#henry fitzroy duke of richmond and somerset

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

HENRY FITZROY

HENRY FITZROY, DUKE OF RICHMOND AND SOMERSET

c. 15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536

SON OF KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND

            Henry Fitzroy was the son of Elizabeth Blount and Henry VIII. Blount was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon and mistress to the king.

            Fitzroy was born in 1519 and Henry VIII recognised him as his son, most likely to let it known that he was capable of having a son (he and Catherine only had a surviving daughter Mary).

            FitzRoy was made him Duke of Richmond in 1525 and later the Duke of Somerset, having two dukedoms was a great honour. Henry VIII, 34, was frustrated that he had no legitimate male heir. Catherine, 40 became resentful towards the honours given to FitzRoy.

            FitzRoy was raised as a prince in Yorkshire; Henry VIII was fond and was interested in his son’s upbringing. In 1529, he was made Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and there was a plan to crown him King of Ireland. In 1532, Henry VIII visited Calais to meet with Francis I of France and took FitzRoy with him. FitzRoy moved into the French court until 1533, when he returned to England. Henry VIII was in the process of having his marriage to Catherine annulled, there were plans for FitzRoy to marry his half-sister Mary.

            In 1533, FitzRoy, 14, married Mary Howard (cousin to Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn), the marriage wasn’t consummated.

            Henry VIII and Parliament were enacting the Second Succession Act, which would have allowed FitzRoy to become king.

            FitzRoy became ill and died at the age of 17 at St. James’s Palace. FitzRoy was placed into a straw-filled wagon, and the only two mourners followed it at a distance. He was first buried at Thetford Priory, where the members of the Howard family were buried. During the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the Howard family moved the family remains to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, where it remains today.  

            Henry VIII died in 1547 and his legitimate son Edward VI became king until his death in 1553. When Mary Howard died in 1557, she was buried alongside FitzRoy.

#henryfitzroy #henryfitzroydukeofrichmondandsomerset #HenryVIII #elizabethblount

[bloodtiesstilllives]

Let's Talk A Little About Henry And Lestat Pt.2: The Tale Of Two Princes

Henry Fitzroy is the son of a King, but he was a bastard and so would not be in line for the throne. He was well favored by his father and so he was given the title of Duke of Richmond and Somerset.

Lestat was technically an aristocrat even though he was the seventh son of a marquis and more than likely wasn't going to inherit anything anyway. But boy still had that dignified air about him.

Despite age and experience, both of these guys have managed to retain that joie de vivre. I'm guessing that being turned at an age when they were at the peak of youthful exploration helped a lot.

But they do have their serious, sad, lonely moments.

AND...they are both artists.

Henry is a painter and a story teller. He writes and draws horror graphic novels and has made quite the name for himself among the fans of that genre. Lestat is an actor and a musician.

I can only imagine how they could inspire each other.

[fideidefenswhore]

i just realised no one ever fancasts henry fitzroy, duke of richmond & somerset...at the risk of ~phoning it in~ again, Oliver Zetterström?

[fitzrxyal]

penned by wren for @bloodydayshq

HISTORY: 

name: elinor mary fitzroy

age / d.o.b.: twenty three / 16th may 1536

status / rank: lady richmond

country of origin: england

place of birth: durham house, london

birth order: only child

mother & father: henry fitzroy, duke of richmond and somerset ✝ & lady mary howard ✝

siblings: n/a

sexuality: homosexual

horoscope: taurus

virtues: creative, loyal, amiable

vices: proud, stubborn, impatient

marital status: unmarried

issue: none

religion: anglican

allies: percys, boleyns, the crown

adversaries: -tba

TIMELINE:

1519 - henry fitzroy born to henry viii and elizabeth blount

1525 - henry fitzroy elevated to duke of richmond and somerset

1533 - henry fitzroy married to mary howard, marriage initially unconsumated

1536 - elinor fitzroy born, henry fitzroy dies from consumption, elinor made ward of the crown

