#henry II

[steellegacy]

Our project is almost 4 years old!

This is an incredibly painstaking and meticulous work that requires a lot of time, patience and artistic precision.

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Нашему проекту почти 4 года!

Это невероятно кропотливая и скрупулезная работа, требующая много времени, терпения и художественной точности.

[wonder-worker]

The attraction of Eleanor of Aquitaine to post-medieval historians, novelists and artists is obvious. Heiress in her own right to Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest fiefs in Europe, she became in turn queen of France by marriage to Louis VII (1137–52) and of England by marriage to Henry II (1154–89). She was the mother of two of England’s most celebrated (or notorious) kings, Richard I and John, and played an important role in the politics of both their reigns. She was a powerful woman in an age assumed (not entirely correctly) to be dominated by men. She was associated with some of the great events and movements of her age: the crusades (she participated in the Second Crusade, and organized the ransom payments to free Richard I from the imprisonment that he suffered returning from the Third); the development of vernacular literature and the idea of courtly love (as granddaughter of the ‘first troubadour’ William IX of Aquitaine, she was also a patron of some of the earliest Arthurian literature in French, and featured in one of the foundational works on courtly love); and the Plantagenet–Capetian conflict that foreshadowed centuries of struggle between England and France (her divorce from Louis VII and marriage to Henry II took Aquitaine out of the Capetian orbit, and created the ‘Angevin Empire’). She enjoyed a long life (she was about eighty years old at the time of her death in 1204) and produced nine children who lived to adulthood. The marriages of her offspring linked her (and the Plantagenet and Capetian dynasties) to the royal houses of Castile, Sicily and Navarre, and to the great noble lines of Brittany and Blois-Champagne in France and the Welfs in Germany. A sense of both the geographical and temporal extent of Eleanor’s world can be appreciated when we consider an example from the crusades. Eleanor accompanied her husband Louis VII on the Second Crusade in 1147–9; when Louis IX went on crusade over a hundred years later, he left France in the care of Blanche of Castile, a Spanish princess and Eleanor’s granddaughter, whose marriage to Louis’s father had been arranged by Eleanor. Just this single example shows her direct influence spanning a century, two crusades and three kingdoms.

— Michael R. Evans, Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine

[artschoolglasses]

Armour of Henry II, King of France, circa 1555

From the Met Museum

[illustratus]

Henry II the Pious departing for Legnica by Jan Matejko

[stephantom]

Eleanor: You'd only just found Rosamund. Henry: Not her so damn particularly. I found other women. Eleanor: Countless others. Henry: What's your count?

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[liveactionproblematicotd]

Today’s problematic ship is King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine from The Lion in Winter

Toxic

Requested by anonymous

[thatsbelievable]

[burningdreambanana]

Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton in Becket (1964)

[nortism]

I’ve got a mutual reblogging Henry II/Thomas Becket yaoi, I clearly haven’t been thinking big enough

[the-girl-from-another-place]

Playlist for when you’re writing a paper about thomas becket

[steellegacy]

Before and After:

⚜️ Repoussé and chasing the bevor for the close helmet of the Lion Armor

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До и После:

⚜️ Чеканка подбородника для клоузхельма (закрытого шлема) от Львиного доспеха

[baublecoded]

FILTH TEACHES FILTH.

[satansemployee]

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— callbacks in the lion in winter (1968)‎‎

A little project to tide me up while I wait to complete my binding of the movie screenplay. This is the second draft of the screenplay for the movie, so a couple quotes might not be found in the movie (like John's "mother me") but also might be missing. even though this draft has some amazing deleted lines.

the quotes are just in order of when I thought about them, since I was surprised by just how explicit some themes are. watching it with subtitles the amount of "dogs barking" around when Henry does anything is almost comical. But at the same time they're not simple callbacks, ya know? The motivs are just subtle enough to be motivs but you can still find them in writing. Anyway. James Goldman has now become my ridicolous writing standard to aspire to that I'll never achieve. gooood for me.

(edited on 29/06 and added another callback)

[wonder-worker]

The fact that Henry II had two parents who were willing to relinquish their titles and share their authority with him (with his father even writing that he hoped Henry would one day "surpass me and all my predecessors in power and dignity") only to become known as the guy who drove literally all his sons into open revolt against him because he refused to give them adequate power 🤡

[mariocki]

Chester cathedral crazy for memorializing these gays like this

[historyja]

arthuriana proves to be a hit for 10th century in a row