#Philip II of France

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 118th Tilt

“Man With Snake”, Edward II (1991) VS. King Philip II, The Lion in Winter (1968)

Propaganda

“Man With Snake”, Edward II (1991) Portrayed by: Barry John Clarke

“Credited simply as "Man with Snake" for his brief appearance in Derek Jarman's glowing, homoerotic re-imagining of Edward II, a golden thong- and crown-clad Clarke performs a languid dance with a snake coiled above his shoulders and— only five minutes into the film— becomes an iconic figure of New Queer Cinema. It's a powerful moment that invites the audience to watch Edward's diversions through an explicitly gay gaze. He's probably less of a set character than he is a symbol of desire and danger entwining, but I'd still like to plead his case. (Cont. Below the cut)

Philip II, The Lion in Winter (1968) Portrayed by: Timothy Dalton

“I will forever and always have a crush on Timothy Dalton on this movie. Philip is definitely a side character in it, for sure, but it's still a great performance (especially considering it was Dalton's film debut!) and he's also so cute.”

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Additional Propaganda

For Man With Snake:

"Jarman counters the trope of homosexual theft visually with the triumphant figure of Man with Snake. The Dantesque merging of snake and thief is replaced by an erotic dance in which the gilded youth raises his phallic partner above his head and seductively kisses it on the mouth [...] Jarman clears away all overdetermined theological meanings to revel in the purely aesthetic impact of the phallic dancer. All the ghosts from Dante’s snakepit are conjured away in the film and replaced with the solid presence of a single gorgeously spotlit male body." (from James Miller, ‘Man with Snake: Dante in Derek Jarman’s Edward II’, in Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations, and Re-writings in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries)

TLDR, iconic hot gay snake man. Fun fact, the snake's name is Oscar! (As in Wilde?)”

For Philip II:

“I confess that I haven't actually watched The Lion in Winter, but I don't have to recognize that young Timmy Dalton is a total babe in it. Those eyes! That jawline! Real royals *wish* they were this hot.”

[angevinyaoiz]

My Medieval 12th century inspired art book zine "If All The World Were Mine!" Is now available to order! Thanks everyone who signed up to my notification list, and bought it at the show! I had a great time sharing it with everyone hehe.

I have a tier for just the zine itself, as well as for a full-package deal with prints (Sacral Anointment and Blood of the Vassals!) and Melusine + Bestiary stickers.

The zine is 52 pages, in full color, and has a collection of my favorite pieces from the past couple years, including some of my nsfw arts. There are a couple of new illustrations I haven’t yet shared publicly, so can’t wait for everyone to see them!

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[mapsontheweb]

The reign of Philip II of France, 1180-1223.

by @LegendesCarto

[rmelster]

History would be much different if anointed queens “passively did the best and let their husbands abandon them”. Not only Katherine of Aragon, but also Isabella of Hainault, queen of France to Philip II, who at the tender age of fourteen walked barefoot and clad in humble garb to win the hearts of the French and make her husband not annul their marriage. She went back to her husband and gave birth to the future king.

[asha-mage]

I read Solomon's Crown and now I desperately need a CK3 bookmark set pre 3rd Crusade, maybe during the Revolt of 1173, so that I can toggle same sex marriage on then marry Richard to Philip and bring Aquitaine back to France, poke Henry III in the eye, and give Philip the ideal husband/general in one shot. (And hey if that ends in France unified with England because of the unforeseeable circumstance of Richard ending up on the English Throne, that's just the way the cookie crumbles.)

[declanisms]

idk how anything will ever be funnier than being in history class and finding out people write fanfiction about richard the lionheart and philip ii

[gameofthrones2020]

My Hundred Years War Causes Series

The Hundred Years War did not just begin as a dynastic dispute which left the throne of France having multiple claimants with the death of Charles IV of France, the last male of the mainline of the Capet dynasties, in 1328.

