#nicholas carew

[fideidefenswhore]

Whilst Mary's and Elizabeth's supporters nailed their colours to the mast, Richmond's activities give little clue as to his inclination. At the Chapter of the Order of the Garter held in April 1536, Richmond voted both for Anne's brother, Lord Rochford, and for Sir Nicholas Carew, who was no supporter of the Boleyns. His action probably reflected the mood of much of the court as they waited to see which way the die would fall.

The Life and Political Significance of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, 1525-1536. (Murphy, A. Beverley)

[lacharmante]

Hans Holbein d. J., 1497 Augsburg – 1543 London, Werkstatt/ Nachfolge des - PORTRAIT DES SIR NICHOLAS CAREW (1496 – 1539) - Öl auf Holz. Parkettiert. - 91 x 70 cm.

[blackbirds-on-the-marsh]

Thank you! I made sure to reference real suits while designing it— I like it when fantasy armor looks somewhat realistic, as opposed to the more nonsensical stuff you tend to see.

The creature, tentatively called a Bryophyte for now, is a creature that dwells in still or slow-moving bodies of water. They’re sedentary, only ever going on land if the water they’re in becomes contaminated or otherwise unsafe to stay in, and that’s to find a new water source. They use their claws to anchor themselves to rocks or logs at the bottom, and keep their top above water. Plants grow on their bodies, and they have in a sort of symbiotic relationship with them, gaining nutrients from the plants while providing them a solid base to grow.

They’re harmless to humans outside of the occasional drowning if someone gets stuck under one, and don’t even have mouths, getting all their nutrients from the plants that grow on their bodies. Because of this, and the fact that they only live in healthy waters, they’re believed to cleanse the waters and are a sign of good luck.

Children will often jump on their backs, and even though that does injure them, they rarely react beyond shaking or sinking a little. They’ve got no natural predators as adults both because of how well they blend in and the plates on their back, though they’re a hot spot for all sorts of parasites both mundane and magical. Most warn their kids not to touch them with ungloved hands because they will get bit by an unbelievable amount of things.

Most of the population of this setting lives by or on the water, so they’re a regular sight, and have many names depending on the region. For some cultures, fishing season only starts once they’ve been spotted once again, as it means the water’s good. If one is ever seen leaving the water, it’s considered an extremely bad sign. This is because they only ever move to relocate, which is either due to growing too big for their current depth, or because the water is bad. People don’t know exactly why, but they do know that they never nest anywhere the water’s bad. People who drink or fish from the places they’ve abandoned usually end up sick.

This one’s a male of his species, for now at least. Much like anemones, they can change their sex depending on what’s convenient, and are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction depending on the situation. Juveniles are much slimmer, without any of the plates seen on the adults, and are migratory for a few weeks before eventually settling down to grow their scales and get some plant buddies. It’s common for babies to be caught and placed in various bodies of water in hopes they’ll make it safe, which never works.

Because of their lack of predators and status as a beloved species, outside of their first few months of life where the mortality rate is astronomical, they tend to live very long lives. Nobody actually knows just how long they live, because it’s very hard to estimate their age. Most people believe they don’t die naturally, and the death of one is viewed as a sign of impending catastrophe and is reason to seal up wells and change fishing locations.

Most cities built on lakes or rivers incorporate them into their iconography, because of their status as a symbol of luck and safe waters. Fishermen will carve them onto the prows of their boats, or keep little figurines of them for a good catch.

I’ve nicknamed this one Jim! The size comparison knight is named Elijah.

[ID: digital art of a knight in ornate gray and brown plate armor standing next to a monster. The monster’s body is long, made up of bark-shaped scales and covered in blue, green and red moss. It hunches on its hind legs, having no other limbs, with dark moss dripping from its underbelly and bugs sitting on its body. Its face is round with no features other than two large, round eyes with dots for pupils. Even hunched over, the monster is slightly taller than the knight. End ID.]

Art for a roleplay setting I’m working on.

[edwardseymour]

“Jane was not in attendance at the May Day jousts and both she and Henry took great pains to ensure that her name was kept out of the fall of Anne Boleyn. A few days before the arrest [2 May], Jane moved to Beddington, the large country estate of Nicholas Carew at Sutton in Surrey. Jane found it a comfortable house and, as an honoured guest, she was lodged in far better rooms than she would ever have been used to. For Jane, the stay at Beddington was a precursor to what she could expect as queen and she was treated with all the deference due to a future queen as she waited anxiously for news.”

— Elizabeth Norton, Jane Seymour

[ednyfedfychan]

“Her brother Edward Seymour, the future Protector Somerset in the reign of Jane’s son Edward, seems a somewhat unlikely ‘conservative’, even in the mid-1530s. If these conservatives were really dangling Jane in front of the king, could they be sure that she, and her family, would be their allies? Were there no young ladies from the families of those named by Chapuys? And how sound a scheme was it? How confident could Sir Nicholas Carew be first that Henry would be interested in Jane Seymour and secondly that if Jane became Henry’s mistress, that would lead on to political advantages for the conservatives, especially the downfall of Anne Boleyn?”

— G. W. Bernard, Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions

[handfuloftime]

Happy Battle of Cape St Vincent Day! 