1530s-1540s - devonshire manuscripts compilied in part by mary howard, elinor developes love of poetry

1557 - elinor's wardship transferred to the seymours, mary howard dies

BIOGRAPHY:

elinor fitzroy had lived on unstable ground since before she could remember. her father had died at seventeen when she was only two months old, leaving her a ward of the crown, with a grand enough inheritance that half of england wanted to get their hands on it. so she learned to play the right parts: blushing maid, dutiful granddaughter, coy heiress, all the while dancing away from the hands of men that would seek to manipulate her money and connections for their own means.

and throughout it all, there was her mother.

mary howard taught her daughter the love of langauge and the use of her own brains. she taught her daughter the value of her own self, and the joys of independance. elinor adored her mother, and mourned her deeply.

now twenty three, elinor sits at the crossroads of political turmoil and refuses to let it sway her. she makes friends where she wishes, and writes her poems, and holds her head high. she will be mistress of her own destiny, and god help anyone who stands in her way.

[thetudors]

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[ao3feed-mcshep]

Drabble Fest 2022

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ZMRBNK1

by Tarlan

16 drabbles written for Allbingo Drabble Fest 2022

Words: 1597, Chapters: 16/16, Language: English

Fandoms: Eureka (TV), Black Sails, The Walking Dead (TV), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Alien Quadrilogy (Movies), Stargate Atlantis, The Chronicles of Riddick Series, World War Z (2013), Blood Ties (TV), Lethal Weapon (Movies), Persuasion (1995), The Mummy (2017), Adventure Inc., The Fugitive (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M, F/M

Characters: Jack Carter (Eureka), Nathan Stark, Captain Flint | James McGraw, Daryl Dixon, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, The Sulaco (Aliens), John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Richard B. Riddick, Gerry Lane, Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Mike Celluci, Martin Riggs, Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Nick Morton, Judson Cross, Stefan George, Samuel Gerard

Relationships: Jack Carter/Nathan Stark, Daryl Dixon/Rick Grimes, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Mike Celluci/Henry Fitzroy, Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth, Judson Cross/Stefan George

Additional Tags: Drabble Collection, Community: allbingo

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ZMRBNK1

[apho-sappho]

The wanton talk, the divers change of play, The friendship sworn, each promise kept so just, Wherewith we passed the winter nights away. And with this thought the blood forsakes my face, The tears berain my cheeks of deadly hue, The which as soon as sobbing sighs, alas! Upsupped have, thus I my plaint renew: "O place of bliss, renewer of my woes, Give me account where is my noble fere, Whom in thy walls thou didst each night enclose, To other lief, but unto me most dear.' And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, in his short time of serving Henry FitzRoy, seemed to join him everywhere. When the latter had been kept in the French court, Surrey had joined him. Surrey had ended up gaining influence from the French court in his overall style later. Below is a quote I got from British “History Online’s Letters and Papers of Henry VIII’s Reign”.

Jessie Childs, in her biography of Henry Howard called “Henry VIII’s Last Victim”, says this of Henry Howard’s poem about Windsor:

It has been suggested that Surrey’s elegy can also be read as a love poem. He adopts romantic language and applies Chaucerian subtexts in order to convey the strength of his feelings for Richmond. He wants to express the power of their ‘sweet accord’ and emphasise the uniqueness of a relationship that transcended all others. This sentiment is extremely powerful and very real. Surrey longed for close companionship and a friendship based on trust and mutual attraction, not kinship or service. His exultation at finding a soulmate, an alter ego, is contrasted with his isolation and pain at his subsequent separation from Richmond – ‘Give me account where is my noble fere . . . To other lief, but unto me most dear.’ Surrey defined himself in terms of his relationship with Richmond; together they were Priam’s sons whose destiny was intertwined and even in his last portrait, Surrey chose to depict his friend alongside him.

