#The Plantagenets

[angevinyaoiz]

My Medieval 12th century inspired art book zine "If All The World Were Mine!" Is now available to order! Thanks everyone who signed up to my notification list, and bought it at the show! I had a great time sharing it with everyone hehe.

I have a tier for just the zine itself, as well as for a full-package deal with prints (Sacral Anointment and Blood of the Vassals!) and Melusine + Bestiary stickers.

The zine is 52 pages, in full color, and has a collection of my favorite pieces from the past couple years, including some of my nsfw arts. There are a couple of new illustrations I haven’t yet shared publicly, so can’t wait for everyone to see them!

Get it while it's hot, here on my storenvy while my stock lasts :D

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[world-of-wales]

⋆ William, The Conqueror to William, The Prince of Wales ⋆

⤜ The Prince of Wales is William I's 24th Great-Grandson via his paternal grandmother's line.

William I of England

Henry I of England

Empress Matilda

Henry II of England

John of England

Henry III of England

Edward I of England

Edward II of England

Edward III of England

Lionel of Antwerp, Ist Duke of Clarence

Philippa Plantagenet, Vth Countess of Ulster

Roger Mortimer, IVth Earl of March

Anne Mortimer

Richard Plantagenet, IIIrd Duke of York

Edward IV of England

Elizabeth of York

Margaret Tudor

James V of Scotland

Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland

James I of England

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Sophia, Electress of Hanover

George I of Great Britain

George II of Great Britain

Frederick, Prince of Wales

George III of the United Kingdom

Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

George V of the United Kingdom

George VI of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Charles III of the United Kingdom

William, The Prince of Wales

[devilsburger]

Devil’s Burger Family (and a couple of outsiders)

[horizon-verizon]

The Plantagenets, Beginning to End

[henryfitzempress]

“Marriages amongst the elite in the fourteenth century were rarely love matches. Politics, territory and wealth determined the course of matrimony for young noblemen and women. The marriage between Gaunt and Blanche was another link in the political union between two powerful houses—Plantagenet and Lancaster.

As Gaunt and Blanche were distant cousins, their marriage required a Papal dispensation, as interfamilial marriage was in breach of Canon law. In the New Year of 1359, at the Papal court at Avignon, Pope Innocent VI was duly presented with a request from the King of England: that he 'enable his son John, the Earl of Richmond and the Lady Blanche, daughter of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, to intermarry, they being related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred’.

The Pope sanctioned the marriage and, soon after the dispensation reached England, the date for the wedding was set for May.

The ceremony would be held at Reading Abbey, one of the largest royal monasteries in Europe. The abbey was founded by the youngest son of William the Conqueror, Henry I, who invested heavily in it, supporting learning as well as prayer by funding an extensive library.

Support of the abbey remained in royal consciousness following Henrys death, for Empress Matilda - his daughter - donated a sacred relic: the hand of Saint James of Santiago. Over the next three centuries Reading Abbey grew to become a popular place of worship and burial for the elite, as well as a suitable location for Parliament to convene outside of London.

In May 1359, members of the nobility gathered to witness the marriage of John of Gaunt to Blanche of Lancaster. It was a union of cousins as well as great allies, heavy with the promise of peace between historic rivals, Lancaster and the Crown. The union made sense.

Blanche's elder sister, Maude, was married to William III, Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault, and the match between John and Blanche would strengthen domestic relations.

On a personal level, it was also a nod to the friendship between Edward and Henry, and the loyalty the Duke had shown throughout the highs and lows of the war in France.

Seventeen-year-old Blanche was an attractive choice of bride for the nineteen-year-old John of Gaunt. She was beautiful, pious, young and, shared with her sister Maude, she stood to inherit her father's enormous fortune, which through marriage would be controlled by Gaunt.

As medieval tradition dictated, when a woman married a man, she relinquished to him her chattels - land, property and money.

In the presence of a priest and of three or four respectable persons summoned for the purpose, John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster exchanged rings and were married in the eyes of God and witnesses, overseen by the clerk of the Queen's chapel.

Blanche was showered with generous gifts: sliver buckles from the king and two rings of ruby, and pearl and diamond from John of Gaunt.

The wedding was an elaborate celebration and the subsequent banquet was particularly extravagant: guests were served richly spiced food and wine on tables covered in linen, silk and cloth of gold, and minstrels played for the durations the feasting.

The celebrations continued for days, with jousts held locally to mark the occasion. The wedding party then cheerfully made its way to London, where preparations were underway for an ever larger and more spectacular event.”

Castor, H. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, The Duke of Lancaster. 2021.

Fancast: Holliday Grainger as young Lady Blanche of Lancaster & Ben Barnes as young John of Gaunt.

[liminalmemories21]

TV Hot Takes

Hot Take #1

Nobody ever needs to remake an Agatha Christie novel again. It was the Golden Age of detective novels, pick a new author. Personally I’m asking for a remake of the Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey Dorothy L Sayers novels, because Lord Peter Wimsey is hands down my favorite fictional crush and Harriet Vane is awesome.

Hot Take #2

Nobody ever needs to make another tv series or movie about the Tudors - not Henry, or his wives, or Mary or Elizabeth or the other (Scottish/French) Mary. There are other dysfunctional royal families all over Europe.

There’s Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine right there in England a couple of hundred years earlier. She was the most beautiful (and richest) woman in Europe! She came from the original court of Courtly Love! She was married to the King of France and ran away with the younger man (Henry)! And then became the Queen of England when Henry inherited after the Stephen & Matilda mess. They had really hot sex (I mean, I don’t know that for sure, but probably). They had a really messy family. Also Henry II is my favorite English king (Alfred runs a close second) - he restored peace and order to England after decades of civil war (also Thomas a Beckett was kind of a tool - not saying he deserved to be murdered, but kind of a tool). It would be such a good Starz series.

