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RUTA GEDMINTAS in Showtime's period dramas: as Elizabeth Blount in THE TUDORS (2007-2010) as Ursula Bonadeo in THE BORGIAS (2011-2013)

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Six The Musical as Tweets pt61

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✦RUTA GEDMINTAS in THE TUDORS ✦

Click on the source link to be redirected to #97 gifs (300 x 160px) of Ruta Gedmintas in The Tudors. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. Please, don’t forget to like or reblog if you plan on using!

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This white dress with embroidery on in the front has been worn twice in The Tudors, first worn on Ruta Gedmintas as Elizabeth Blount in Season 1 (2009) and later worn on Suzy Lawlor as Lady Anne Parr in Season 4 (2010)

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Fitzroy's investiture must have delighted his mother Bessie, whose husband Gilbert Tailboys attended the ceremony, but it also represented a significant blow to Queen Catherine. Fitzroy's quiet childhood may have enabled her to maintain a dignified denial about his existence, but this public event, and all that it entailed, made the boy a main figure at court from that point onwards, when he was given his own establishment at Durham House, her former home. A private letter written by the Venetian ambassador, described the event [...] [and had] noticed it had been the cause of some tension between [the King and Queen]: 'The Queen resents the earldom and dukedom conferred on the King's natural son and remains dissatisfied, at the instigation, it is said, of three of her Spanish ladies, her chief counsellors, so the King has dismissed them [from] the court, a strong measure, but the Queen was obliged to submit and have patience.'

The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII (Licence, Amy)

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“Much ado has been made about Henry VIII of England being the ultimate example of the serial monogamist. Some have even claimed that the King was unusually faithful for the era, keeping to his wives’ bed for the most part. You know, despite how he came into these marriages. Some of these books even make these assertions in the same paragraphs that host descriptions of his infidelities. It’s, quite obviously, ridiculous. Henry was just as sexually promiscuous as most other royal men of his day. He just felt shame about it…sometimes.”

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HENRY FITZROY

HENRY FITZROY, DUKE OF RICHMOND AND SOMERSET

c. 15 June 1519 �� 23 July 1536

SON OF KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND

            Henry Fitzroy was the son of Elizabeth Blount and Henry VIII. Blount was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon and mistress to the king.

            Fitzroy was born in 1519 and Henry VIII recognised him as his son, most likely to let it known that he was capable of having a son (he and Catherine only had a surviving daughter Mary).

            FitzRoy was made him Duke of Richmond in 1525 and later the Duke of Somerset, having two dukedoms was a great honour. Henry VIII, 34, was frustrated that he had no legitimate male heir. Catherine, 40 became resentful towards the honours given to FitzRoy.

            FitzRoy was raised as a prince in Yorkshire; Henry VIII was fond and was interested in his son’s upbringing. In 1529, he was made Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and there was a plan to crown him King of Ireland. In 1532, Henry VIII visited Calais to meet with Francis I of France and took FitzRoy with him. FitzRoy moved into the French court until 1533, when he returned to England. Henry VIII was in the process of having his marriage to Catherine annulled, there were plans for FitzRoy to marry his half-sister Mary.

            In 1533, FitzRoy, 14, married Mary Howard (cousin to Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn), the marriage wasn’t consummated.

            Henry VIII and Parliament were enacting the Second Succession Act, which would have allowed FitzRoy to become king.

            FitzRoy became ill and died at the age of 17 at St. James’s Palace. FitzRoy was placed into a straw-filled wagon, and the only two mourners followed it at a distance. He was first buried at Thetford Priory, where the members of the Howard family were buried. During the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the Howard family moved the family remains to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, where it remains today.  

            Henry VIII died in 1547 and his legitimate son Edward VI became king until his death in 1553. When Mary Howard died in 1557, she was buried alongside FitzRoy.

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#OTD in 1600 – O'Neill engages Mountjoy's forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass.

In September of 1600, the Irish forces of Hugh O’Neill, whom the English had made Earl of Tyrone, were in rebellion against the crown. Two years earlier O’Neill and his principle ally “Red” Hugh O’Donnell had routed an English army under Sir Henry Bagenal at Yellow Ford, expelling the English completely from the lands of O’Neill. Now Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was marching on Tyrone with…

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The Waiting Game

Tudor England is one of my great loves. It’s one of my favourite time periods to read about and engross myself in. Since I’ve been a fan for so long, the fact that historians are now pulling out the lesser known stories is something I find thrilling and I feel like there’s a whole new world out there for me to explore. Catherine of Aragon – and Anna of Kleve – had to learn English, Anne Boleyn…

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‘Penelope: Tudor Baroness’ by Tony Riches

Check out my latest review of 'Penelope: Tudor Baroness' by Tony Riches. Thanks to Tony and Preseli Press for a copy to review.

