#the rough wooing

[scotianostra]

16th June 1548 saw a large French army land at Leith to support the Scots following an agreement that Mary Queen of Scots, still only five, would marry Francois, eldest son of King Henri II of France.

This was during The Rough Wooing, Henry VIII was attacking Scotland in the hope he could force a marriage between his son and the young Scottish Queen.He sent an army into Scotland with instructions to

 ‘put all to fyre and swoorde, burne Edinborough towne, so rased and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it, as there may remayn forever a perpetual memory of the vengeaunce of God lightened upon them for their faulsehode and disloyailtye.’ And ‘putting man, woman and child to fyre and sworde without exception, where any resistance shall be made agaynst you,’ 

Edinburgh and everything within a seven mile radius was laid waste. So was large swathes of Fife.  Fife.

The French realised that there might be a useful second front in the north in their war against the English. They sent 3,500 soldiers who landed in Dumbarton in June 1545. But Scots resistance was undermined by sections of the nobility sympathetic to England and a Protestant alliance, which allowed another English expeditionary force under the Earl of Hertford to ravage the south of the country, burning the abbeys of Kelso, Jedburgh and Dryburgh.

Henry VIII died in January 1547  and the Earl of Hertford, now Duke of Somerset, was named Protector of England, redoubled efforts to force the Scots marriage for the 10 year-old king. This time he came north with an army of 17,000, including for the first time some 4,000 heavy cavalry and artillery. Scotland’s Regent The Earl of Arran, uniquely, sent the Fiery Cross, a Celtic signal used as a call to arms, through the kingdom and gathered 25,000 men who met the invaders at Pinkie Cleugh, half south east of Edinburgh. It has been described as a conflict between an army of the Renaissance and one of the Middle Ages, and the last battle to be major fought between the kingdoms of Scotland and England.

The result was a catastrophic defeat for the Scots. Amongst those captured was the Earl of Huntly, who remarked that he ‘did not so much mislike the match as the rough manner of wooing’ and thus gave the name to the campaign.

Following the Scottish defeat, power began to move from Arran to the Queen Mother, Mary of Guise. She appealed for more French aid, and its price was the betrothal of the infant Queen of Scots to Francis, the heir to the French throne. Shortly after the landing of another 5,000 French troops at Leith in June 1548, Queen Mary left for France, where she would marry the Dauphin, be widowed and finally return to Scotland 13 years later.

The English seized and occupied the town of Haddington, east of Edinburgh; fighting continued but Henry’s policy had failed.

The Treaty of Norham of June 1551 put the seal on peace. The Rough Wooing had achieved nothing except an enormous drain of resources, appalling casualties and a delay in the implementation of the Reformation in Scotland.

The French army remained in Scotland until 1560 when Mary de Guise died, and the Protestant Lords of the Congregation asked for English help to expel them from Scotland.

The pic is a contemporary “map” showing Leith and Edinburgh around 1560.

[fischiiru]

AA LETS GO TEAM PAST!! Had to doodle them as soon as I saw the results. I’m so proud of us, even though the odds were against us we still made it

Grandfest was so much fun, so much love and care were clearly put into it and shows

Alr it’s getting sappy time!! This game has been part of my life for a whole 6 years now and I honestly wouldn’t be the same without it, splatoon is the whole reason I started posting art back in 2018 and the reason why it’s improved so much today

I’ve gotten to meet so many people and make so many fun memories with this game, it honestly feels like yesterday that we all got the splatoon 3 announcement and were freaking out over the customization in the trailer.

Coming back to splatoon after not playing for a while was such a great experience and reminded me why I love this game so much

Grand fest is now officially in the past (hehe), here’s to what comes next!

[deadl-ine]

Amy & some ghosty friends

And some bonus animated Amy’s 🌹

[rabbitcruiser]

The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army on May 7, 1544 was the first action of the Rough Wooing.