You could do John of Gaunt and Kathryn Swynford who was his mistress for decades and then he married her in the end and legitimized all their kids who went on to found the Tudor dynasty, if you were really hung up on the Tudors.

Okay, I’m done now.

[violetcancerian]

TUBI HAS BECKETT I'M--

[maypoleman1]

22nd December

The Anarchy

The Empress Matilda in battle. Source: Museum of Oxford website

On this day in 1135, King Stephen ascended the English throne. This was in effect a usurpation, because the eldest child of the deceased King Henry I was the “Empress” Matilda who was unacceptable as a monarch to the Norman English court due to her gender, preferring Henry’s nephew, Stephen, to the thought of a Queen ruling the realm. Matilda did not accept the misogyny and launched a military campaign against her cousin’s accession, unleashing a period of bitter civil war on the country that became known as “The Anarchy”. Matilda attracted the support of many who believed in dynastic propriety but was opposed by nobles for whom a female monarch ruling in her own right was unacceptable. The fact of the civil conflict enabled elements of the new Norman nobility (England had been conquered by the Normans just seventy years before) to rampage around the country, plundering peasantry and churchmen alike. It was said that during the 19 years of war that this was a time that crops refused to grow and that Christ and his angels slept. Matilda did at one stage defeat and capture Stephen, but her attempts to be crowned Queen were frustrated by the London mob and she eventually was beaten in battle in turn and fled to the continent. England would not see a Queen on the throne until the reign of Mary I, four hundred years later.

Perhaps Matilda had the last laugh. After Stephen’s death, she succeeded in manoeuvring her son onto the throne who reigned as the first Plantagenet, the formidable Henry II. Stephen however, the last of the “Norman kings” has gone down in history as one of the worst monarchs in English history.

[writinginobscurity]

Obscure #NonfictionReviews “The Plantagenets”

“The Plantagenets″ by @dgjones (Part Three)

Parting thoughts:

To me, it feels like some of us have vacillated back to the idea of admiration for “the strong man” of government. Without getting too far in the “well, both sides do it” navel-gazing, because I find when someone wants to tell me about how the left is just as bad as the right, they’re about to reveal that they don’t actually have any real ideas of their own on how to fix things. Yes, both sides of what is widely accepted as the political spectrum have engaged in propping up a “strong man” as head of the government and supreme authority in various places all over the Earth.

Now, that aside, a King is really the ultimate conservative ideal. A man—appointed by God himself—is bestowed magically through birth inheritance with all the skills and wisdom he will ever need to rule his lessers via divine providence. He may be a flawed instrument, but no matter what, no matter how many lies he speaks or how provably wrong he is shown to be, he has to be correct—because God sent him.

There are many, many reasons why I don’t like that prospect. Mainly though, it’s because it’s the same fucking story countless tyrants have told us about why they are in charge and why we, the peasantry, should be just THRILLED to send our sons and daughters to die in some distant land.

I agree with the founding fathers of the United States on this topic. No one should be King. In that name or any other. No one is special from birth. Though that last bit has been a point of lively debate over the years, so much so that we fought a bloody civil war over it.

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[lucreziagiovane]

GEORGE PLANTAGENET + hair flip

[angevinyaoiz]

Hic leo noster (This our lion)

1172 / 1189

[queen-boleyn]

#ILOVEBEINGYOURBROTHER MAX IRONS and DAVID OAKES as King Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence The White Queen|The Storm

[english-history-trip]

The signatures* of the monarchs of England/UK from 1066

*When there was no signature, I used their name as it appeared on a charter or letter from them.

The royal consorts

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design, c. 1481.

[horizon-verizon]

Not a single person who calls the Targaryens colonizers (or imperialists) knows what the fuck that word means. Aegon’s Conquest didn’t turn Westeros into a Valyrian colony/outpost like Mantarys, Tolos or Essaria. It’s just a family, a foreign one, like the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, the Targaryens ruled a land they have no real cultural or ethnic claim to, nor relation with. The Plantagenets, the longest running dynasty in English history, originated from the lands of Anjou in France. Wars of conquests already happened before within Westeros like Arlan III’s conquest of the Riverlands.

Yep. I have written about how the Targs aren't colonizers many times. This is just one post where others wrote against Targ-being-colonizers.

Plantagenets, yep.

Arlan III, I had to search up. Here is the ASoIaF official wiki description of how Arlan conquered the riverlands pre-Aegon I:

Arlan married one of the daughters of Lord Roderick Blackwood, wedding her beneath Raventree Hall's great weirwood. When Roderick rebelled against King Humfrey I Teague, Arlan supported Roderick and intended to restore the riverlands to the Blackwoods. Arlan's stormlanders crushed the Teagues in the Battle of Six Kings, but Roderick was slain in battle. Roderick's heir was a boy of only eight and Arlan distrusted Roderick's brothers. He suggested crowning Roderik's eldest child, Shiera Blackwood, who was wed to his own son, but the riverlords rejected this suggestion. Arlan then decided to add the riverlands to the realm of the Storm Kings. Arlan was able to plant the banner of the Durrandons on the shores of the Sunset Sea. Arlan's successors were not able to hold his gains, however.

I find it interesting that this is another case of Westerosi men rejecting a possible female leader in lieu of another, but less practical, options and ending up conquered. Hmmm. Almost as if GRRm is creating a pattern here concerning social discrimination towards women.....who would have thought....

[galatariel]

George will not be King. Parliament would not agree. Your father has risked everything, and he has lost. EDWARD IV & GEORGE PLANTAGENET THE WHITE QUEEN — 1x03: The Storm (2013)