Stephen Guy-Bray in “Homoerotic space: The politics of loss in Renaissance Literature”, says this:

Given the critical unwillingness to consider the possibility of homoeroticism, the usual assumption is that what Surrey felt for Richmond was friendship rather than love, but the distinction cannot be supported from the poem itself, or at least not in the very modern sense in which critics use it. Surrey depicts his relationship with Richmond as something that transcends other relationships, as a bond that can be compared to the love between Troilus and Criseyde or to love affairs in Surrey's other poems. I think the crucial word in this context is 'fere,' the main term Surrey uses to refer to Richmond. This word was fairly common with Surrey and Chaucer, but fell out of use within a hundred years of Surrey's death. The Oxford English Dictionary lists three main definitions: companion, comrade, mate, partner; consort, spouse, husband, wife; equal. [...] and in 'So crewell prison' to mean the Duke of Richmond, whom I think we should see as Surrey's companion, consort, and equal. [...] The relationship depicted in “So crewell prison' seems impossible to restrict to any one point on that continuum and is better placed in a complex of relationships that includes friendship, companionship, love, and sexuality. For this reason, Padelford's classification of the poem as autobiographical is helpful, because that category in his edition includes political poems and love poems that talk of love between men and women. If we discuss 'So crewell prison' only as an elegy for a friend, we ignore much of the poem. If we follow the implications of Padelford's classification and consider 'So crewell prison' as a poem that tells, among other things, of the romantic love between two young men, we shall finally be in a position to appreciate the poem's complexity.

Both boys seemed to like poetry and the hunt. Richmond was known by his tutor to be “lured into” skipping classes by his gentleman usher, George Cotton (who eventually became Governer of the Household) and a boy simply named “Scrope”, in favor of going hunting and playing archery. Despite this, his tutor still complimented Richmond for his “great wit”.

They both seemed on even playing field in terms of wit and skill in the hunt. They seemed, in their short time together, to be very close. Whether or not they actually had a relationship is unknown, but I personally believe that they had some type of relationship. Henry Howard, I believe, definitely was bi or gay, or somewhere in between, due to reasons I may dive into on another post.

[edmundtudor]

TUDOR WEEK 2021 | DAY 2

Favourite Tudor Family Members: The lost princes.

ARTHUR, PRINCE OF WALES: 20 September 1486 - 2 April 1502. Eldest child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

EDMUND, DUKE OF SOMERSET: 21 February 1499 - 19 June 1500. Youngest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

HENRY, DUKE OF CORNWALL: 1 January 1511 - 22 February 1511. Only son of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.

HENRY FITZROY, DUKE OF RICHMOND AND SOMERSET: 15 June 1519 - 23 July 1536. Illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount.

Yes, I am aware that FitzRoy was not a prince, however considering the circumstances, I am including him with the others.

[altairtalisman]

Reference List of Six OCs (as of 18 July 2024)

This is a reference list of ALL the Sixtended Verse OCs on Tumblr, mainly so that we don’t have two OCs based on the same historical figure like Hans Holbein again as well as to keep track on which historical figures have been done.

Amalia “Mali” of Cleves by @pandora-dusk

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Anne “Anya” Askew by @toasty-owl-arts

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Anne “Ann” Parr by @inquisitive-mess

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Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales by @djts-arts

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Cathryn Carey and Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon by @weirdbutdecentart

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Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, and Lady of Toronta by the now deactivated @the-fox-arts

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Dorothy “Roth” Seymour by @altairtalisman

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Elizabeth “EB” Barton, The Holy Maid of Kent by @spooner7308

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Elizabeth “Liz” Seymour by @vancsssa

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Elizabeth “Ellie” Tudor by @me-tizi

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Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile by @weirdbutdecentart

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George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford by @ellielovesdrawing

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Hans Holbein the Younger by @podsn

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Hans Holbein the Younger by @redlover411

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Henry “Hal”, Duke of Cornwall by @blackdiamondwrites127

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Henry “Fitz” Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset by @maths-is-my-religion

