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tmarshconnors · 5 months ago

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"The court is rife with intrigue and betrayal, with everyone seeking to secure their own position and avoid the King's wrath." (Letter to Charles V, 1537)

Eustace Chapuys, the son of Louis and Guigonne Dupuys, was a Savoyard diplomat who served Charles V as Imperial ambassador to England from 1529 until 1545 and is best known for his extensive and detailed correspondence.

Born: 1489, Annecy, Annecy, France Died: 21 January 1556 (age 67 years), Leuven, Belgium

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travellerthroughtime · 6 months ago

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Hans Holbein, Holbein at the Tudor Court, Queen's Gallery, London, 2024

#hans holbein the younger #Queen's Gallery #buckingham palace #london #painting #tudor court #thomas more #jane seymour #anne boleyn #edward vi #elizabeth i

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alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry · 9 months ago

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They flee from me sometime that did me seek by Thomas Wyatt

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bottegapowerpoint · 11 months ago

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Hans Eworth, Portrait of Mary Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk

#hans eworth #powerpoint #flemish #artwork #tudor court #paintings of aristorcracy

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apollolovescheesecak · 9 months ago

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The Venetian Lovers by Paris Bordone repainted with the lovely (ineffable) ladies of the court, tudor designs courtesy of @dingledraw!!

i haven’t been able to stop thinking about the tudor wives since i read the comics of featuring their character designs, hope i did it justice!

#art by me #fanart #painting #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #fem aziraphale #fem crowley #ineffable wives #tudor #tudor fashion #The Venetian Lovers #ineffable ladies of the court #this was so much fun to do honestly #michael sheen #david tennant

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autumncottageattic · 5 months ago

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Barrington Court

#Barrington Court #country living #country life #country aesthetic #summer aesthetic #country summer #english manor #english countryside #english garden #Tudor manor house #Somerset #england

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mywingsareonwheels · 6 months ago

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How to tell if you are in Henry VIII's court:-

There is...

Henry VIII (back away slowly)

his wife, who deserves better (statistically it'll be Katherine of Aragon, but whichever one it is, she deserves better)

one or more hyper-competent arseholes called Thomas (who also frankly deserve better than what happens to them, but they are still arseholes, and they are all called Thomas)

depending on the year, there may also be the Duke of Norfolk in the middle of totally selling out one of his nieces

and finally Spanish ambassador Eustace Chapuys, being extremely snarky in all of his letters

On the upside, depending on the year there may be some absolutely banging music, but is it worth it? No.

#english history #henry viii #if it's before flodden you're probably better off at james iv's court instead #six wives #six wives of henry viii #tudor history #history shitposting

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enyoalkis · 4 months ago

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I think about sometimes how 2000s Scarlett Johansson would've been better cast as Catherine Howard in a different Tudor drama than Mary Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl if you believe the Portrait of a Young Woman, by Hans Holbein the Younger, is Catherine.

#i think the 4th pic is Scarlett from the 90s tho?#but i really do believe that Holbein portrait is Catherine because the lady looks to be closer to in age to when she entered court #the other famous portrait alleged to be her looks a bit more like Anne of Cleves in the English court style #my vision would be to portray Catherine not as a dumb silly girl but a young survivor trying her best to be a good queen #but since Scarlett is too old to play as her now irl i think still fancasting her as Catherine for fics would be great #catherine howard #katherine howard #six wives of henry viii #tudor england #the other boleyn girl #house of tudor #tudor history #mary boleyn #tudor era #tudor dynasty #enyo chat

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fideidefenswhore · 6 months ago

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the downfall and execution of a tudor queen (2023) / the boleyns: a scandalous family (2021) / the king's pearl: henry viii and his daughter mary (2017), melita thomas / anne boleyn (tv miniseries 2021) / the mirror and the light (2024) / elizabeth (1998)

#web weaving #sort of?#i never feel like my edits really fit #they're more like collages #anyway...me on my island with the one other tudor fan that liked AB 2021 lol #'our expectations were low but holy fuck' sounds like a lot of consternation about a pretty...solid script?#what i loved most about it was moments like the above #the ability to summarize really complex dynamics borne of circumstance #in such a way that you can believe in the world and it serves as its own 'previously on' that a miniseries inherently lacks #esp when it only covers five crucial months #tl; dr there's a lot of smugness evident in many books of this genre #when it comes to anne's attitude towards her stepdaughter #bcus she was quote proven wrong unquote; becaues mary got quote the last laugh unquote...#when really. as per the quotes i've been posting #it doesn't seem like mary's reconciliation with her father was the idyll many have made it #thus we have anne's letter #and offer. knowing that others are offering her better futures #but saying this is the best future you could have. limited time only.#and it seems the future proved her right; not wrong (at least the immediate future)#bcs while matters; had she accepted; might not've been substantially better than they were under the auspices of a 'more gentle' stepmother #it also doesn't really seem like they would have been substantially worse #anne was right that her enemy's supporters wanted her disgraced and/or dead. she was right in that they wanted elizabeth disgraced #and/or dead. she couldn't have predicted what happened to herself in the exact matter it did- mainly bcus it was unprecedented #but it seems she had a pretty clear view of what mary was doing: playing both sides. attempting to ingratiate herself to her father while #also conspiring against him. and she knew it would have been better to have her on side #(and in a more jaundiced view: have her where she could watch what she was doing; who she was seeing)#but perhaps underestimated how impossible it would be to get her there in the first place #('on side' ; that is. not at court. although probably not that either. with the conditions she demanded)#but her fears of mary were not paranoia. they seem to have been grounded in realism #and a clear view of the situation at home and abroad

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fuckyeahstufficareabout · 15 days ago

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Hampton Court was cool to see

#hampton court palace #the tudors #henry viii #anne boleyn #thomas cromwell

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austin-friars · 4 days ago

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It just occurred to me that we've not had an in depth portrayal of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour since the Tudors. Or just, Jane Seymour in general. So I am really curious to see how Mirror and the Light/Wolf Hall is going to handle them.

