#blanche of portugal

[ruipalha]

Une ruelle... by Rui Palha Via Flickr: www.ruipalha.com Maybe some of you will be interested in the next Leica Workshop in Lisbon www.ruipalha.com leicastoremiami.com/collections/workshops-classes-and-tri...

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[une-sanz-pluis]

Lucraft has even suggested that Constance and Katherine had a positive relationship. Constance would have crossed paths with Katherine socially: Richard II issued Garter robes to both women between 1388-90. In 1390, at least, both were in the country and may have been present. An entry in the Register from April 1373 may also be informative. It orders Robert atte More, receiver at Tutbury, to repair and supply Tutbury castle for the arrival of Constance ‘and of our very dear children and others of our meinie’. This indicates that Constance was bringing her daughter Catherine and probably Gaunt’s other daughters Philippa and Elizabeth, as well as household servants. Another entry in the Register notes that Katherine, Philippa and Elizabeth’s governess, was in Lincolnshire at the time (it was probably late in her first pregnancy by Gaunt), but she potentially re-joined her charges at Tutbury later. Although it is impossible to know, the possibility paints an intriguing picture of Constance and Katherine’s relationship. In 1381 the ducal stables provided for mounts for Constance, Philippa of Lancaster, Blanche Morieux (John’s illegitimate daughter by Marie de Sainte Hilaire, one of his mother’s ladies-in-waiting, prior to his first marriage), and Katherine Swynford simultaneously, suggesting that the entire extended family were spending time together. The sorts of extended family gatherings this evidence suggests may not seem terribly comfortable from a twenty-first-century perspective, but were probably more common in the Middle Ages.

Rebecca Holdorph, ‘My Well-Beloved Companion’: Men, Women, Marriage and Power in the Earldom and Duchy of Lancaster, 1265-1399, University of Southampton, PhD Thesis

[the-paintrist]

Eugenie Servieres - Maleck-Adhel attendant Mathilde au tombeau de Josselin de Montmorency - 1820

oil on canvas,

Brest’s Museum of Fine Arts, France

Maleck-Adhel waiting for Mathilde at the tomb of Josselin de Montmorency'. The scene is inspired by Sophie Cottin's novel, Mathilde or Memoirs from the History of the Crusades (1805). Mathilde of England asked her brother, King Richard the Lionheart, for the key to the mausoleum of Josselin de Montmorency to meet her lover, Maleck-Adhel, brother of Saladin. Here we see Maleck-Adhel, dressed in oriental fashion, waiting for Mathilde in the dark mausoleum, leaning on the tomb.

Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières, née Charen (1786 – 20 March 1855) was a French painter in the Troubadour style. She specialized in genre period paintings.

Portrait of Eugénie Servières by Jean-Baptiste Wicar 1810

In 1807 she married the playwright Joseph Servières. She trained with her stepfather, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Director of the French Academy in Rome.

Beginning in 1808, she exhibited her paintings, on a wide variety of subjects, in several venues. In 1808 and 1817, The Paris Salon awarded her medals. In 1825, she displayed two works at the Salon in Lille.

Her paintings include Hagar in the Desert, Lancelot and Genevieve, Louis XIII and Mlle. de Lafayette, Alain Chartier and Marguerite d'Écosse, Valentine de Milan, Desdemona Singing the Romance of the Willow, and Blanche de Castille Delivering the Prisoners of Châtenay.

Her Mathilde converts Malek-Adhel to Christianity (1812, from a novel about the Crusades by Sophie Cottin) was purchased by the Empress Marie Louise for her personal collection, while the evocative Inez de Castro and her Children at the feet of the King of Portugal is preserved at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, near Paris.

Most of her works were personally commissioned, and very few are in museums. She had several students.

[docpiplup]

The Bastard Kings and their families

This is series of posts are complementary to this historical parallels post from the JON SNOW FORTNIGHT EVENT, and it's purpouse to discover the lives of medieval bastard kings, and the following posts are meant to collect portraits of those kings and their close relatives.

In many cases it's difficult to find contemporary art of their period, so some of the portrayals are subsequent.

