#rlly showcasing hcavill's 'acting' here...anyways. let me mind my business
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Thomas Stafford was the ninth child and second surviving son of Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Ursula Pole. Little is known of his early life, first being mentioned in 1550 as he travelled to Rome, where he associated with his uncle Reginald Cardinal Pole. He spent three years in Italy before travelling to Poland, obtaining the recommendation of King Sigismund Augustus who requested Mary restore him to the Dukedom of Buckingham. Augustus's appeal appeared to have no effect. When Stafford returned to England in January 1554 he joined the rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt; this arose out of concern of Mary's determination to marry Philip II of Spain. The rebellion failed and Thomas was captured and briefly imprisoned in the Fleet Prison before fleeing to France. There, he intrigued with other English exiles and continued to promote his claim to the English throne. On 18 April 1557 (Easter Sunday) Stafford sailed from Dieppe with two ships and over 30 men. Landing in Scarborough on 25 April 1557, he walked into the unprotected castle and proclaimed himself Protector of the Realm,[2] attempting to incite a new revolt by denouncing the Spanish marriage, railed against increased Spanish influence and promised to return the crown "to the trewe Inglyshe bloude of our owne naterall countrye".[1][3][4] Stafford claimed he had seen letters at Dieppe showing that Scarborough and 12 other castles would be given to Philip II and garrisoned with 12,000 Spanish soldiers before his coronation.[5] Three days later, the Earl of Westmorland recaptured the castle and arrested Stafford and his companions. Stafford was beheaded for treason on 28 May 1557 on Tower Hill, after imprisonment in the Tower of London. Thirty-two of his followers were also executed after the rebellion.[6].
#rlly showcasing hcavill's 'acting' here...anyways. let me mind my business#i need the tudors to be less underrated than it is bcus like. the way i totally buy this was a rant he totally gave...#'they have plantagenet blood in their veins' (so do you; babygirl) and all#bcs like. he is truly the worst. but is he wrong?#thomas stafford like my grandfather was right! the tudors suck dhfagrfwragfm#honestly the reason being given as her marriage to felipe ii was probably just a pretense#also yes this is all from wiki. don't judge me .#for all the faults of the writing (and it had plenty) it really like...took you to that emotional place#of this is the worst man in the world but also. he's sort of right. and just lets you sit#in the discomfort of that...#and also that this is all his self-fulfilling prophecy to some extent. reginald pole wrote that indictment of him#but he didn't have it widely published until he. yk. killed his entire fucking family bar geoffrey#(and then this does happen to edward courtenany to some extent too. altho it seems he was more pawned than complicit)#marian#henrician#i actually didn't know about this rebellion ...really contradicts that narrative#that all mary's plantagent relatives 'adored' her; huh?
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