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queenmarytudor · 5 days
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“As [French ambassador] Noailles reported, Mary would force ‘not only men, but also the elements themselves, to consent to her will’.”
— Mary Tudor England’s First Queen by Anna Whitelock, 2009, page 288
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queenmarytudor · 9 days
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I have the article- The Local Community Revisited- as a PDF; do you want me to send it to you?
Omg really? You’re a queen! 👑 I would love that thank you 🥰
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queenmarytudor · 12 days
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"Trusty and right wellbeloved, we greet you well and your letter addressed hither perceive your diligence, your faithfulness and true hearts ready to serve and to have defended us against our traitors and rebels, who now God be thanked are under feet, and the chief thereof as the Duke of Northumberland and others admitted to ward in our Tower of London and other prisons. Wherefore as ye have well deserved we give you and all our good subjects in your company our right thanks, minding to consider the same to your comfort, requiring and praying you all this trouble now being overlaid, to desire our said subjects in God’s peace and ours to repair home to their dwelling places and there to remain till we shall need their further services, with continual prayer to God for his grace to preserve us and the coming wealth to his glory. Given under our signet at our town of Colchester, the first year of our reign."
- Mary I to Sir Peter Carew, Sir Thomas Denys, and various esquires, July 1553
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queenmarytudor · 13 days
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oooh I just found a letter from Mary addressed before she got to London in July 1553!
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queenmarytudor · 13 days
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WTF?!
£44 for 24 hours access to an article?! History books should be free to read because you're expanding your knowledge!
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queenmarytudor · 14 days
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Mary I's Fight For The Throne Masterpost
An ongoing series detailing the events of 1553, where Mary Tudor assembled an army against her brother's nominated successor, Lady Jane Grey, to become England's first crowned queen.
10th February
13th March
*This post will be updated with each new entry
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queenmarytudor · 14 days
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So excited for you guys to read the July posts about Mary/Jane Grey there’s so many sources I found in my research that are never mentioned in any Mary biography! We have John Knox mentions, fighting sailors, Mary’s first official proclamation to rally people to her cause, letters from Jane and Mary with their handwritten signatures included… 😍 hopefully you’re gonna love them and learn loads like I did!
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queenmarytudor · 15 days
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Mary I's Fight For The Throne
13th March 1553 - Mary writes to her cousin, Charles V
Sire: The opportunity of a safe and reliable messenger having presented itself, I have dared, however unworthy, to write this short letter to your Majesty. I beseech you, as you have shown yourself in the past and even unto this day to be my help and refuge, nay, my second spiritual father, so to continue in your great goodness and virtue towards me, that through you I may obtain that which for nearly two years past has been denied me. I hope your Majesty may remember the numerous requests proffered by your ambassador to the King, my brother's, Council to grant me permission to observe the ancient religion, according to the promise made after the death of the late King, my father, whom God shrive! Nevertheless, no good results have come of them, and therefore I now make so bold as to ask your Majesty once more, with all humility, that you may be pleased to give fresh orders to your ambassador to repeat his requests to the same effect; or at least, when a season shall appear more propitious in your Majesty's eyes, may he by all possible means try to obtain that the hearing of mass in secret may be permitted and granted to me. I remit myself entirely to your Majesty's prudence and discretion; and I shall be all the more obliged as too many obligations bind me already to you. I will pray God, while I have life, to grant the fulfilment of your Majesty's high, noble and virtuous desires, with health and prosperity. Beaulieu, 13 March, 1553. 1
It can be assumed this letter is in response to her servant Francis Englefield being arrested once more. On the 21st February, the Privy Council, including John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, note in their meeting "a letter of appearance [summons] to Mr Inglefelde". 2
Englefield's actions are not mentioned throughout the following summer, with contemporary chronicler Robert Wingfield recording that in late July "two excellent knights of no small worth came to the queen on their release from custody, for they had not only been '[imprisoned] but had suffered many other indignities because of their unswerving loyalty to their queen: Anthony Browne [...] and Francis Englefield." 3
Meanwhile...