1) John I of Portugal (1357 – 1433), son of Peter I of Portugal and Teresa Lourenço; with his wife, Philippa of Lancaster (1360 – 1415), daughter of John of Gaunt and his wife Blanche of Lancaster

2) His father, Peter I of Portugal (1320 – 1367), son of Afonso IV of Portugal and his wife Beatrice of Castile

3) His sister, Beatrice of Portugal (c. 1354–1381), daugther of Peter I of Portugal and his wife Inês de Castro

4) His brother, John of Portugal (1352 – c. 1396), son of Peter I of Portugal and his wife Inês de Castro

5) His brother, Ferdinand I of Portugal (1345 – 1383), son of Peter I of Portugal and his wife Constanza Manuel de Villena

6) His sister in law, Leonor Teles de Meneses (c. 1350 – c. 1405), daughter of Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses and his wife Aldonça Eanes de Vasconcelos

7) His niece, Beatrice of Portugal (1373 –c. 1420), daughter of Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife Leonor Teles de Meneses

8) His niece, Isabella of Portugal (1364–1395), daughter of Ferdinand I of Portugal and an unknown woman

9) His daughter with Philippa of Lancaster, Isabella of Portugal (1397 – 1471)

10) Left:

I. Eleanor of Aragon (1402 – 1445), daughter of Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Leonor de Albuquerque; and wife of Edward I of Portugal

II. Isabella of Coimbra (1432 – 1455), daughter of Peter of Portugal and Isabella of Urgell; wife of Afonso V of Portugal

III. Edward I of Portugal (1391 – 1438), son of John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster

IV. John II of Portugal (1455 – 1495), son of Afonso V of Portugal and his wife Isabella of Coimbra

V. Afonso V of Portugal 15 (1432 – 1481), son of Edward I of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon

Right:

I. Ferdinand of Portugal (1402 – 1443), son of John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster

II. John of Portugal (January 1400 – 1442) son of John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster

III. Peter of Portugal (1392 – 1449), son of John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster

IV. Henry of Portugal (1394 – 1460), son of John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster

Note: In the last picture, the Panel of the Prince or the Infante and the Panel of the Knights from Nuno Gonçalves' St. Vincent Panels, the identity of some of the members of the Royal family it's still discussed, like the man identified as Edward I in the Panel of the Prince is his brother Henry, but we're considering the interpretation of the people of the panel being Afonso V with his parents, wife and heir, and the ones of the Panel of the Knights are Edward I's brothers, although by the time the panels were painted most of them have already died.

[ethereal---spirits]

June 4th, 1994, MALICE MIZER played at Shinjuku LOFT on the Higeki no Bansan Vol. 3 tour. Songs included Shi no Butou, Miwaku no Rooma, Baroque, SADNESS, seraph, Portugal, E-GE Umi ni Sasagu ~The Vault of Heaven. Other bands that night were BLANCHE and Vice†risk.

[letourdumondedesdufraigne]

VIVA PORTUGAL!

C'est parti !!!

Longue est la route pour rejoindre notre destination : Carvoeiro en Algarve.

Plusieurs itinéraires s'offrent à nous, nous choisissons celui qui passe par le pays Basque. Cela tombe bien, nous adorons cette région et plus particulièrement Saint Jean de Luz.

Partis depuis poltron minet, nous prenons possession de notre chambre à Ascain, en milieu d'après-midi. Nous profitons de l'accalmie météo pour rejoindre Saint Jean de Luz où nous organisons un pique nique apéritif face à la baie et au magnifique coucher du soleil.

En rentrant à l'hôtel, nous croisons ce panneau improbable qui nous fait immédiatement penser à notre fils!

Nous passons la frontière à 6h30 en direction de Caceres, en Espagne, notre seconde étape.

Après l'autoroute très sinueuse du pays Basque espagnol, se succ��dent de très longues plaines agricoles bien grillées. Déconcentrés par ces paysages désertiques, nous en avons oublié de regarder notre niveau d'essence...dommage!, car après une première partie de route constellée de station service tous les 10 km, celles-ci se font beaucoup plus rares! Fidèles à notre réputation, nous sommes cependant sauvés par l'ami "Repsol" (=Total espagnol).

