#Edward III

[bookholichany]

David Tennant in Shakespeare plays

[As you like it, Measure for measure, love's labor lost, Richard II, Hamlet, The Comedy of errors, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, much Ado about nothing, Macbeth]

P.s. he had also been in Edward III as Edward the black prince and the midsummer night's dream as Lysander/flute but I couldn't find any pictures from those plays. Also he had taken part in many audio performances from Archangel archive full Shakespeare plays collection to BBC radio Macbeth 2022.

[gwydpolls]

Shakespeare Genre Battle: Histories

I'm doing all of them. Don't worry if yours isn't in this poll.

I am including some things with disputed authorship, collaborations, and apocrypha just because.

[taliesin-the-bored]

Wait a minute...

Edward the Third was an Arthuriana nerd who named his son after Sir Lionel, and...

...made up a title for him, which....

...had previously existed in Arthuriana and didn't refer to a place. Coincidence?

Probably.

Well, darn. That would've been very interesting. Then again, maybe the knowledge that Edward III was such a nerd he named his son after Sir Lionel is enough to ask.

[tercessketchfield]

ROYALTY MEME | Granddaughters of Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (part two) / (part one)

through their sons: John of Gaunt, Edmund of Langley, and Thomas of Woodstock

[wonder-worker]

"Fundamental to Alice's ability to increase her perceived influence in this fashion was her position at court. Continuing the pattern that had emerged towards the end of the 1360s during Philippa’s illness, after the death of his wife Edward III became even more politically inactive as his own health declined and he sought greater privacy with a restricted group of trusted companions at his favoured residences of Sheen, Eltham and Havering, leaving the majority of the royal household at Windsor. This created a royal court that was very much separate from the royal household. At the same time there was a marked decline in the number of members of the aristocracy amongst the king’s companions and, with the exception of the earl of Arundel, all the lords of Edward’s generation had either died or stopped attending council meetings by 1373. Of the king’s surviving sons, the Black Prince virtually retired from public life after returning from Aquitaine in 1371 debilitated by illness, Thomas of Woodstock was still too young to take an active role in government, and John of Gaunt and Edmund of Langley attended court when they could, but they, together with the young earls of March, Suffolk, Warwick, Oxford and Stafford, were too busy on the continent following the resumption of the war with France in 1369 to have any consistent presence at court.

It was under these circumstances that a small group of royal favourites, collectively identified as the court covyne or clique, came to dominate the person, policy and patronage of Edward III during the final years of his life. At the heart of this intimate circle was Alice. The other leading members were the chamberlain, William Lord Latimer; the steward, John Lord Neville of Raby; the chamber knight Richard Stury; and the financier, Richard Lyons. They were followed by a broader circle of household members and London merchants, who included: Helming Leget, receiver of the chamber; Sir John Ipres, controller of the king’s household; Nicholas Carew, keeper of the privy seal; Sir Robert Ashton, treasurer from 1375; Sir Alan Buxhull, chamber knight and constable of the Tower of London; Philip la Vache; John Pyel; Adam Francis; John Peeche; and Adam Bury. The supremacy this group maintained over the king was self-perpetuating; just as Edward, in his desire for his mistress and to be surrounded by a small number of intimates, came to be dependent on Alice, Latimer and their associates, so the members of this close-knit group reinforced their disproportionate amount of influence by supporting each other’s position.

This is not to suggest that Alice was dependent on the court covyne for her position. On the contrary, it could be argued that the king’s infatuation with his mistress made her the personal linchpin without whom the rest of the group would have fallen apart. This put Alice in a position of enormous power, as she was able not only to cajole and flatter Edward into giving her gifts of land and jewels, but also to make great demands of those who sought favour with the king and who came to her in the knowledge that, where Edward III was concerned, Alice could achieve whatever she desired. The queen’s death, her position at court, and her consequent visibility: these are the three reasons for Alice’s extraordinary rise to power after 1369 and her dramatic fall from grace in 1376, when she and her fellow courtiers came under attack from the Commons in the Good Parliament."

— Laura Tompkins, The Uncrowned Queen: Alice Perrers, Edward III and Political Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, 1360-1377 (PHD Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013)

[illustratus]

[une-sanz-pluis]

Was Henry [V] really a man of ‘deeply held religious convictions’? Well yes, in that he couldn’t afford not to be; and yes, in that any aristocrat of this time was likely to hold such views; and yes, in that his particular brand of spirituality was different from, say, his father’s, because he lived at a different time. Henry V founded a pair of trendily ascetic religious houses – the Brigittine at Syon, the Carthusians at Sheen – but were his actions so different from those of Edward III, founder of colleges at Windsor and Westminster and a Carthusian house adjoining the Tower of London? Or Henry VI, founder of colleges at Eton and Cambridge? Or Edward IV, founder of a house of Observant Franciscans at Greenwich, and sponsor of colleges at Oxford, Cambridge and Windsor? Henry V ran a tight ship, but he had learned this in the councils and parliaments of his father’s reign, and he had to be prudent if he wanted to raise the amount he needed to fight the war that he (and others) believed he was required to fight. He took a more prominent role in the leadership of the church, both locally and internationally, than was typical, but in an age of schisms and councils that was unavoidable; no other king did precisely what Henry did, but no other king ruled in precisely the same place and time, so no one else was subject to precisely the same range of pressures, coalitions and opportunities

John Watts, "He Who Must Bear All", London Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 5, 2017 (reviewing Malcolm Vale's Henry V: The Conscience of a King)

[Vale] gives Henry personal credit for developments which, from one perspective, were institutional, or from another perspective conventional – but contemporaries did that too: they wanted to believe in Henry V, just as we do.