Paintings:

Nicholas Pocock, The ‘Captain’ Capturing the ‘San Nicolas’ and the ‘San Josef’ at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 (1808)

John Hayter, Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew (c. 1833)

George Jones, Nelson Boarding the ‘San Josef’ at the Battle of Cape St Vincen4, 14 February 1797 (1829) 

John Hoppner, Admiral John Jervis, 1735-1823, 1st Earl of St Vincent (late 18th/early 19th c)

Daniel Orme, Nelson Receiving the Surrender of the ‘San Josef’ at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 (1799)

[historicconfessions]

[queenmarytudor]

I am told the cause of [Nicholas Carew's] arrest was a letter found in the coffer of the Marchioness [Gertrude Courtenay], by which he informed her of some conversations held in the King's chamber. [...] I know not what letters of mine could have been there for I never wrote any to anyone in this realm that I would not like published, except to the late good Queen and to the Princess, who would take good care to burn them. And seeing that of late, they wished to blame the said Marquis [Henry Courtenay] and others executed because they had found no letters in their possession, saying that they had burnt them lest the wickedness therein contained should be discovered, it might easily be suggested that I had several times written to the Princess. To avoid that suspicion I have sent her a dozen letters which she can show if necessary; and for my part I should like if some occasion offered for the King to see and read them.

Eustace Chapuys to Charles V, 9th January 1539

[incorrectenglshreformationquotes]

Durham: Ok, so listen, I know about your diabolical plan. Surrey: What?! Diabolical plan? I wouldn’t even know how to begin a— Durham: *holds up several sheets of parchment, with the front page entitled “My Diabolical Plan, by Nicholas Carew, The Knight of the Shire for Surrey.”*

[marriageandthecrown]

Dan jones:

"But Anne grew too confident and paid for the crown with her life."

It just makes me roll my eyes so hard when historians still point the finger at Anne for her own downfall, as if she wasn't surrounded by enemies, (including her own kin - fck you very much Norfolk, Carew, Bryan etc - ), had a husband who had changed towards her, had lost two likely male heirs and all this in an extraordinarily short amount of time.

No, you're right, all her own reckless and stupid fault. How dare she rise so high, right? Like it was only down to her that she was even able to in the first place and no one else had anything to do with it as well either 🙄

[fideidefenswhore]

In any event, it is important to point out that Carew's interest in securing Mary's position, reflected also in Bryan's deposition, came to nothing. The chief aim of this group seems to have been to restore Mary in the king's favour but this did not happen until members of the faction formed in her support had found themselves in significant trouble for their agitation on Mary's behalf, under suspicion of plotting against Henry. According to Chapuys, Mary herself was 'in the greatest perplexity and the most dangerous position that ever she was.' The aftermath of this episode did see Mary restored in her father's favour, but only after she had signed articles renouncing her previous defiance and consenting to the king's religious reforms and redirection of the succession, to her intense mortification. In no sense can the faction formed in support of Mary be seen as having achieved what they wanted.

A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions, ed. Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva & Alexander Koller

[artist-holbein]

Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew, 1533, Hans Holbein the Younger

Medium: wood,tempera

[alilyamongroses]

How much do you wanna bet Jane Seymour wrote and distributed pamphlets around court called “how to steal your mistress’ husband in a god honoring way”

[bforbetterthanyou]

Do you know any friends of the Boleyns in general, not just Anne? I think Richard Sampson was a friend of Thomas.

Well, a lot of the people who were loyal to Anne were friends of the whole family.

Thomas Cranmer, the Wyatt family, Thomas Wolsey (yeah in the early days he apparently liked Thomas very much).

I know that’s not much but those are the people I can think of off the top of my head. Francis Bryan, in the beginning, and I think Nicholas Carew as well (although he also turned against the Boleyns eventually).

There’s an episode of Talking Tudors about supporters of the Boleyns, I want to say it’s episode 75, so if you want to know more, I’d check that out.

[ednyfedfychan]

“While Anne was in the Tower courageously facing her judges, Jane was staying with Sir Nicholas Carew in a house a few miles from London. She was one of the first to learn of the Queen's condemnation and sentence; Henry sent her childhood friend and protégé, Sir Francis Bryan, with the news shortly after he received it, and himself called upon her in the afternoon. The ten days that elapsed between her betrothal to the King and the marriage in Whitehall were spent by Jane at her family home. The legend that the wedding festivities took place in the great barn at Wulfhall, which stood close to the house, may have had its origin in celebration parties given in honour of the future queen by her parents, for we can imagine the excitement among the Wiltshire neighbours and the pride of the jubilant Seymours. We do not know what dazzling gifts of jewellery Henry may have given to his bride as a wedding present - surely they must have included the precious stones that we believe she so demurely rejected a few months back - but in the matter of property he was certainly not ungenerous. No fewer than one hundred and four manors dispersed throughout nineteen counties were transferred to Jane, with five castles and a number of chases and forests, including Cranborne Chase, then a vast area of open forest concealing tiny hamlets, and still one of England's most beautiful stretches of down and woodland. In London she was given Paris Garden, a somewhat unattractive piece of land on the south bank of the Thames that took its name from a previous owner, Robert de Paris, and when not used for bearbaiting was the favourite venue for women of easy virtue.”

— William Seymour, Ordeal by ambition: An English family in the shadow of the Tudors

[im-the-letter-t]

I just realized something

Anne Boleyn had a cousin named Nicholas Carew. Now, when I was reading about this fact, I wondered “hmm, where have I heard that name before?” and then I realized...

EMMA CAREW!

Like, from Jekyll and Hyde. 

Hear me out 

Emma is distantly related to Anne Boleyn. 

But she wouldn’t be related to historical Anne Boleyn. (Because she’s fictional)

She has to be related to a version of Anne Boleyn from a musical. 

SIX

This girl

and this girl

are distant cousins.

And they were both romantically involved with people named Henry.