Nous arrivons à Caceres en milieu d'après-midi sous une pluie battante. Tant pis pour la piscine! L'hôtel Extramadura, chiné sur Booking, est un peu comme la ville, d'une architecture rétro des années 70. Armés d'un parapluie, nous partons à la conquête de la partie ancienne de la ville. Après un pique-nique dans notre chambre, nous y retournons le soir : objectif, déguster une sangria! Les monuments anciens sont très joliment mis en valeur par un éclairage. La musique d'un bar branché nous invite à passer le pas de porte. La sangria "maison" est plutôt bien chargée en alcool blanc, Gin?!

Le copieux petit déjeuner nous permet également de prévoir notre pique-nique du midi.

A 10h55, (9h55 locales), nous passons la frontière portugaise, où des cigognes, nichées sur des pilônes, nous accueillent. Les plaines désertiques font place à des champs vallonnés et verdoyants de chênes liège.

Nous faisons une halte à Evora, qui mérite mieux que le court moment que nous lui avons consacré. Capitale de l'Alenjero, c'est une belle petite ville qui comporte entre autre de nombreux vestiges de l'antiquité.

Nous arrivons enfin à Carvoeiro ! Nous donnons rendez-vous à Jean-Michel, notre contact français local. Notre petite maison sur 3 étages, est située dans un quartier résidentiel dans la partie haute de la ville. C'est une maison mitoyenne avec de petites cheminées qui nous a immédiatement fait penser aux "Trullis" vus dans les Pouilles, en Italie.

Ici, toutes les maisons sont blanches, avec des jardins exotiques. Nous pouvons aussi profiter d'une piscine partagée.

Comme il faut remplir le réfrigérateur, nous prenons la destination des 3 mousquetaires. Eh oui, la France est là aussi ! En sortant du supermarché, il fait nuit, le GPS ne connait pas notre rue et le téléphone affiche aucune connexion internet… Nous mettons un certain temps avant de retrouver, enfin!, (grâce à Olivier) , notre maison dans ce labyrinthe !

Le lendemain, nous avons rendez-vous avec Jean-Michel, qui avait proposé une marche jusqu'à sa (très grande) villa, pour un apéritif destiné à nous présenter la région proche et les usages portugais locaux.

Voici la plage de Carvoeiro.

Les jours suivants, nous visitons les environs et nous constatons que la circulation en voiture est souvent compliquée, parce que les indications de lieux sont aléatoires.

Visite de Portimao, située à quelques kilomètres de Carvoeiro.

Plage de Praia da Rocha

Nous y avons déniché un tout premier restaurant, petit et fréquenté par les locaux, des plats typiques et pas chers.

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Nous randonnons à Alvor, petit port à 15 km de Carvoeiro. Très belle randonnée sur la plage, longue de plusieurs kilomètres et aménagée de chemins de bois qui permettent la marche à marée haute dans la lagune, sur l'arrière.

[canmom]

L'Aventure de Canmom à Annecy - Vendredi 1: Short Films 5

Olá from Portugal! I am recovered from travelling, and it's time to finish my Annecy writeups...

Friday I ended up waking up pretty late, all those late screenings catching up with me. I spent a while writing up Thursday in my hotel before realising that my computer clock was still on UK time. This meant I missed another chance to fruitlessly queue for Mars Express, I missed the new film Toldi by Marcel Jankovics, and I even missed Graduation Films 1 which contained the eventual winner of the category. So, rip. 仕方がない。。。

I got into Annecy just in time to catch the next block of short films. I elected to go to block 5 at Pathé because afterwards I could scoot into Bonlieu for Tunnel to Summer. More on that in a bit lol. Let's cover short films 5!

We begin with La saison pourpre by Clémence Bouchereau from France. This one was really neat. It's traditional animation in pencil, depicting a group of people, mostly children, who live naked in the roots of a mangrove. It made great use of partial drawings, just enough to recognise you're looking a character's arm or legs or cunt or whatever, depicting the tense interactions as the nameless characters hunt, play, and find themselves threatened by a storm. The sound design is also really strong. I feel like the nudity works for this film, although I could understand having qualms. The characters' eyes are just dots, and their expressions opaque, but the context and the way the interactions are framed expresses plenty of tension and emotion. I can only guess what motivated this film, but it ended up being really absorbing.

Ce qui bouge est vivant by Noémie Marsily from Belgium was kinda eh to me. A woman's voiceover narrates an existential crisis as we get a series of disconnected images, most of which I struggle to remember now (don't do your writeups four days later lol).

