#house woodville

[cesareeborgia]

↳ house woodville & house boleyn + parallels (requested by anonymous)

[queen-boleyn]

REBECCA FERGUSON as Elizabeth Woodville [2/∞] The White Queen | The Price of Power

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design, c. 1479.

[jamesfrain]

The White Queen — Episode Two "The Price of Power" prev.: I

[card1gan]

Queen Elizabeth Woodville and Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen parallels

surely the mother above loved my children more. she took so many of them away from me. — alysanne targaryen, fire and blood.

[sirgawin]

Phia Saban as Queen Helaena Targaryen in House of the Dragon Season 2 // Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England

[austin-friars]

Philipa Gregory going out of her way to demonize Margaret Beaufort, who was 100% a victim of child marriage and rape, while in the same breath romanticizing Edward and Richard will always be jarring to me. In the show, Edward attempted to rape Elizabeth to the point where she had to threaten suicide to get him to back off, but she still portrayed him as genuinely 'good' guy. Richard was behind the death of his nephews historically, but she made that vague, and then had him with his niece (????), but for the majority of the show he was portrayed as a 'nice guy'. IDK it's weird. It's weird when female authors have the ability to impact how historical women are seen in their literature, and instead of being kind to them, they are cruel. Gregory's writing has negatively impacted the portrayals of Margaret and how she is viewed in a lot of historical literature circles.

Sis you had ONE job!!

[aelfgyvaa]

|| 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 & 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 ||

|| 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 & 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐮 ||

[alienoryva]

"Queen Alysanne Targaryen" 🦢ଓ⁠⁾⁠⁾

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Fancast - Actress : Rebecca Ferguson as Queen Elizabeth Woodville in The white queen

[reignof-fyre]

I can only liken Alicent and Viserys' marriage to that of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV.

Elizabeth Woodville was, according to the times she lived, pretty much a commoner. She was the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Her fathers title had to be swiftly thought up because Jacquetta, former aunt-by-marriage to the actual king, married so below her class. They earned even more titles and honors when Margaret of Anjou married Henry VI, whose brother was Jacquetta's brother in law.

So, in short, Elizabeth Woodville was the daughter of a noble and a servant. She, at the time of her marriage to Edward IV, was a widow and mother of two sons. She was not considered a good match for Edward, but according to history, it was a love match and they married in secret, and once out in the open, it caused an absolute shit show because Warwick, the Kingmaker, had planned on marrying Edward to the Princess Bona of France, but was completely blindsided by Edward's marriage to Elizabeth, a commoner. One of his own subjects.

Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, all but made Edward King and believed he would be enriched and given a multitude of honors for the troubles he went through to get Edward on the throne, but with Edwards marriage to Elizabeth came her sons and siblings and in-laws etc, and so her family were given riches and honors and lavish marriages rather than Warwick, which infuriated him (rightfully so, imo).

Warwick and Edward's dislike turned to pretty much open warfare, and several times would Warwick try and overthrow Edward, first with Edward's brother George, Duke of Clarence, by using the age old rumor that Edward was illegitimate and marrying George to Warwick's daughter Isabelle Neville, and Warwick executed Elizabeth's father Richard and brother John.

The second time, Warwick and George allied themselves with Margaret of Anjou and her and Henry VI's son Edward. Warwick's daughter Anne Neville was married to Edward, the Lancastrian heir, as part of the agreement, and Henry VI was put back on the throne, but it didn't last long, because Warwick and Edward's (son of Margaret) were killed in battle and the rebellion pretty much fell apart.

George, Duke of Clarence, would later be executed by being drowned, allegedly, in a vat of malmsey wine, for other reasons, and Edward's youngest brother, Richard, would usurp the throne from his nephew and become Richard III. He would be overthrown by Henry Tudor, who would marry Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.

There was already a lot of unrest in England at this time, prior to Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth, of course, but the king marrying a commoner and giving her oh, so common family honors and riches, snubbing the nobility, surely didn't help matters.

It's why I liken it to Alicent and Viserys. Alicent is pretty much a commoner. The daughter of a second son with barely a dowry - or one paid by her uncle, Lord Hightower - no lands, no armies, no armada, etc - so it makes sense that the rest of the nobility are mad, are kind of disgusted, but it annoys me that they're not more put out about it, which would be realistic, especially considering that the lords didn't bother putting their daughter's forth because they believed it to be a foregone conclusion that Viserys would stick with tradition and marry Laena Velaryon, a lady of Valyrian/Targaryen blood, but he didn't, and insulted a great many lords and young maidens, but of course that isn't shown in the show whatsoever 🙄

[juanatrastamara]

the white queen 10 year anniversary: house lancaster vs house of york

[cesareeborgia]

↳ favourite queen consorts of england

[queen-boleyn]

REBECCA FERGUSON and MAX IRONS as Queen Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward IV The White Queen | The Price of Power

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design, c. 1481.

[maryqos]

"But Kavita Mudan Finn has shown that while fifteenth and sixteenth century authors admired Elizabeth's virtue, being a 'good' girl limited her literary potential compared to the 'traitor' Margaret of Anjou and 'adulteress' Elizabeth Woodville, who allowed for more risqué representation and didactic moralizing. Writers lauded Elizabeth of York for uniting Lancaster and York, and they sometimes portrayed her as a virgin martyr in accounts where Richard III tried to force her into wedlock. But otherwise, legitimizing Henry undercut her status by subordinating her to him, and in literary sources she rarely appears following their marriage. In William Shakespeare's works, she practically disappears."

william b. robison, "the sexualization of a 'noble and vertuous quene': elizabeth of york, 1466-1503."

[bstag]

House York.