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Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland by @cheemken

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Isabella Trastámara, Queen of Portugal by @lexartsstuff

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Jane “Janey/JJ” Grey, Elisabeth “Sisi” of Valois, Guildford Dudley, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Edward VI “Teddy” Tudor, King of England and Ireland by @ratscraftz

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Jane “JP/Jane P” Parker, Viscountess Rochford by @altairtalisman

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John Astley by @yourdeepestfathoms

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Juan Trastámara, Prince of Asturias, Margaret “Maggie” of Austria, and Isabella “Izzi” Trastámara by @weirdbutdecentart

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Juana “Ju-Ju” de Castile by @ellielovesdrawing

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Katherine “Kat” Ashley by @yourdeepestfathoms

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Katherine “Kath” Tudor by @ellielovesdrawing

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Lillia “Lily” Trastámara by @ellielovesdrawing

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Margaret Beaufort by @redladydeath

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Margaret “Meg” Tudor, Queen of Scotland and Mary “Marie” Tudor, Queen of France by @me-tizi

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Maria “Mari” of Jülich-Berg, Duchess of Cleves by @blackdiamondwrites127

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Maria Trastámara, Queen of Portugal by @blackdiamondwrites127

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Marion Trastámara by @vancsssa

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Mark Smeaton by @ellielovesdrawing

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Mary “Mara” Boleyn by @mariegreythepoet

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Mary Fitzroy-Howard, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset by @maths-is-my-religion

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Mary “Mezza/Maren” Stuart, Queen of Scots by @to-the-world-we-dream-about

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Mary I "Mari" Tudor by @crimsonnight186

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Sibylle of Cleves, Electress Consort of Saxony by @blackdiamondwrites127

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Thomas More, High Chancellor of England by @spooner7308

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William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by @lexartsstuff

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William “Will” Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton by @weirdbutdecentart

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William “Willie” Stafford by @weirdbutdecentart

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Sixtended OC’s Height Chart by @inquisitive-mess

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In History . 15 June 1519 . Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond & Somerset was born . ◼ Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount, a lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon. . ◼ Henry was given the surname ‘FitzRoy’ to make sure that all knew he was son of the King (FitzRoy is an Anglo-Norman name originally meaning “son of the king”.) . ◼ The child was officially acknowledged by the King after the early deaths of the three sons born to the Queen. . ◼ Following his divorce from Katharine of Aragon & his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s attachment to Henry Fitzroy assumed a greater significance, particularly when his second wife also failed to produce a male heir. . ◼ Appointed Knight of the Garter in 1525 & made Duke of Richmond & Somerset in the same year, Henry Fitzroy was given several important positions, including that of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. . ◼ His education was entrusted to the distinguished classical scholar Richard Croke, who had taught Greek to Henry VIII, & was extended by attendance at the court of Francis I in France for eleven months in 1532. . ◼ ◼ At the of age 14, on 28 November 1533 the Duke married Lady Mary Howard, the only daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was an uncle of two of the wives of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard, . ◼ It appears that Henry VIII contemplated making Henry Fitzroy his heir, but whatever the King’s intentions may have been, the plan was spoilt by Henry Fitzroy’s premature death of tuberculosis at the age of 17 in 1536. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1519 #d15jun #HenryFitzroy #DukeofSomerset #DukeofRichmond #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #otd #OnThisDay #bornonthisday #Tudor #Tudors #henryviii #kinghenryviii #monarchy #onthisday #historyinpictures #TudorHistory #thetudors #England #Britishhistory #EnglishHistory #Englishroyalty . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJenpVDeWy/?utm_medium=tumblr

[catherinesboleyn]

The Ladies-In-Waiting: Elizabeth (Bessie) Blount

A lady-in-waiting is a female personal assistant at court, royal or feudal, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman, but of lower rank than the woman to whom she attended.