D'une peinture... à l'autre was better than I expected. By this point I saw quite a few films that used a rough oil-painting like effect and a lot of them don't use it very well, but here the paintings - which depict a camera flying around through a painted world establishing (I assume) a context for the two paintings it's about, was solid.

I don't know that I really picked up on the implied contrast between the two paintings, which both depict a reclining naked white woman and a Black woman in two different poses, but I looked them up while writing this post. The first is Olympia by Édouard Manet. Here, the white woman is looking directly at the 'camera' position, and the Black woman is clearly framed as a servant; apparently this painting caused controversy at its time, partly for many symbols that suggest the white woman is a sex worker, partly because she is recognisably a well-known model at the time. The second painting is Le Blanche et la Noire by Félix Vallotton, a response to Olympia; here the Black woman is chilling on the bedside smoking a cigarette instead of trying to present flowers, regarding the sleeping woman on the bed - apparently to suggest the two women are lovers, since this pose would usually be assigned to a man. The animation in the second half progresses in a different direction (right to left rather than left to right) and reframes the scenes from the first half.

I was not familiar with either of these paintings so all I could really do in the moment was appreciate the animation. But tbh I'm kind of glad they didn't put a context card up front because that would make it feel painfully didactic. I wouldn't mind seeing this film again with more of an idea what it's getting at.

Carne de Dios directed by Patricio Plaza, animated in Mexico and Argentina, was one of the strongest entries in this set. It depicts a priest during the colonial period; at the outset he encounters an indigenous girl running through the field with some mushrooms, which he knocks out of her hand and crushes. But, he falls ill, and finds himself in a church, where an older indigenous healer is preparing to treat him with the same mushrooms. From this point on the film goes full psychedelia; the priest dreams of the statue of Jesus on the cross turns into a giant, who devours him. Inside the guts he finds himself sucking on kaiju!Jesus's nipples and getting fisted by a giant kaiju finger (don't ask why kaiju!Jesus is inside his own stomach). It's strongly presented with traditional animation so if you enjoy ridiculous psychosexual imagery it's a fun one.

The next morning, the priest wakes up after his bad(?) mushroom trip terrified to find the healer seemingly dead; he flees from the area.

The imagery of the priest's dream is interesting, for poking at the weird sort of sex obsession-revulsion in Christianity; it's also better for the film that the priest didn't really Learn A Valuable Lesson or anything. The animation was extremely cool, and I'm definitely immensely curious to see what this team does next.

Love Me True by Inés Sedan from France depicts a woman who gets into online dating, and becomes infatuated with a man who mostly wants to take her to group sex and has very little use for her otherwise. She has a bad time; eventually she turns to other men who treat her as poorly. It's another one that uses rough paint textures and relatively limited animation, set to a voiceover narration. I think I'm coming to feel that voiceovers are a technique that is tricky to use effectively. If they're redundant with the animation, the animation should be allowed to speak for itself.

27 by Flóra Anna Buda depicts... I think it's a daydream? But essentially a girl in a cramped family situation (her brother catches her masturbating and teases her about it cosntantly) standing at the window and then going out to have a lot of sex. It's got a highly abstracted style where everyone is big old shapes. By this point I was definitely starting to think of short films 5 as the porn block lmao.

Tongue by Yoshida Kaho flashes by in just two minutes. With a very stylised approach to drawing that's basically what they call "corporate memphis", it shows a woman who bites out tiresome mens' tongues and stores them in a box. For feminism, you know. I think it could have stood to be hornier with it, like make the tongue biting really juicy. But that would weaken the metaphor lol.

The final film was Eeva directed by Morten Tšinakov and Lucija Mrzljak from Estonia and Croatia. I needed to scoot out of the theatre early to make sure I could get into Tunnel to Summer, so I didn't see this film. I think it actually got an award so that might have been a mistake if it was really good! The description of it is...

It's pouring down with rain at the funeral. There's a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.

...so make your own guesses as to what kind of film it was.

So, solid collection with a couple of really strong ones. From this point on the day was all anime...

[realcatalina]

Royal women who died in childbirth in 15/16th century

There are misconceptions that Tudor were somehow unnaturaly cursed, more plagued by fertility issues and deaths in childbirths than the other dynasties.

