#alexander ales

[fideidefenswhore]

Most modern historians believe that Anne Boleyn was the victim of a plot – but, most importantly, what did Elizabeth come to believe? Alexander Ales would later attest to ‘the false accusations laid to the charge of that most holy Queen, your most pious mother’, and he was probably not the only one who shared such opinions with Elizabeth.

Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown, Nicola Tallis

[cinemaocd]

How Cromwell used one of Call-me's shared confidences to seize the opportunity to take down Anne Boleyn...

This is paraphrased from Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography of Cromwell:

"A 1559 letter of remarkable circumstantial detail to Anne's daughter, the newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth by that self re-named wanderer Alexander Alesius contains an eye witness account for the tangled events of the spring of 1536 that has not been taken seriously enough. His esteem for Anne was based on her reputation, he never met her....He was first the guest of Cranmer and then Cromwell, later a lecturer at Cambridge, well placed to observe and understand events at court. His message emphatically was that from the beginning Cromwell engineered Queen Anne's downfall. Alesius blamed the Papist malice of Bishop Gardiner as the spark for the story that Queen Anne had been accused of adultery. Gardiner had claimed that French court was inundated with rumors of Anne's infidelity to the King. Gardiner had written this from his mission in France to his old servant, Thomas Wriosthley who Alesius records had been placed at court to look after the Bishop's interest while he was away. Wriosthley passed the news to Cromwell. Alesius expressed much admiration for Cromwell in later years and saw him as a protestant hero. Yet he was able to see him as the collaborator of 'Willie Winchester' in these events, particularly when recounting them to the Protestant Queen Elizabeth. It also corroborates Chapuys claim that Cromwell told him he was responsible for her downfall.

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Both men [Cromwell and Gardiner] were instictively in favor of alliance with the Empire...this resisted the tendency of the [Boleyns and Norfolk to stay close to the French]....Cromwell's correspondence with Gardiner in this period goes out of the way to mend fences with gestures of friendship and confidential gossip and he even sang Gardiner's praises to Chapuys commending his skepticism about French diplomatic overtures to Henry. Chapuys noted his [Cromwell's] extraordinary vehemence on the French manuevers 'in a passion, so much that he could hardly get his words out.'

Alesius tells us the Wriosthley told them about the rumors circulating in France. [Gardiner then ceases to figure in his narrative, except that Wriosthley spent the latter half of the 1530s regretting this betrayal of Gardiner's confidence.] The King reacted in a fury. He needed agents to turn the rumors into a case... So according to Alesius, Henry put Cromwell and Wriosthley secretly to work, together with some unnamed accomplices, well known to dislike the Queen, because she had sharply reproved them and threatened to denounce them to the king for serving their own interests under a pretense of evangelical religion, making everything available for sale and being bribed into making unworthy ecclesiastical appointments for enemies of the gospel. This very specific set of charges sounds unmistakably like a critique of the vicegerential bureaucracy, particularly the visitation commissioners. It also agrees with accounts of clashes between Cromwell and Anne later in the Spring. "

-Diarmaid MacCuloch

[mf-rockstar]

NORMALIZE

SLUT SHAMING

ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

[pmkn2-0]

on the adventures of my favorite characters+ (plus Finn)

I love being an artist bc I can just do whatever

[24hrsoda]

Ra’s would have wanted Bruce to continue his studies to some extent while training him. he can’t have a Demon’s Heart that’s naive to so much of the world’s history, lest he be doomed to repeat it.

which then leads to multiple, highly intriguing, realizations that Ra’s was many of the great historical figures Bruce had heard about in school as a child

or, more horrifyingly, that Ra’s was the historically claimed “very good friend” of a lot of these figures

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Alexander Skarsgård, Max Irons, Florence Pugh, Bethany Muir – The Little Drummer Girl, Ep1 – Gadi Becker, Al, Charlie Ross, Sophie. BBC and AMC.

[I made a similar gifset back in 2018 and this past week or so it's been continually hitting my notifications and I've been squirming with embarrassment so hard. Now that my gif making is better, and the limit is now 10mb, I had to make them again. And yes, I added Max/Al stating the obvious! Apologies if you've recently reblogged my op from '18.]

[21stcenturyroyals]

INCORRECT ROYAL QUOTES | 21ST CENTURY ROYALS (2000-2099) | 6x23: “happily ever after”

[face0fspace1]

i think rqg is even worse than tma in the what is okay and whats not in order to be a family podcast. proof: episode 25 rqg.

1. sex joke

2. penis joke

3. penis joke

4. “extended and lengorous and vigorous intercourse”

5. sex joke

6. sex joke

7. “you cant watch”

8. “bellowing”

9. “i dont think youll be in a state to bellow the way i interview”

10. “do not come unexpectedly”

11. “because he had a really nice bum”

12. “im going to be charming wilde with a combination of intimate knowledge nobility or possibly ride“

13. someone cleaning up with a hose.

14. “some pictures of trains going into tunnels”

please. just swear.

[enbycrip]

Letting kids see a different, discursive take on history is really cool and really important.

It’s why I think there is still a genuinely radical element to Hamilton despite all its issues with lionising the Founding Fathers - because it’s asking people to imagine a history where this was possible.

Not to mention, tbh, this is actually kind of an incredible nod to the debt that European Enlightenment-era science owed to the scientific tradition in Asia and the Middle East, which Eurocentric history has been ignoring for centuries.

If a British kid sees this and digs into Newton’s life, they might well be disappointed to find out that he was actually white, but hopefully they’ll then find out about Ibn al-Haytham (known in Europe as Alhazen) and see the enormous debt Newton’s work owes to his.

[thornescratch]

Al Koken: You've had to face number eight as an opposing goaltender, how much fun is it to watch him do it someone else?

Logan Thompson: (laughs) I love that guy. I'm so happy to be his teammate. And you know, he deserves everything he's getting right now and I'm happy for the performance he put on tonight. Just, just love being around him.

Al Koken: We'll let you go join him.

Logan Thompson: Thank you.

Further Ovechkin-Thompson bromance details.

[skunkes]

AL IS ALFONSO? NOT ALEXANDER.. ?? my life is a lie

Al is Alphonse! though funnily enough even though ive denied any relation to weird al in the past (since i love weird al and ppl always ask if i named him after him) i have been wondering if he should be an Alfred instead.... but historically he has been Al(phonse) yes...he doesn't like it, only ever goes by al

[simandy]

[𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐞 𝐔𝐩 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐛.𝐦𝐩𝟑]

CHAOS ANGEL at EDGEWAVE, organized by @aniraklova

Thank you so much for the opportunity to develop these guys, I'm in love with your event and I've had a lot of fun so far ^^

[that-one-annoying-fan-girl]

Pjo episode 3 spoilers:

I am just watching the show completely enjoying it and totally invested and in the world when all of a sudden this mother fucker shows up

[doctor-octiddius]

let me show off some goofy file names once again

[world-of-wales]

Foreign Royals and other Guests pose for a group photograph at the State Banquet held in honour of the Royal Wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Crown Princess Rajwa in Jordan | 2 JUNE 2023

[doctorfriend79]

RAF Pilots