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fideidefenswhore · 11 months ago

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The rumor about returned gifts, since two informants separately revealed it to him, sounds like an invented event to assure Chapuys of Jane's honor and to neutralize the earlier rumor about Henry's presenting her with gifts. Considering the Seymours' social status and political ambitions, surely they would not have permitted their female relative to refuse presents from the King.

Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship, Retha Warnicke

#retha warnicke #mmm...i don't know about this lol #like i do not quite ... follow #'bcus he had two different sources that makes it less likely to be true' does.... it?#i tend to rate chapuys' reports that include the phrase 'i have it by several quarters' or even 'have it by several reliable quarters'#higher than the others bcus that's actually a detail he pretty rarely gives #also what is unfortunately ignored is his dispatches which includes a source he admits he's been told is unreliable (one was henry percy)#but tl; dr like it's possible? idk it was always wild to me that if they're both true #anne and jane both said the 'for a thousand deaths' exact phrase but in different contexts #my love would not abate one jot vs my honor which for __ i would not wound #henrician #also princess mary says something else #'rather die a hundred times than change her opinion or do anything against her honor or conscience'#*records...similar #just a rhetoric used then . among privileged women. maybe. idk lol #when making A Point .

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