We get to know about her family, we'll learn about Elizabeth Seymour as well, and how important she is.

#and maybe we have I just haven't seen #most of the portrayals of jane are very much her being viewed as the 'other woman'#which isn't at all fair #she is never truly given her own type of spotlight #at least until like i said #the tudors #and there is either over pacification of her or over villainization of her #and by pacification - i mean people just portray her as a mindless doe like character #who has no type of motives or goals of her own #when it was her who worked tirelessly to introduce mary back to court #and it was her who was sympathetic to the catholics and the pilgrimage of grace #anywayzzzz #can't wait to see how wolf hall handles her #and if this is going to be a type of portrayal that is everlasting - like the tudors #jane seymour #wolf hall #henry viii #mirror and the light #i do know that most of the focus in the new series is going to be Thomas Cromwell - whom I am obsessed with to the point of #I think it's best not to talk abt him or y'all would look at me weirdly #but what I'm saying is i'm not going to expect *too* much #because the tudors was really focusing on the queens and not the courtiers #and mirror and the light's main focus is certainly the courtiers

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unabashedqueenfury · 3 months ago

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Reign 2013-17

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

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elephantlovemedleys · 1 year ago

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so i was at hampton court today (my first time visiting) and boy was it humongous! seeing henry’s kitchen, apartment halls, and the chapel was amazing plus i certainly just had a whole vibe that i was indeed inside a palace from centuries back, the galleries were gorgeous aswell and the gardens were such a sight to see! it’s definitely a must visit (most especially if you are super immersed in tudor history like i am)

#tudor visits #maria rambles #personal #hampton court palace #henry viii #anne boleyn #katherine howard #catherine parr #tudor era #english history

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harrietvane · 2 months ago

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Hampton Court Palace - September 2024

#had a day out lads #sat under a quince tree saw some old buildings #architecture #landscape #hampton court palace #user sunrayravine and i were barred from the east front due to ‘posh car show’ but saw lots of other good things #and spoke to some gentlemen in fancy pants in the kitchens about tudor saffron

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rosalinesurvived · 11 months ago

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Tfw you’re married to an dangerous unstable butcher and made queen to this guy and everyone at your court waits for you to die too and you have nightmares about this man killing you as he killed his wives so you hide your religion and placate and love him and keep yourself a secret as best as you can and do everything right but you’re still in torment with these dreams and their judgement and they give you his dead wives’ jewels and clothes and castles so you have to wear the gowns of a murdered child whom you can’t even admit was innocent because her name was dragged through the mud so much and just as you think you’ve achieved his love and reunited his family he paints his dead wife in your clothes on the royal portrait and she is in your clothes as if you are the ghost, alongside all the others who came after her and this was the woman he abandoned in childbed, and all of this happens to you smack bang in the middle of public so you can’t even rage or grieve smhhh

#look objectively i know that phillipa gregory can barely be called a historical writer but DAMN #catherine parr #kateryn parr #she was holding shit together in that court #tudor era #jane seymour #katherine howard #catherine howard #henry viii #the taming of the queen #phillipa gregory #I WOULD’NT reccommend this book btw! you don’t need to read it!#its a barebrush detailing of kateryn parr but the ending is so wildly inane and i HAAATE thomas seymour and how they portrayed elizabeth #house of tudor

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edwardseymour · 6 months ago

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new jane seymour fanfic just dropped!

where are the history books that call her a ‘sweet, docile angel’? name them.

#i’ll wait :)#we literally know nothing about this woman so we simply cannot claim with any certainty #what her feelings or motivations were. we simply don’t know.#‘jane was not a nice lady AT ALL’ well.. were any of them?#likewise why is she assumed to be inauthentic/manipulative when we simply don’t know?#while anne’s supposed ‘independence’ is unquestionably accepted as wholly genuine.#maybe jane was manipulative but there’s no evidence either way #seems weird to single her out as not nice when we know the least about her.#this ‘well ACTUALLY—‘ attitude about jane feels so spiteful.#people seem SO bitter and resentful over jane’s supposed glowing reputation… that doesn’t exist.#historians/authors either don’t care about her or they talk about her with disdain #& that there is a slowly burgeoning group of fans is not really indicative of her general historiographical record.#by and large jane is the least popular wife. we all KNOW this. there is no need to pretend.#there is no need to be this reactionary and defensive.#(ALSO:#‘genuinely lovely people were a rarity in the tudor court—#—they all backstabbed each other for a taste of power’#i need you to understand that tudor people… were people.#not every single person was/is a cartoonishly evil power-hungry machiavellian schemer.#many lacked the ability and/or the inclination. almost all lacked the agency — especially many women.#for the majority the court world was merely a place and system of employment.)#💿🐴

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