Bessie Blount was born sometime in 1498 as the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Pershall. There is no known portrait of her that exists, but she was said to have been a great beauty, and she came to court as a maid-of-honor to Queen Catherine of Aragon. It was somewhere between 1514 and 1515 that she would catch the eye of the one and only King Henry VIII.

Bessie was a mistress to Henry for quite some time, about eight years to be exact. This was unusual compared to his other mistresses, who he usually discarded quickly. This affair eventually led to Bessie ending up pregnant in 1518, and she gave birth to Henry’s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, on June 15th of 1519. Because of the kings desperate need for a son and heir, he acknowledged Henry Fitzroy as his own, and made him Duke of Richmond and Somerset and Earl of Nottingham.

After the birth of Henry Fitzroy, the affair between Bessie and the king ended, though it is not known why. In 1522, Bessie was put into an arranged marriage with Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme. After this, Bessie did not seem to have much involvement in the Tudor times, or it wasn’t recorded that she did at least.

Gilbert Tailboys died in 1530, and on July 23rd of 1536, Henry Fitzroy passed away of what is believed to have been tuberculosis. She still had 3 children from her marriage to Gilbert, one daughter and two sons. She married again to Edward Clinton sometime between 1533 and 1535, which gave her three more daughters.

When Henry VIII married his fourth Queen, Anne of Cleves in 1540, Bessie served as her lady-in-waiting for a short time, but had to leave due to health problems. She passed away in January of 1540, not too long after she returned to her husbands estates. Bessie was aged about 42 when she died from what is believed to have been consumption.

[ladiesoftheages]

I feel like people don’t talk enough about Anne becoming the Marquess of Pembroke. Why Pembroke specifically?

Titles weren’t given randomly. Henry didn’t just blindly point to a spot on the map and say “okay you’re the Duke or Earl or whatever of this place”. The title always had a connection to the person. Henry FitzRoy was given the Dukedoms of Richmond and Somerset which were both titles held by Henry VIII’s Tudor (Richmond) and Beaufort (Somerset) ancestors. FitzRoy was given these titles specifically because Henry wanted everyone to know that FitzRoy was his son and had royal blood. And who held the Dukedom of Somerset after FitzRoy? Edward Seymour, the uncle of Henry’s legitimate son.

So why Pembroke? Well, Jasper Tudor was the Earl of Pembroke. Henry VII was born at Pembroke Castle.

Henry gave the title of Marquess of Pembroke to Anne to proclaim to everyone that she was a part of his family. He was firmly linking her to his royal ancestors.

[katybirdy95]

ROYAL MISTRESS SERIES | ELIZABETH “BESSIE” BLOUNT


EARLY LIFE 


Elizabeth Blount was the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Pershall. John was a loyal, but unremarkable, servant to the royal family who accompanied Henry VIII to France in 1513, where Henry waged war against Louis XII. Elizabeth’s parents were young at the time of their marriage with Elizabeth’s mother believed to have been around twelve at the time of her daughter’s birth in 1500, although other dates for Elizabeth’s birth have been placed between 1498 and 1502.


At 12-years-old, Elizabeth came to court as a lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, the wife of Henry VIII. Historical records state that Elizabeth earned 100s a year, that would be £5 today. A lady-in-waiting to the queen was a much sought after position within the court, which meant that Elizabeth must have possessed the many qualities like beauty, grace and good manners, she was particularly renowned for her skill in music and dance, to the point that she would often partner with the king in revels. It has been hinted that she wrote her own music and was described by John Barlow, the Dean of Worcester to be more beautiful than Anne Boleyn, which could mean that Elizabeth possessed the correct beautiful standards of that time – golden haired and blue eyed.


ROYAL MISTRESS

Elizabeth relationship with the king began sometime between 1514 or 1515. It was said that Henry became aware of Elizabeth during a masque were her high spirits and energy matched the king’s own and it was noted that during the masque, Elizabeth possessed a pretty singing voice and was a superb dancer. On that night, Elizabeth wore a gown of blue velvet with a golden cap and mask, she danced mainly with the king and the pair made for a handsome pair and caught the attention of the entire court, especially the unsuspecting Katherine who invited her husband and lady-in-waiting to her private rooms, so that they could repeat their performance. 


