht Von Biermann, “Der herrschend Markgraf von Brannenborg,” “Der momentan Chef von Hohenbiermann,” and secular, hereditary “Kurfürst Des Selbst Kaiserreich der Menscheit” for their combined actions in both forcibly and unlawfully confiscating the lands, property, and treasuries of any ecclesiastical and monastic clergy of The Conservative Church of The New Gods based within Das Königreich Middenland and Die Markgrafschaft Brannenborg, respectively, for openly refusing to submit before the formal renunciation of their spiritual ties of fealty to The Holy Sept in Romulus as the first and second hereditary, dynastic rulers in both the recorded histories and the geographic enormity of “The Known World” to formally decree state legislation to officially convert to “The Luxembourgian Reformation” on behalf of both their houses and their subjects. The Kingdom of Albion’s unique and exclusive model of “constitutional monarchy” and “parliamentary legislature,” although severely limiting the military, executive, legislative, fiscal, and religious ambitions of House Lyonheart as the reigning dynasty of Kings of Albion. Especially by contrast to the aspiring absolute monarchies and aristocracies based on the continental mainland of “The Civilized World.” The hereditary subjects to The Kings of Albion from House Lyonheart are unironically exempt from all the extortionate taxation and brutal economic recessions that inherently coincide with the perpetual warfare, cutthroat political intrigues, and brutal religious upheaval that characterize daily life on the continental mainland of The Civilized World. With Albionic Parliament’s persistence on consistently vetoing any taxation officially levied by state representatives of the crown in order to fuel House Lyonheart’s continental ambitions. Edmund IV as The 41st and Reigning King of Albion and The Current Head of House Lyonheart has used the legal restrictions imposed upon him by the constitutional mandates of The Magna Rhetra and Albionic Parliament to conceive of a policy of overseas colonialism and maritime trade. By granting “letters of marque” or “colonial charters” to “trade companies” of merchants, traders, and professionals willing to invest their own capital in order to found and develop colonies and territories in overseas trade theatres, Edmund IV, as The 41st and Reigning King of Albion and The Current Head of House Lyonheart has essentially developed a far more efficient, or otherwise effective alternative policy to pursing House Lyonheart’s traditional, historic military and territorial ambitions against the monarchs and princes based on the continental mainland of “The Civilized World.” A policy that Albionic Parliament, and above all the country gentlemen, bourgeoisie, and merchant guilds collectively represented within the lower, junior “House of Commons” are far more willing to support as the chief, national, legislative body of The Kingdom of Albion. These “letters of marque” or “colonial charters,” as officially granted by Edmund IV as The 41st and Reigning King of Albion and The Current Head of House Lyonheart would essentially grant “trade companies” of merchants, traders, and professionals legally exclusive monopolies in overseas trade theatres to found and develop overseas colonies and territories in order to facilitate maritime trade back with The Kingdom of Albion, while also being granted a significant degree of political and military autonomy over any acquired and developed overseas colonial territories. Amongst the largest, most lucrative overseas colonial possessions officially founded and developed by The Kingdom of Albion’s and House Lyonheart’s “trade companies” include “New Albion” under “The King’s Landing Trade Company,” as well as “Arcadia” under “The World’s End Trade Company.” To secure the lucrative trade established between any overseas colonies and territories officially founded and developed by his majesty’s “trade companies” with The Kingdom of Albion, Edmund IV as The 41st and Reigning King of Albion and The Current Head of House Lyonheart has diverted most of the annual, national, state budget for The Kingdom of Albion’s traditionally strong, standing military in favour of founding and developing a national, professional, state-funded, “royal” navy, in contradiction to the traditional and historical policies of all Kings of Albion before him. Edmund IV has also “subsidized,” or otherwise “invested in” local merchant guilds devoted to the construction of ships and the production of maritime goods and resources on an industrial scale to give both his growing professional navy and his trade companies the necessary assets they need in order to both secure and facilitate the lucrative trade established between any acquired and developed overseas colonies and territories with The Kingdom of Albion, itself. Despite, or rather because of Edmund IV’s policy of overseas colonialism and maritime trade, as well as the necessity of both financing and developing a growing professional navy at the expense of The Kingdom of Albion’s traditionally strong, standing army. Specifically for the purpose of securing any maritime trade lanes officially established between The Kingdom of Albion with it’s multitude, or plethora of overseas colonial possessions. The Kingdom of Albion under the hereditary, dynastic reign of House Lyonheart oddly continues to employ peasant levies of billmen and longbowmen in an age where both the continental, mainland states of “The Civilized World,” as well as their reigning, dynastic houses of monarchs and aristocratic princes have moved on to employing professional regiments of pikemen and matchlock musketeers as the line, core, and bulk of their campaigning armies. However, in likeness to the continental states based on the mainland of “The Civilized World,” as well as the reigning, dynastic houses that rule them. The Kingdom of Albion under the hereditary, dynastic rule of House Lyonheart has successfully outsourced it’s antiquated arsenal of classical and feudal-style windlass artillery pieces such as ballistae, catapults, trebuchets, mangonels, and onagers with the more novel, yet far more potent and brutally efficient gunpowder-based, siege artillery pieces such as bombards, culverins, mortars, chambered demi-cannons, and even the dreaded “basilisks.” Despite the seemingly antiquated military technology and tactics employed by the infantry regiments serving both House Lyonheart in particular, and The Kingdom of Albion in general. The peasant levies of billmen and longbowmen indigenous to The Kingdom of Albion more often than not rival, if not occasionally outperform the more modern, professional, pike-and-shotte infantry regiments employed by both the continental powers of The Civilized World and the reigning, dynastic houses that rule them. Most notably those employed by “Maison Williamson du Royaume d’Aquitaine,” as well as “Die Sudkreuzritterstaaten,” or “The Teutogen” or “Southern Austere” cultural and linguistic bloc of hereditary, dynastic states such as “Hohenrotbart Des Königreich Middenland” and “Hohenbiermann Der Markgrafschaft Brannenborg.”