Plenty of past royal miscarriages and stillbirths were not even recorded. But had they existed they could have contain similiarly grim acount.  But we can at least look at records of royal women who died in childbirth in 15th and 16th century:

During, or soon after childbirth/miscarriage:

Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1430

Catherine of Castille, Duchess of Villena in 1439

Catherine of Poděbrady, Queen of Hungary in 1464

Anne of Savoy(Crown Princess of Naples) in 1480

Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal in 1498

Elizabeth of York, Queen of England in 1503

Anne of Foix-Candale, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary in 1506

Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal in 1517  

Jane Seymour, Queen of England in 1537

Isabella of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress in 1539

Maria Manuela of Portugal, Princess Asturias in 1545

Catherine Parr, Dowager Queen of England in 1548

Isabella of Valois, Queen of Spain in 1568

Claude of Valois, French Princess in 1575

Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland in 1598

Weeks/Months after(never recovered fully):

Catherine of Valois, Dowager Queen of England in 1437

Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence in 1476

Barbara Zápolya, Queen of Poland in 1515

Aditionally deaths of royal women:

Blanche of England died of fever in 1409, she was pregnant at the time

Mary of Burgundy died in 1482, weeks after she fell from horse and broke her back. She was pregnant at the time.

Claude of France, Queen of France  might have died from childbirth or miscarriage in 1524, although different causes are also speculated by historians-mainly illness and poison.

Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden died in 1535. She was pregnant and fell badly while dancing. The fall confined her to bed and lead to complications and eventually her death.

Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany had fell from stairs in 1578 eight months pregnant. She then had premature labour where baby was in difficult position and both of them died.

Deaths due to cancer of reproductive organs:

Barbara Radziwiłł, Queen of Poland died in 1551. The cause was widely speculated at the time, but modern historians think it could have been cervical or ovarian cancer.

Mary I of England died in 1558 fallowing phantom pregnancy. Historians think it could have been ovarian or uterine cancer.

(Some might disagree with Catherine of Valois dying of childbirth. But imo, if you think her giving birth and her death detoriating not long after is not at least contributing factor, then you’re insane.)

It’s a lot of women. Those were the days. Men fought on battlefields and women had battlefield of their own. The most heartbreaking for me are the cases where mother died in childbirth and the child didn’t live or died young. 

I have probably missed some women. I mostly fallowed just main royal line. Queens, spouses of crown princes and blood princesses. But there should have also been wives of the rest of the princes, i just looked at few.

Also in some cases, the cause of death was not recorded, nor was there any theory about possible pregnancy pushed foward by historians. We can rule out those royal women who died pass their childbearing years. But younger ones we can only speculate about. Although in 16th century if the royal woman died of illness or generally poor health, usually it is mentioned. In 15th-usually nothing. 

So we will never get 100% accuracy, but i try.  

It’s certainly interesting to me reading that Queen of Sweden died after falling badly during dancing. I thought that period superstition(which lingers to today) that one should not dance is total bull. But aparently they had some dances which could cause pregnant lady harm. Idk, maybe some of those jumpy ones could cause woman to trip and fall very easily?

I will probably update this in future. Write to me if I made mistake in anything or if you know of any more royal women who died either in childbirth or after or while pregnant in 15/16th century. Or if you know anything more about death of Claude of France.

[titou-nz]

Johannesbourg - South Africa

Éducation

De renommée internationale, l'université du Witwatersrand (ou Wits), implantée à Johannesbourg depuis 1904, est un pôle d'enseignement supérieur offrant des formations médicales, scientifiques et artistiques ; il attire des étudiants à l'échelle régionale et nationale. Les enseignements sont dispensés en anglais.

L'université de Johannesbourg a, quant à elle, été créée en 2005, résultat de la réunion des campus de Soweto et East Rand de la Vista University à ceux de la Rand Afrikaans University, et de la fusion de cette dernière avec le Tecknikon Witwatersrand. Les enseignements sont dispensés en anglais et en afrikaans à titre égal, résultat d'un long combat sous l'apartheid qui visait à livrer un enseignement en anglais au détriment de l'afrikaans, langue exclusivement blanche et métisse de tradition.

Johannesbourg est une des rares villes à posséder un centre d'étude épigraphiques, dont les travaux reposent sur l'étude de gravures sud-africaines. Elle prend part aux compétitions dites épigraphiques qui rassemblent les différentes écoles du même genre.