According to some historians, Henry fell in love with Elizabeth straight away and she became his first big extramarital affair. Elizabeth made for an ideal mistress for Henry as she was young, beautiful, intelligent, acquiescent, well raised, musical, an enthusiastic rider and a graceful dancer and by the time of this affair, Henry was no longer deeply in love with his wife, Katherine of Aragon. 
The first evidence of a relationship between Elizabeth and Henry came about when Elizabeth’s father was given £146 by the king and two months after that exchange of money, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, referred to the affair in several letters to his friend and later brother-in-law Henry VIII. Although, the relationship lasted nearly six years, Henry was very discreet when it came to his affairs and very few people knew about it, until her pregnancy became public and even then, it wasn’t fully confirmed until the birth of their son, Henry FitzRoy. 
Historians have expressed concern over how old Elizabeth was at the beginning of her relationship with the king, Henry was twenty-three and Elizabeth between the ages of thirteen or fourteen. The concern was that having sex at such an early age could cause illness and possibly death, but when life expectancy was so low many were prepared to take the risk and with Elizabeth’s own mother being twelve at the time of Elizabeth’s birth, perhaps Elizabeth wasn’t too concerned about the risks. 


At another masque in the year 1518, the court celebrated a new alliance between Henry’s two-year-old daughter and her betrothal to the dauphin of France, which never came to anything, where Elizabeth performed a song dedicated to his majesty, which she had written herself with the accompanying music of William Cornish, the Master of the King’s Chapel. The song was discovered in a manuscript belonging to Henry VIII, here is the song in full:


While life or breath is in my breast,


My sovereign lord I shall love best,


My sovereign lord, for my poor sake,


Six courses of the ring did make


Of which four times he did it take:


wherefore my heart I him bequest,


And, of all other, for to love best,


My sovereign lord.


My sovereign lord of puissance pure,


As the chieftain of a warrior,


With spear and sword at the barrier –


As hardy with the hardiest,


He proveth himself, that I say, best


My sovereign lord.


My sovereign lord, in everything,


Above all other – as a king –


In that he doth no comparing:


But, of a truth, he worthiest is,


To have the praise of all the best,


My sovereign lord.


My sovereign lord when that i meet,


His cheerful countenance doth replete,


My heart with joy; that I behete,


Next God, but he: and ever pressed,


With heart and body to love best,


My sovereign lord.


So many virtues, given of grace,


There is none one live that hace –


Behold his favour and his face,


His personage most godliest!


A vengeance of them that loveth not best,


My sovereign lord.


The sovereign lord that is of all,


My sovereign lord save, principal!


He hath my heart and ever shall.


Of God I ask – for him request –


Of all my good fortunes to send him best


My sovereign lord.

Elizabeth’s relationship with the king lasted longer than his other mistresses, nearly six years and her son was the only illegitimate child of Henry’s that he acknowledged – even though it was suspected that the king had many illegitimate children, but surprisingly she wasn’t offered the position of maîtresse en titre (head royal mistress). 


Elizabeth gave birth to Henry Fitzroy on 15th June, 1519, much to the delight of Henry VIII, who had been disappointed that his own wife had not yet given him a son, Katherine’s son who was born in 1511 only lived for 52 days. The birth of Elizabeth’s son was a turning point for the king, it proved he was capable of having a healthy son and the boy’s birth no doubt paved the way to his father’s eventual annulment of his marriage to Katherine. Henry celebrated the boy’s birth by recognizing him and giving him the surname “FitzRoy”, which meant “Son of the King” and not long after, making him the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Somerset and Nottingham. 