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all i do is sit and think about you (if i knew what you’d do, collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes) it’s not living if its not with you

(i know this isnt a love song but let me have this)

[dailytudors]

TUDOR WEEK 2024

It is baaaaack by popular demand!. We are hosting Tudor Week 2024. This is going to be hosted from Monday the 14th of October to Sunday the 20th of October.

The week will go as follows:

Day 1 - Monday, 14th of October:  Your Favourite Tudor (members of the family that were born Tudors). Day 2 - Tuesday, 15th of October: Favourite Tudor contemporary quote about or said by the Tudor family. Day 3 - Wednesday, 16th of October: Best Tudor What If? Day 4 - Thursday, 17th of October: Fancast Your Favourite Tudor Family Member. Day 5 - Friday, 18th of October: Favourite Tudor Iconography (e.g. Tudor Rose, Anne Boleyn's falcon, Jane Seymour's Phoenix). Day 6 - Saturday, 19th of October: Favourite Tudor Couple (could include unmarried couples, e.g., Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley). Day 7 - Sunday, 20th of October: Favourite Tudor-related location.

This can cover all events and media that a Tudor family member is present, so from Owen Tudor to Elizabeth Tudor, and may include spouses and acknowledged children of direct members of the Tudor family (if unsure who we cover please check our Family page). We have attempted to make it as broad as possible and no pressure if you are late with some of the days, we will still reblog.

Previous Years: 2021, 2022, 2023

Be sure to tag your posts TudorWeek2024 and DailyTudors, looking forward to seeing your posts!

The Team at DailyTudors

[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.

[neon--nightmare]

@transgenderswagcompetition I DONT NORMALLY CARE ABT POLLS BUT #ISAACSWEEP !!!!! TRANS PRIDE SINCE 2011 BABY!!!

[emryyyyyss09]

me, everyday, feeling like i should make myself get a hyper-fixation on one of those really popular fandoms, or on a really popular ship so that there is a heap of media to consume and im not just reading and watching the same things over and over: yes, this is smart.

me at 3 a.m, going back to a really small fandom with only 600 fics on ao3: fuck.

[baudouinette]

The Shadow (1909) but make it Baldwin (and Lluna)

work in progress

I’m afraid my artworks aren’t gonna be quite as good as they could, because my iPad can’t seem to handle the level of detail in my art as I improve. The amount of lag between each stroke (and undo/redo) is crazy and Procreate keeps crashing. It also can’t handle the number of layers. I mean, it is also bc the storage is near full, but it’s only 64gb and I have too many projects. I have to see if I can storage them in a pendrive or smth. So pls excuse if I take a time saving approach; this will be more like a repaint with not many changes, just the basic to adjust it to Baldwin and Lluna, rather than a more loosely inspired rendition. That’s what I wanted to do, and I tried but couldn’t. It’s seriously painful to paint with such lag. I could take a video of it and share my pain with you 🥲

the original painting is by Edmund Blair Leighton. It’s in public domain so I don’t feel as bad for blatantly copying it 🥺 not like I could ever achieve that mastery lol <3 this is just for fun

[queenofthekings]

AITA for trying to resurrect the White Witch to save my kingdom and impress the girl I like?

I (15M) just found out my uncle killed my father and I want to seek revenge, but I've exhausted all traditional methods and decided to try deep magic under the guidance of my friend Nikabrik (?M).

The ritual was going well, I almost gave my blood over to the White Witch until the girl I like's older brother (14M) pushed me out the way before trying to do the ritual himself by giving his own blood. Her younger brother (11M) broke the ice containing the White Witch and ended the whole thing.

At this moment, my crush (13F) walked in to see me in front of the shattered ice wall. She gave me a look of disappointment before walking out of the room, and now she's giving me the silent treatment?