[storiesbreathed]

hit that heart for a meme spam from one of the new or high activity muses :

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lunarosa/ the dark urge ( baldur's gate 3 )

putrice ( cinderella’s castle )

justine grizzwald ( cinderella’s castle )

sir hop-a-lot ( cinderella’s castle )

the fairy queen of sweet dreams ( cinderella’s castle )

astrid becke ( critical role )

cyriel ( critical role )

imogen temult ( critical role )

binx choppley ( a court of fey and flowers )

dea ( the grinning man )

christine daae ( phantom of the opera )

eurydice ( hadestown )

johanna barker ( sweeney todd )

tessa gray ( the infernal devices )

annie cresta ( the hunger games )

katniss everdeen ( the hunger games )

tashi duncan ( challengers )

[call-me-chips]

Can you draw Mari from the hit-indie game Omori, please?

Here ya go!

[harvestmoth]

there are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[scotianostra]

November 22nd1547 saw 3,000 Scottish troops besiege Broughty Castle.

Dates differ by a day or two.

This was during “The Rough Wooing” when Henry VIII tried to secure a marriage between Mary and his own infant son, Edward.

The Duke of Somerset invaded Scotland in 1547, and after defeating us at the  battle of Pinkie, his fleet continued to scour the Scottish coasts, and, the fortresses on the islands of the Firth of Forth, in August the English seized the Castle of Broughty,. 

While the Somerset departed with his army by the south-east of Scotland, the Earl of Lennox, who had sided with Henry VIII, entered Scotland by the west, and his presence everywhere spread terror. 

The Regent Arran collected the scattered remains of the Scottish army  that had fled after the defeat at Pinkie, and marched to blockade the Castle of Broughty with up to 3,000 troops.

The Scots knocked down part of the tower but failed to capture it.

The English strengthened their hold on the area over the following months, at the same time as the Scots and the supporting French built up their forces in Dundee. On 20th February 1550 the French and Scots succeeded in capturing a subsidiary fort also held by the English a short distance to the north on Balgillo Hill, and the following day Broughty Castle surrendered to them.

[mmmwafflesart]

I just want to say I love your art and art style especially your skyward sword content <3

thank you!

[dare-g]

Headed to a 12 hour horror movie marathon at the theaters soon! Tbh I can't remember the time I've pulled an all nighter so I hope I can make it! Anyway here's the line up 💀

[jackalopescruff]

howling mournfully <- doesnt have money to get food today and is also flat broke in general with a ton of bills

[tainted-sweet-meats]

mmm my oc Rodney :3c

[ozzyfromthecafeteria]

ah. i forgot that pre-history i takes place in the 1980s and that hm. does throw a little wrench in the kinda worldbuilding i had thought up for static sroadtrip. oh well this can be a little anachronistic. as a treat. i can Make Up things the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts-style

[myplasticadversary]

So I've been thinking about 1974 in my Plastic Ono Band universe, and I think what I've settled on is John and Yoko still separate and she puts out Approximately Infinite Universe and meanwhile John is antsy about recommitting to Paul without her but manages to get talked into briefly joining Wings to play lead guitar for recording Band On The Run, long as he can bring his girlfriend May. #9 Dream replaces Mamunia (which is released as a B-side to Helen Wheels) and Let Me Roll It breaks out into the Beef Jerky jam as an outro.

But I've been trying to decide, if John is on the album does that mean he goes with them to Lagos or does he wait till they come back for overdubs? I feel like with all the crazy shit that happened on that trip like the robbery and Paul's heart attack and getting antagonized by Fela Kuti (who had a point let's be real) John would believe that's all somehow due to his presence being a curse despite it having nothing to do with him and afterward be even more compelled to self-isolate, that is if he would decide to go in the first place.

[darkdragon768]

Needed to sketch down some pokemon for future events in my pmd story.

[saltedsolenoid]

an INCREDIBLY rough draft for the map of foxglove creek, the main setting of together in hell. it's made from four images because. um. that's just how i did it

apologies for the bad handwriting and thin lines, since i'll be touching this whole thing up soon i'm not bothering to make it better... sorry!