On the 18th March, Andrew Dudley returns to London having been an ambassador at the Holy Roman Emperor's court in Brussels. 4
Englishmen fit out 3 sea vessels to go on a voyage of discovery. 5
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1. Spanish State Papers, 13th March 1553
2. Acts of the Privy Council, 21st February 1553
3. Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield
4. Spanish State Papers, 21st February 1553
5. Spanish State Papers, 7th March 1553
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queenmarytudor · 18 days
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“[Italian Alessandro] Magno is particularly taken with the swans on the Thames, protected from harm by force of law, and he describes a kind of royal zoo at the Tower of London, where he saw a leopard and four lions, and where “every monarch places a lion, so they are named after their donor. Hence one can see a Henry, a Philip, a Mary and an Elizabeth.“”
—  The Italian Encounter with Tudor England, by Michael Wyatt, 2005, page 121
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queenmarytudor · 20 days
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buried with one of his teeth!?????
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queenmarytudor · 20 days
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actually debating whether to email the Bodelian library asking for a summary...
This is my plea for more Mary historians to use different sources that tell us something interesting (and make them more widely known!)
Picture me, trying to find out how many Masses Mary said daily and illegally in Edward's reign for my novel. I type it into google books, and find an extract from a book which sounds promising:
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Andddd I can't read it beyond the preview :(
But the page number lets me know where to look on springer.com. Which, I also can't read it there but it gives me the reference at least:
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 90, f. 157r. For lay attendance at the Divine Office, see Nicholas Orme, Going to church in medieval England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), 231–33.
So when I search for it, MS Tanner 90 is titled:
"Letters and papers relating to affairs of state during the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI. and Queen Mary, bulk: 16th-17th century"
and folio 157 specifically is named:
"The establishments and good ordynauncis made for the good rule of the houshold of the ryght honorabill and most excellent prynces the lady Maryes grace", 1 Feb 1549."
which I have never heard of. No Mary focused book or scholar have ever seemed to mention it? After a few minutes of googling I finally managed to find out Mary Anne Everett Wood mentioned it!
In 1846.
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Anyway, enjoy a rambling post about how annoying it is to find interesting Mary sources that aren't as well known - aka Spanish and Venetian state papers!
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queenmarytudor · 24 days
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"And to be plain with you, according to mine own custom, there is not one amongst the whole number of you all that would be more loath to be found untrue of their word than I. And well I am assured that none of you have found it in me." Lady Mary to the Privy Council, 11th May 1551
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queenmarytudor · 25 days
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🎉🎂✨🍰🥳 Happy Birthday, Baby Girl! Let's burn some protestants to celebrate. You know you won!
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queenmarytudor · 27 days
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“While Mary was no longer to be referred to as ‘princess’, let alone as Princess of Wales, her old position had not been entirely forgotten. On 1st March 1537, the feast day of St David, the patron saint of Wales, the Yeoman of the King’s Guard presented her with a leek, the country’s symbol.”
— The Kings Pearl Henry VIII and his daughter Mary, by Melita Thomas, 2017, pages 221 and 222
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queenmarytudor · 29 days
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People should make more doomed by narratives siblings relationship.
Like with lovers you can just sever it and not have it related to you ever again but with siblings how could you?
You grow up with them you raise them or they raised you you both know how unforgiving the world is to both of you? You would die for them but will hate them for doing the same and yet none of you would regret it and both of you know it. They could be the person you loath the most and miss the most cause you still remember how they sneaked a candy into your hands. You can sever the tie but you can never look away at what you've lost, at whom you've lost because fate doesn't allow you to be together, eating dinners in quiet peace, if only there's another life, another time, where i can make you another plate of pancakes i would im sorry im sorry im sorry —
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queenmarytudor · 1 month
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Just said on tv a recent survey found people with lower pitched voices are seen as more sexy so justice for Mary and her deep man’s voice I guess 😂
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queenmarytudor · 1 month
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Mary I, Queen of England by The Balbusso Twins
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
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