L'éducation primaire et secondaires est organisée en douze années et se finalise par l'obtention d'un certificat de validation d'acquis, similaire au baccalauréat français. L'année scolaire va de février à novembre, et les grandes vacances couvrent décembre-janvier, période estivale. La priorité de l'enseignement sud-africain est l'apprentissage simultané des langues, des sciences ainsi que le sport. Le port de l'uniforme est obligatoire. La scolarité est payante et non mixte.

Johannesbourg comprend aussi un large réseau de lycées et d'écoles internationales soutenus par différents pays dont la France, l'Allemagne, le Portugal, les États-Unis, l'Australie, l'Israël et la Libye.

Lieux de culte

Parmi les lieux de culte, il y a principalement des églises et des temples chrétiens : Église chrétienne de Sion, Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Assemblées de Dieu, Union baptiste d'Afrique australe (Alliance baptiste mondiale), Methodist Church of Southern Africa (Conseil méthodiste mondial), Cathédrale anglicane Sainte-Marie de l'Anglican Church of Southern Africa (Communion anglicane), Église presbytérienne d'Afrique (Communion mondiale d'Églises réformées), Archidiocèse de Johannesburg (Église catholique). Il y a aussi des mosquées musulmanes et des temples hindous.

Équipements sportifs

Le stade de rugby à XV Ellis Park Stadium se trouve à Johannesbourg. La finale de la Coupe du monde s'y est tenue en 1995 avec la victoire des Springboks sur les All Blacks. Le président Nelson Mandela, première personne noire à ce poste en Afrique du Sud, a ainsi remis le trophée au capitaine sud-africain Francois Pienaar. Nelson Mandela était d'ailleurs revêtu d'un maillot de l'équipe nationale pour l'occasion avec le numéro 6 du capitaine.

Le stade Soccer City a notamment accueilli la finale de la Coupe du monde de football 2010, le dimanche 11 juillet. Il peut accueillir près de 95 000 spectateurs.

Un tournoi de tennis professionnel, de type 250 Series, a lieu tous les ans.

[duncantraveldiary]

Iconiques: les trottoirs de Copacabana aux mosaïques noires et blanches en forme de vagues ont été refait dans les années 70. Ces vagues étalent à l origine perpendiculaires a la mer et avait été imaginées au XIX siècle et les matériaux (basalte et calcaire) importés du Portugal.

[lonesomemao]

DANS LA MAISON D'AMOUR

Macron balance

A Netanyahou

Israël création par l'ONU

Non dit le second

La guerre il fallut

Que nous fassions

Mépris pour l'ONU

En tant qu'institution

Où un vieux Portugal commercial

Traité de Lisbonne

Site Atlantico

Essaie de sauver un catholicisme

Européen qui recherche toujours

La domination mondiale

Pères Blancs qui remplacent

Les tenants de la Russie Blanche

Ordinateur ,Dieu a une barbe blanche

Triangle des Bermudes

Mer des Sargasses

L'Europe s'ouvre et explore l'océan

Un ciel n'est plus bleu méchant

Dimanche 20 octobre 2024

[une-sanz-pluis]

Do you think that Blanche's son Rupprecht "the English" or his descandants would have been considered as possible heirs to the English throne, if he had lived longer.

Besides Henry VI Rupprecht was the only legimate grandson of Henry IV. Or would his foreign birth prevented it.

So, a few things: this is highly speculative since Ruprecht (or Rupert) the English died over twenty years before the last of his maternal uncles and 45 years before Henry VI himself. It also meant that he, not his half-brother, would have become Elector Palatine following their father's death. I also don't know anywhere near enough about Ruprecht's own political context (or, rather, the political context of his father and brothers) to comment.

It does seem likely that he would have been discounted as a viable heir due to his foreign birth. The descendents of both Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal and Catalina of Lancaster, Queen of Castile don't seem to have been viewed as viable heirs to the English throne or duchy of Lancaster after the death of Henry VI, even through - allowing for inheritance to pass through the female line - it could be argued they had a more technically more viable claim than Henry VII.* It's possible that the Wars of the Roses would have made Ruprecht's claim more attractive but I think he would have struggled to be accepted as king due to his foreign birth and upbringing, especially given that rampant xenophobic rhetoric used against Margaret of Anjou and Edward of Lancaster's forces by the Yorkists was likely to be turned on him.