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert dressed as the medieval monarchs Edward III and his consort Queen Philippa of Hainault in 1842 for the Queens costume ball. 🎨 Sir Edwin Landseer.

[liviasdrusillas]

"There is no doubt at all that Philippa of Hainault had deep maternal instincts and that she and Edward III created remarkably close relationships with their children. They had seven sons, of whom five survived to adulthood, and the king remained on close and affectionate terms with all of them throughout his life. Given the frequent pattern of hostility and rebellion on the part of royal sons towards their fathers throughout the Middle Ages, for Edward III to retain the love and loyalty of all his sons until he died was a real achievement that should not be underestimated and Philippa of Hainault was to a great extent responsible for the forging of affectionate ties between her husband and their children."

philippa of hainault: mother of the english nation, katheryn warner

[misslevel]

Shakespeare poll tag, for all the different genres!

[medievalandfantasymelee]

my propaganda for blake ritson is that every time i see him i'm struck dumb and am unable to move for several minutes because he is so beautiful

Edward III [Blake Ritson] VS. Ivanhoe [Anthony Andrews]

[bookholichany]

Edwin had an imaginary friend named Lucienne as a child. Because whenever he fell asleep he would dream of the biggest library ever. There was a sweet Raven named Jessamy who would always go and find Lucienne to keep Edwin company so he wouldn't get lost. He was the happiest in those dreams.

[ltalaynareor]

Liste de lecture sur les Plantagenêts.

Chose promise, chose due. Vous trouverez l'ensemble des docs historiques en français et en anglais portant sur la dynastie des Plantagenêts.

Pour information, des listes de romans en français, en anglais et des docs qui se concentrent sur les rois et les reines Plantagenêts devraient venir fin mai.

La liste est exhaustive.

Français :

Anglais :

[socialshakespeare]

Shakes-Tourney, Round 2

(Winter's Tale summary from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)

Edward III: A fallible king and his soon-to-be legendary son fight the French and insult the Scottish, not necessarily in that order.

The Winter's Tale: King Leontes becomes paranoid about his wife's fidelity; he imprisons her, kills their son, and banishes their infant daughter; years later, a statue comes to life.

[tercessketchfield]

ROYALTY MEME | Granddaughters of Edward III & Philippa of Hainault (part one)

through their children: Lionel of Antwerp, John of Gaunt, and Isabella of England

[wonder-worker]

"In the early 1360s Edward III took as his mistress Alice Perrers, the daughter of a London goldsmith and widow of one of the King’s jewellers, Janyn Perrers. Alice’s opponents would later viciously exaggerate her low birth—Thomas Walsingham claimed that her father was a thatcher—so it has only been in this century that her true identity was revealed by Mark Ormrod and Laura Tompkins. Alice became one of Philippa’s demoiselles, but supplemented her income from Philippa with a role as a moneylender to merchants and gentry. During Philippa’s lifetime she began investing her wealth in property that, Tompkins has estimated, would eventually approach £2000 per annum in value—an income that exceeded that of some earls.

Alice bore the King a son, John Southeray, in about 1365 and from 1367 she received a number of royal grants. Her name is notably absent from the list of Philippa’s ladies who received bequests in the Queen’s will. Philippa died in 1369 and, unlike other widowed kings of the later Middle Ages, Edward III seems to have made no attempt to look for a replacement queen. Alice then emerged as a public figure, richly rewarded by the King, and sought out by courtiers for her influence over him. In 1373 Edward gave her a collection of the queen’s jewels and the following year the Pope himself included her among those he petitioned to influence Edward III to engineer his brother’s freedom from captivity. Alice subsequently stole the show at a royal tournament at Smithfeld when she dressed as “the Lady of the Sun.” Her choice of outft was probably a deliberate spin on Edward III’s own sunburst emblem.

Alice was indubitably a skilled businesswoman with an impressive grasp of property law, but she was also abusing her closeness to the King in order to build up her wealth. Moreover, contemporaries identifed her as the heart of a disruptive and malign court clique. Tompkins has argued that Alice’s powerful and self-serving influence over the King was perceived as “inverting queenship.” During the Good Parliament of 1376, Alice was condemned for the use of maintenance, accused of taking thousands of pounds from the Exchequer, and ordered to stay away from the court, under threat of banishment.

Thomas Walsingham reported that at this time her accomplice in seducing the King was also arrested, a Dominican friar who was an “evil magician” and had used wax effgies of the King and Alice to enable her to “get whatever she wanted from the King.” There is no corroborating evidence for this story of arrest, but the idea that low status women could only attract the admiration of kings or nobles through witchcraft was a pervasive one, especially apparent in Elizabeth Woodville’s story [...], and probably also in that of a later quasi-queen, Eleanor Cobham [...].

Just months after the Good Parliament, the King had pardoned Alice, but he died the following year. At some point in the 1370s she had taken a second husband, Sir William Windsor, who spent most of his career in Ireland. In the autumn of 1377, Alice was accused of having persuaded Edward III to countermand an order to investigate charges against Windsor the previous year and to pardon one of her business associates. Alice was sentenced to banishment and forfeiture of all goods and lands. Although this banishment was revoked in 1379, her subsequent attempts to regain her possessions were consistently frustrated. She died in the winter of 1401–1402, bequeathing her “usurped” lands to her two daughters by the King. Their son had predeceased her.

Unlike the later quasi-queens, Alice’s position came from sharing a king’s bed and was thus closer to that of an actual consort. By contrast, her low social status and ineligibility to produce an heir to the throne made her less like a queen consort than her successors. She was thus better physically positioned to exert influence but ideologically wholly separated from any authority to do so."

J.L Laynesmith and Elena Woodacre, "The Later Medieval English Consorts: Power, Infuence, Dynasty", Later Plantagenets and Wars of the Roses Consorts