The Hundred Years War did not just begin as a dynastic dispute which left the throne of France having multiple claimants with the death of Charles IV of France, the last male of the mainline of the Capet dynasties, in 1328. The driving forces behind this conflict were geopolitical, historical, and dynastic disputes over the succession and the expansion of Capet’s dynastic power in France during…

[illustratus]

Mediaeval Battle of French and English — The Surrender of John II of France at the Battle of Poitiers.

English School, (19th century)

[royalpain16]

May 15, 1948

At age 21 (turns 22 six days from this photo) , Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) is three months pregnant with Prince Charles.

Touring France along with Prince Philip, she is wearing a Norman Hartnell design. Just four years before her coronation and six months before the birth of Prince Charles.

[grandmaster-anne]

Uploaded 3 March 2023 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in France (1972) Buckingham Palace has today announced that King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort will be making a State Visit to France and Germany at the end of March 2023 – the first state visit by the new King since he became monarch. In anticipation of the trip, we've looked back through our collection to May 1972, when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh made a State Visit to France. This report covers the second day of the trip, when the pair took part in a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate those who served in the Second World War and Queen Elizabeth met veterans of the French Resistance. That afternoon, Prince Philip spoke - in French - at a lunch given at the Chamber of Commerce. The Duke spoke of renewed cooperation between Britain and France after a decade of heated exchanges. Indeed, at the time of his speaking, Britain was only months away from joining the European Economic Community (EEC), the predecessor to the European Union (EU). Finally, the day ended with the pair attending a reception at the British Embassy.

[artistictiana]

Found some drawings from January id like to share

[medievalandfantasymelee]

Somehow this hasn't been mentioned in his propaganda, so: I think it's very important for people to know that Dalton's Philip II is explicitly queer (but/and, as he snarls approximately 2 inches from Peter O'Toole's face, "no man's boy,") and the hot, bitter ex of Anthony Hopkins' Richard the Lionheart. They're unhinged, they make each other worse (affectionate), and the chemistry is off the charts.

Man With Snake [Barry John Clarke] VS. No Man's Boy/Richard the Lioneheart [Anthony Hopkins]'s bitter ex [Timothy Dalton]

[angevinyaoiz]

All the blossoms in my garden 🪴

An Angevin-Plantagenets family tree I made for my medieval art collection zine, “If All The World Were Mine!” The physical edition is now available, so check it out if you can :D

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

How come Catherine de Medici loved Henri so much even though he (cheated and) significantly favoured Diane de portiers, and also slighted her at time like with the castle she wanted and he didn’t give it to her?

It is the accepted narrative that Catherine de’ Medici was obsessively in love with her husband King Henri II, despite the fact that--or perhaps because, depending on who you’re reading--he was clearly in love with Diane de Poitiers. It’s not terribly different from the stories told about Juana of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella and heiress to Castile. She was married to Philip IV Hapsburg, duke of Burgundy, who was reportedly both very handsome and a womanizer. The stories claim that Juana was so wildly in love with her husband that, after he died from illness, she carried his corpse with him wherever she travelled, and renounced the throne of Castile out of grief and madness. In fact, she is popularly known as Juana la Loca or Juana the Mad.

This is almost certainly propaganda spread both during Juana’s lifetime and after her death. Whatever her feelings were for her husband, he repaid them by conspiring with her father King Ferdinand to dethrone Juana in favour of her young son Charles so they could collectively rule on his behalf. Similarly, much of what we know of Catherine de’ Medici’s feelings for her unfaithful husband comes from the same sources that tell us she was a poisoner and the centre of webs of intrigue and murder.

We know Catherine never remarried or showed any interest in remarrying after Henri’s shocking death in 1559, but there are plenty of reasons for that. She and Henri were married when both of them were 14 years old, and for the first ten years, Catherine was blamed for the couple’s inabiilty to conceive any children. Henri took multiple mistresses at first, but finally settled on Diane de Poitiers, who he treated with far greater respect and affection than his wife. In January 1544, after nearly eleven years of marriage, Catherine finally gave birth to the long-awaited heir to the throne. After him, she had nine more children who survived infancy, and nearly died giving birth to two more.