Another question is whether Ruprecht himself would have been interested in ruling England. Had he lived, he would have become Elector Palatine following his father's death and he might have been too busy with that to really care about England. He may have also been willing to present himself as an alternate heir for political and/or financial gain. I don't know nearly enough about the politics of this time in the Palatinate of the Rhine to comment on this, however.

* Philippa was the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt and his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, while Catalina was a daughter of Gaunt and his second wife, Constanza of Castile. Henry VII was descended from John Beaufort, son of Gaunt and his third wife, Katherine Swynford, though John was born out of wedlock and only legitimised in 1397. Whether the Beauforts had a claim to the throne has been debated. Henry's claim was also derived from the female line, through his mother, Margaret Beaufort. However, Henry had been raised in England and Wales before he was forced into exile and, with his mother remaining in England, had strong connections in England and Wales.

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Royal Deaths, 12th September.

1015 - Lambert I, Count of Leuven.

1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor.

1213 - Pedro II, King of Aragon.

1368 - Blanche of Lancaster, mother of King Henry IV of England.

1500 - Albert III, Duke of Saxony.

1604 - Louis Gunther, Count of Nassau.

1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia.

1683 - Afonso VI, King of Portugal.

1691 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony.

1917 - Tsaritsa Eleonora of Bulgaria, second wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.

1938 - Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and grandson of Queen Victoria.

[docpiplup]

The Bastard Kings and their families

This is series of posts are complementary to this historical parallels post from the JON SNOW FORTNIGHT EVENT, and it's purpouse to discover the lives of medieval bastard kings, and the following posts are meant to collect portraits of those kings and their close relatives.

In many cases it's difficult to find contemporary art of their period, so some of the portrayals are subsequent.

1) Ferdinand I of Naples ( 1424 – 1494), son of Alfonso V of Aragon and Giraldona Carlino

2) Alfonso V of Aragon (1396 – 1458), son of Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Leonor de Albuquerque

3) Isabella of Taranto or Clermont (c. 1424 – 1465), daughter of Tristan of Clermont and Catherine of Taranto

4) Alfonso II of Naples ( 1448 – 1495), son of Ferdinand I of Naples and his wife Isabella of Taranto

5) Eleanor of Naples (1450 – 1493) & Beatrice of Naples (1457 – 1508), daughters of Ferdinand I of Naples and his wife Isabella of Taranto

6) Frederick I of Naples (1452 – 1504), son of Ferdinand I of Naples and his wife Isabella of Taranto

7) Ferdinand of Aragon and Guardato (before 1494–1542), son of Ferdinand I of Naples and Diana Guardato

8) Eleanor of Aragon (1402 – 1445), daughter of Ferdinand I of Aragon and Leonor de Albuquerque

9) I. John II of Aragon & Navarre (1398- 1479), son of Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Leonor de Albuquerque

II. Blanche I of Navarre (1385​-1441), daughter of Charles III of Navarre and his wife Eleanor of Castile

III. Blanche II of Navarre (1424 – 1464), daughter of John II of Aragon and his wife Blanche I of Navarre

IV. Eleanor I of Navarre (1426 - 1479), daughter of John II of Aragon and his wife Blanche I of Navarre

V. Charles of Viana/ Charles IV of Navarre (1421- 1461), son of John II of Aragon and his wife Blanche I of Navarre

VI. Ferdinand II of Aragon & V of Castile (1452-1516), son of John II of Aragon and his wife Juana Enríquez

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I. Mary of Aragon ( 1403- 1445), daughter of Ferdinand I of Aragon and his wife Leonor de Albuquerque

II. John II of Castile (1405- 1454), son of Henry III of Castile and his wife Catherine of Lancaster

III. Henry IV of Castile (1425-1474), son of John II of Castile and his wife Mary of Aragon

IV. Isabella of Portugal (1428 - 1496), daughter of John of Portugal and Isabella of Barcelos

V. Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504), daughter of John II of Castile and his wife Isabella of Portugal

VI. Alfonso of Castile (1453​-1468), son of John II of Castile and his wife Isabella of Portugal