So Reddit AITA for trying to save my kingdom and to impress the girl I like?

[une-sanz-pluis]

At the highest social levels, there were the kings eldest sons (Henry and Thomas) who served with small retinues although they were only twelve and eleven years old, respectively. Although the princes were clearly too young to exercise effective command over large bodies of soldiers, there could not have been a better way of emphasising to both the English and their Scottish enemy the stability, and indeed virility, of the new regime than the king leading out an army alongside his two eldest sons, in succession to the childless Richard II. The symbolic value of such a formation would not have been lost on the king, but nor would the need to bolster the princes' divisions with men of high status and greater military experience, or at least greater age. In the groupings of Curson's particulars, Thomas of Lancaster is placed with the earl of Rutland, Walter, Lord Fitzwalter, and Richard, Lord Grey of Codnor. Meanwhile, Prince Henrys group contained units led by Edmund, earl of Stafford and William, Lord Ferrers of Groby, plus the 244 men-at- arms mustered by the treasurer and controller of the royal household, Thomas Tutbury and Robert Litton

Anne Curry, Adrian R. Bell, Andy King and David Simpkin, "New Regime, New Army? Henry IV's Scottish Expedition of 1400", The English Historical Review, Vol. 125, No. 517 (2010)

[sufferingink]

IM SORRY?????? ASLAN PUT A BUNCH OF BABIES IN CHARGE OF A KINDGOM?????

GET BACK HERE FURRY JESUS AND TELL ME HOW YOU JUSTIFY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD TO BE QUEEN

Edmund lives the rest of his life defining himself on a mistake he made when he was a BABY

THEYRE NOT EVEN PRETEENS YET???!!!

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

What’s your opinion on Pompeii then

tbh, i dont feel necessarily qualified to discuss the ethics around pompeii.

as i stated in the post, ocean liners and shipwrecks are one of my special interests so i know quite a lot about that kind of thing. ive watched a lot of interviews with survivors of wrecks or family members of those who died. this includes victims of titanic where family members have said they doont watch folks going down there to gawk at the wreck. there are also several shipwrecks that cannot be treated as tourist hotspots either because of respect for the dead or to avoid things like plundering or vandalism, like the fitz or the greek trading ship in the black sea.

because of all that, i feel that i know enough about the topic to speak on it and i will defer to what the survivors and the families of victims say.

im not that well-versed on pompeii beyond what most people know. ive never come across any discussion about it as a tourist spot or as part of "dark tourism', so my opinion is that my opinion on that matter is worthless.

if anyone who does know more about it, id love to hear what you think about it as a tourist spot.

[tiabwwtws-art]

FE Aspec Week Day One: Friendship | Friend Group

Starting off this event with my favorite quartet :] Hilda's the only allo one AND she's a gossip so she inherently becomes the team's Romance Understander, for better or for worse

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‘cause you get me

when i’m with you, i’m the best me

[dailytudors]

Tudor Week 2023

To celebrate our belated three-year anniversary we are hosting Tudor Week 2023. This is going to be hosted from Monday the 31st of July to Sunday the 6th of August.

The week will go as follows:

Day 1 - Monday, 31st of July : Favourite Tudor Rivalry Day 2 - Tuesday, 1st of August : Favourite Female Tudor Family Member Day 3 - Wednesday, 2nd of August : Best Tudor Myth Day 4 - Thursday, 3rd of August : Favourite Male Tudor Family Member Day 5 - Friday, 4th of August : Most Used Tudor Related Resource Day 6 - Saturday, 5th of August : Favourite portrayal of a Tudor Family Member Day 7 - Sunday, 6th of August : Favourite Tudor Mentor and Mentee relationship (can be a Tudor familial relationship, or a Tudor and a courtier relationship)

This can cover all events and media that a Tudor family member is present, so from Owen Tudor to Elizabeth Tudor, and may include spouses and acknowledged children of direct members of the Tudor family (if unsure who we cover please check our Family page). We have attempted to make it as broad as possible and no pressure if you are late with some of the days, we will still reblog.

Previous Years: 2021, 2022

Be sure to tag your posts TudorWeek2023 and DailyTudors, looking forward to seeing your posts!

- The Team at DailyTudors

[blueberry-bubbles130]

Alright everyone here’s a very stupid question!

Also yes. I have personally read fanfiction about every single one of these figures listed in the poll.

[fideidefenswhore]

The new queen's white falcon was on prominent display throughout the pageant, resting on a bed of Tudor roses. Although it is now synonymous with Anne and the Boleyns in general, Henry had only granted it to her on her elevation to the marquessate of Pembroke. It was a fitting choice because the same bird had long been an emblem of Anne's Irish ancestors, the Butlers, earls of Ormond. It also had strong royal associations and had been used as an emblem by the celebrated warrior king Edward III, as well as by Henry's maternal grandfather, Edward IV, with whom he strongly identified.

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I (2023), Tracy Borman