Thanks to Tony Riches and Preseli Press for a gifting me this for review. What I really like about Tony Riches’s novels are that they bring to life people that have been lost or sidelined. Penelope Rich (nee Devereux) is a woman who had an incredibly interesting life and was sister to the executed Earl of Essex as well as stepdaughter to the Earl of Leicester, let relatively little has been…

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Chloe Harris as ELIZABETH "BESSIE" BLOUNT

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Six The Musical as Tweets pt58

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✦RUTA GEDMINTAS in THE TUDORS ✦

Click on the source link to be redirected to #97 gifs (690 x 388px) of Ruta Gedmintas in The Tudors. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. Please, don’t forget to like or reblog if you plan on using!

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Katherine of Aragon & Gertrude Courtenay

Gertrude was daughter of William Blount, fourth Baron Mountjoy, a distinguished humanist scholar and chamberlain to Katherine of Aragon. As the daughter of such an esteemed gentleman at court,  Gertrude received an outstanding education and served Katherine of Aragon as one of her maids of honor. The Queen oversaw the education of her young charges, so Gertrude benefitted from the royal patronage. In 1519, she married to Henry VIII’s first cousin Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon. Gertrude was the wife and mother of the last Plantagenets at the Tudor court.

Gertrude was one of Queen Katherine of Aragon's attendants at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. If the Chateau Vert rings any bells it’s probably because it was the masque that saw Anne Boleyn, freshly returned from France, debuting at the Tudor court in March 1522. A little-known fact is that Gertrude Courtenay also took part in it, playing the role of Honour. In 1525, Gertrude’s star was on the rise once again when her husband was created the Marquess of Exeter, making Gertrude a Marchioness.

Gertrude was among the key political players of Henry VIII’s court during the infamous annulment, known as the Great Matter, commencing in 1527 and ending in 1536. The Marchioness of Exeter was among the high-profile ladies-in-waiting who staunchly supported Katherine of Aragon. Seeing how popular the Queen was among the women at court, Anne Boleyn used her influence and dismissed some of them, including Gertrude.

During the summer of 1531, Katherine of Aragon was banished from court. The Queen received gifts and letters from her trusted friends and former servants like Gertrude Courtenay in her exile.

Henry VIII had had enough of his wife’s resistance, and he married the pregnant Anne Boleyn in secret on 25 January 1533. On 31 May, Anne rode in a procession from the Tower of London to Westminster Hall—it was the most impressive part of the coronation festivities. The Marchioness of Exeter opened the cavalcade, a clear sign that she was a high-profile lady-in-waiting. Gertrude had no other choice but to follow the King’s orders and accompany the new Queen: a clear sign to Katherine’s followers that unconditional obedience was required. Gertrude’s husband managed to avoid appearing at Anne’s coronation. Whether the illness Henry Courtenay suffered in June was real or feigned cannot be discerned now, but Gertrude later “much lamented her husband’s sickness at the time of the Queen’s coronation, and said that though her person was there, her heart was at home with her husband”.

Gertrude’s prominent role during the christening of Anne Boleyn’s daughter was calculated as an insult to Katherine of Aragon. Henry VIII selected Gertrude as one of Princess Elizabeth’s godmothers. The disgusted Marchioness complained to her friends that “she really wanted to have nothing to do with this” but took part “so as not to displease the King”.

Like her father, Gertrude walked on eggshells trying not to displease the King, but ultimately it was impossible for her to accept Anne Boleyn as the new Queen. The Catholic Marchioness soon found herself in a position of open defiance of Henry VIII and his second wife. Gertrude gave ear to the Nun of Kent’s prophecies (for which the Nun was executed in 1534). She remained fiercely loyal to Katherine of Aragon and Princess Mary in their fell from grace. She exchanged letters with Eustace Chapuys, ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and even visited him in disguise during the period when it was dangerous to become Henry VIII’s enemy. How much Gertrude knew of the proposed match between Reginald Pole and Princess Mary remains unknown, but she certainly favoured the idea of the Anglo-Imperial war. In late 1535, Katherine of Aragon’s health began to deteriorate and it became clear to everyone that she was mortally ill. She died on 7 January 1536 amid rumours of poisoning.

Sources:

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, The Forgotten Tudor Women: Gertrude Courtenay. Wife and Mother of the last Plantagenets

https://tudorsdynasty.com/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-gertrude-courtenay-marchioness-of-exeter/?amp=