We also know that she adopted the image of a broken lance and the motto “lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor“ (”from this come my sorrow and tears”) after his death in a jousting accident. But it’s worth remembering that her position as Regent of France on behalf of three of her sons over the next half-century at least partly depended on her keeping up an obvious connection to the previous Valois king. How much of Catherine’s grief was real and how much was politically motivated, we honestly can’t say. But she was an extremely clever woman who spent years flying under the radar before ending up all but ruling France, so she was certainly adept at playing dangerous games.

[histoireettralala]

Philippe II, Isabelle, and the divorce that wasn't.

In 1184 Philip Augustus, provoked by the growing hostility towards him from Philip of Alsace, made a move which angered the latter: he sought divorce from Isabella, the count's niece. The decision to end his marriage was probably political rather than personal, aimed against the count of Flanders and to a lesser extent against the count of Hainault. It was also motivated by a desire to underline his independence of the count of Flanders, as earlier he had distanced himself from his Champagne relatives. It was a move which backfired, in that it failed to achieve a divorce, but which had something of the desired effect politically.

Queen Isabella was only fourteen, and the marriage may not yet have been consummated. Philip called a council at Senlis in March 1184, claiming that the marriage was invalid on grounds of consanguinity. One aim, some have suggested the main aim, was to detach Isabella's father from Philip of Flanders. The move also reinforced Philip's reconciliation with his Champagne relatives, who had always opposed the marriage.

Isabella, however, was no mere puppet. She felt no guilt over her marital conduct and made public demonstration of the fact. She took off her jewelled clothes and emerged from the palace clad only in a chemise, barefoot, and carrying a candle. She distributed alms to the poor, to beggars and lepers, entering churches in the city to pray. Those who had received her gifts gathered before the palace to demonstrate their support. Philip's counsellors advised him to restore the queen, pointing out that repudiation would lead to the loss of Artois. He had offered Isabella the chance to marry again, to choose a husband for herself, but she insisted on maintaining her position as queen of France, declaring: 'it does not please God that a mortal should enter the bed in which you slept' . The king backed down and Isabella was restored.

Giselbert of Mons described a meeting between father and daughter at Pontoise, at which Isabella wept, saying she was wretched because her father and husband were in conflict, with her father supporting the count of Flanders against the king. The divorce threat came as a shock to the count of Hainault. He was embroiled in local disputes, notably against his vassal Jacques d'Avesnes. The father's decision in 1184 to switch his allegiance from the count of Flanders to the king is a key moment in the struggle between France and Flanders during the 1180s.

The move brought advantage to the king, but it caused problems for the count of Hainault. He now found most of the northern princes allied against him: the count of Flanders, the dukes of Brabant and Louvain, the archbishop of Cologne and Jacques d'Avesnes among them. Valenciennes and Mons came under attack. Hainault's only possible salvation was aid from France, so the count appealed to Philip, and at Christmas sought out his son-in-law at Loudun.

When the crunch came in 1185, Hainault sided with France against Flanders, a crucial element in the balance. The Plantagenets were engaged in their own internal squabbles, which Philip helped to stir. Affairs were building towards a showdown.

Jim Bradbury - Philip Augustus, King of France, 1180-1223

[minervacasterly]

3 October 1568: Elizabeth of Valois, Queen Consort of Spain died.

Her daughters Catalina Michaela and Isabel Eugenia were her husband's favorite offspring and his letters to them still survives. Why is she important? She was best friends with Mary, Queen of Scots. The two grew up together, her brother Francois married Mary, uniting both crowns of France and Scotland until his early death which prompted the Scottish Queen to return to her homeland in 1561.

*And* she was first betrothed to Edward VI, King of England, Henry VIII's only surviving son. Dudley and co. favored a French alliance over an Imperial one and the marriage treaty was sealed in 1550, however the King's untimely death three years later undermined it.