#house of aragon

[livesunique]

Castle of Loarre,

Huesca Province, Aragon autonomous region of Spain,

Credit: Navid Fatehpour

[kate-bridgerton]

TUDOR WEEK 2024 Day 3 - Wednesday, 16th of October: Best Tudor What If?

What if Arthur survived his illness and ascended to the throne as King Arthur II?

Rather than dying young, Arthur survived the sweating sickness and continued his life with Katherine of Aragon in Wales. In the seven years that followed, they had two surviving children together, Margret (named for Margaret Pole as well as the prince's grandmother and sister) and Arthur. So as he ascended the throne in 1509 at the age of 22, he already had an heir to continue the Tudor line.

[cesareeborgia]

catherine of aragon + various media portrayals (requested by anonymous)

[gulnarsultan]

https://www.tumblr.com/gulnarsultan/734317783513497600/hello-can-you-do-anna-boleyn-and-catherine-of?source=share

Could you do part 2 where Sultan reader sends all his Concubines or wives away to keep Anna/Catherine happy?

Hello. I hope you like it.

》Part 2《

Catherine was a patient and intelligent woman. First, she made her husband look after her alone. In other words, a new woman was no longer entering the Sultan's life. Later, she started sending concubines and wives (childless) to her palace. After getting rid of them, it was time to send away the wives and concubines who had children from the Sultan. She sent the legal wives first and then the concubines.

Anne was not very patient. But that doesn't mean she isn't cunning. First, she started to prevent other women from getting close to the Sultan. She later caused the Sultan to turn away from the women was with. She sent them all away from the Palace in a short time.

[a-turtle-dove-on-my-breast]

Thanks @hilda-dewitt for this great piece of work depicting Louis I of Anjou and Marie of Blois, great-grandparents of Margaret of Anjou. Louis I of Anjou was the founder of the Angevin cadet branch of the House of Valois, and Marie of Blois was the first of a series of powerful women in the House of Valois-Anjou.

I really found their story to be full of fun and drama. After King John II of France was taken prisoner in the Battle of Poitiers, Louis broke the Aragonese marriage contract arranged by his father to marry Marie, the daughter of one major claimant to the ducal throne of Brittany, neighboring his appanage of Anjou. His desire to meet his wife pushed him to end his hostage career in England prematurely on his own, and more or less led to the decision of John II to return to captivity, lol. While Marie's father fell in battle six months after John the Good's death in London, the couple remained close and intimate throughout their lives. Louis served as a leading military commander in his elder brother Charles V's reconquest of southwestern France during the second phase of the Hundred Years' War. He was also a loyal friend and protector of Bertrand du Guesclin, who fought for Marie's father before entering service for the Valois. However, due to his role in the 1378 tax revolts and his overambitious claim to the throne of Naples, Louis remained a controversial figure in France, and his past accomplishments were little appreciated. After Louis's death in the unsuccessful march to Naples, Marie continued their quest for the Neapolitan crown, and, after a tough fight against opposing claimants, secured for their seven-year-old son Louis II the County of Provence, which was in a personal union with the Kingdom of Naples. She acted as regent for Louis II during his minority, and arranged the marriage between him and Yolande of Aragon.

[mermaidbarbies]

Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon, in images from a choirbook created by the workshop of Petrus Alamire, and commissioned by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, c.1510s.

Henry and Katharine are each supported by a saint: Henry by Saint George as the patron saint of England, and Katharine by her namesake saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

[motof1bfs]

these are the xdumbest fucking memes I've ever made -🏍

[psychicpiratementality]

poems I wrote for henry viii's six wives, along with original graphics

[marythequeen]

in the honor of england's first queen regnant's coronation anniversary, enjoy her and her mastermind mother<3

Mary’s relationship with her mother is key, and Katherine must be understood not as a weak, rejected wife but as a strong, highly accomplished, and defiant woman who withstood the attempts of her husband, Henry VIII, to browbeat her into submission and was determined to defend the legitimacy of her marriage and of her daughter’s birth.

-Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock

[panzerdrako]

Welcome Back to The House of Mystery

Neil Gaiman / Sergio Aragonés

[maryqos]

"Many scholars have highlighted the fevered debate over Catherine of Aragon's virginity during the 'Great Matter.' Yet her body, and its sexual and reproductive history, was the subject of public discussion from the moment she arrived in England at the age of fifteen. Between 1509 and 1518, geopolitical tension exaggerated this discourse regarding the state of her body and its relationship to England's political potency. By the 1520s, Henry VIII's progressive obsession with the need for a male heir had also amplified these associations. Catherine's experiences as a procreating queen consort consequently influenced the ways in which her contemporaries scrutinized and politicized royal pregnancies within the framework of European politics."

caroline armbruster, "'this dolorous chance:' contemporary views on catherine of aragon's pregnancy losses."

[turtlele]

Tree

Jane, showing a new app: It shows me your exact locations, which means I no longer have to worry about unclear directions from a certain person.

Everyone: looks at Anne

Anne: What? I was very clear. I said to meet by the tree.

Kat: Which tree, Anne? We were in the forest!

[itinabe]

[wgm-beautiful-world]

La Casa EL TORICO en Teruel, Aragon, ESPAÑA

[gulnarsultan]

How would Catherine or Anna boleyn feel when the reader given birth to healthy triplets (2 boys and 1 girl) after she had Elizabeth also what yandere henry reaction to finally having the son he wanted???

Old Catherine is too smart to react too strongly. She feels disappointed and resentful. She is very afraid for his daughter Mary. She's worried about her daughter's throne. She prays that her daughter is not harmed and that she can ascend the throne.

Anne tried to get rid of the reader at first. She has endeavored to eliminate reader and babies without giving birth to babies. She will be very angry. She was jealous of your reader, but now she's too jealous. She will try to do something to get rid of the reader and the babies. But Henry will fail because he is too protective of the reader and his babies. They will soon be executed for their actions.

Henry was frustrated after Elizabeth's birth. Anne became pregnant again but gave birth to a stillborn son. This had exhausted Henry's patience. He was both angry and very angry. He finds happiness in the reader in a short time. Henry makes your reader her legitimate mistress. Henry is overjoyed when the reader becomes pregnant. He protects and cares for your reader throughout her pregnancy. He is very happy and proud when his healthy triplets are born. He had never been this happy in his life now that he had male heirs. He tells the reader how he is proud of her and loves his. He will marry the reader. He will declare the triplets heirs to the throne. No one can stop Henry.

[useless-catalanfacts]

This is the world’s oldest national flag still in use: the Pennon of the Conquest (Penó de la conquesta), raised by the Moorish of València on the 28th of September 1238 when they surrendered to the troops of Catalonia-Aragon, led by the king James I.

The flag is 2 meters long and is made of a white cloth that time has turned yellowish, with four red bars painted over it. The Moorish troops made the flag of the conquering army (the emblem of the House of Barcelona) to show that they were surrendering, and waved the flag from the Alī-Bufāt tower (nowadays called Temple Tower), in the Medieval Islamic city walls of València.

ID: Wall paintings in the Castle of Alcañiz (Aragon) that represents the king James I the Conqueror (Jaume I el Conqueridor) approaching València, with senyera flags on the city wall’s towers.

The king talked about this event in his chronicle Llibre dels Feyts: “We sent to tell the king Abulhamalet, so that the Christians would know that València was ours, and for them to not injure anyone, to hang our flag from the tower now called of the Temple; and they said they agreed. And we went to the riverbed, between the gardens and the tower; and when we saw our flag upon the tower, we dismounted from our horse, and heading eastwards we cried from our eyes and kissed the earth for the great mercy God had made to us.”

This pennon was considered a relic and James I ordered to keep it in the church of Saint Vincent’s hospital, where it remained until the 19th century. Nowadays, it’s kept in València’s City Historical Archive (Arxiu Històric Municipal de València), in the City Hall.

The symbol represented in this flag (four red bars over a yellow background) has been the House of Barcelona’s flag since at least 1150, with origins dating even further back.

The flag of the House of Barcelona is still the flag of Catalonia, Aragon, the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands nowadays (all the areas that in the Middle Ages were part of the confederacy of Catalonia and Aragon).

Source: La stoffa delle nazioni by Bruno Cianci, Vilaweb.