The birth of Henry FitzRoy signaled an abrupt end to his parents relationship with some historians stating that Henry believed that babies were meant for wives and not mistresses. It has also been agreed that soon after Elizabeth gave birth that Henry quickly moved onto Arabella Parker, the wife of a London merchant and then his next mistress, Mary Boleyn in 1522. At the time of the king’s new affair, Elizabeth was in Essex and being heavily pregnant and at that point was no competition for Mary.


MARRIED LIFE


After the birth of Elizabeth’s son and her relationship with the king beginning to dwindle, Elizabeth married Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme sometime between 1520 or 1522. Gilbert was the eldest son of George Tailboys and his second wife, Elizabeth Gasgcoigne. Gilbert came to court under the protection of Cardinal Wolsey, after Gilbert’s father had a bout of insanity in March 1517, and later was described by his peers as a lunatic. It’s likely that Elizabeth knew Gilbert during her last couple of years at court and Henry believed this marriage to be a reward to Elizabeth for her services and granted her £200 a year for the rest of her life.


Elizabeth didn’t get on with her formidable mother-in-law, Elizabeth Gasgcoigne, who sought to rule over the Tailboys’ estates. Elizabeth Blount and her husband had other plans though, they wanted to have autonomy over their own affairs, and in 1523 a new act of parliament worked in Elizabeth’s favour, following a petition by Gilbert and his father, Sir George who was incapacitated. The act allowed Elizabeth an unusual degree of power for a woman as she held the Tailboys’ estates in her own name, until her death, instead of it going to her husband, which made her a sort of heiress as Gilbert was able to get title from his family’s land through Elizabeth. It’s believed that Henry granted this act to further provide for Elizabeth as well as preventing her in-laws from taking control, it also allowed Elizabeth to be the prominent female member of the Tailboys family and not her mother-in-law.


The newly married couple settled in Lincolnshire and had three children: Elizabeth (1520), George (1523), Robert (1528) and possibly three stillborns. The stillborns were found in 1805, when the vault containing Gilbert’s tomb was opened and four lead coffins were discovered inside, they contained a fully grown adult and three children, the children’s coffins were all in different sizes, but a great deal smaller than the adult one and since Elizabeth’s two sons by Gilbert died in their teens – George at seventeen and Robert at fourteen, it makes sense that Elizabeth could’ve had more children, especially since one of the children was believed to be around five or six at the time of their death. 
It’s recently been speculated that Elizabeth Tailboys might have been the daughter of Henry VIII, but upon Gilbert’s marriage to the girl’s mother, he took on the role of father and treated Elizabeth Tailboys as his own, but this is just hearsay given that Elizabeth Tailboys was born in 1521 and her mother was believed to have married Gilbert in 1522, but the marriage date could easily have been wrong. 
Elizabeth and Gilbert’s marriage was believed to be a contented one and gave Elizabeth a new social status in life, since her past position as Henry’s mistress could not. Elizabeth for the first time was able to take on the role she had been trained on since childhood: mistress to her own household and estates.

Elizabeth would also accompany her husband to court on many occasions. 
Although, Elizabeth spent most of her time in Lincolnshire, she wasn’t fully cut off from court life and had a genuine friendship with the king through their son. It was noted that on New Years, 1529, that Elizabeth sent a present to Henry and she received one from him in return and 1532, Henry gifted Elizabeth a gilt goblet with a cover, which was the heaviest present of any lady below royal rank, and more expensive than his gift to Mary Boleyn.


Gilbert died on 15th April, 1530 and was buried in Kyme church, where his memorial tablet still exists.


On 23 July 1536, Henry FitzRoy died of tuberculosis and is thought to have been ailing for some time before his death at seventeen. The king was devastated by his son’s death and immediately had the boy buried in a private funeral. 
After Gilbert’s death, Elizabeth married for a second time around 1533 to Edward Fiennes, Baron Clinton, a man twelve years her junior and who would go on to become 1st Earl of Lincoln, after her death. Although, Elizabeth was around thirty-four at time of this marriage, she was still considered young enough to bare more children, which she did by giving him three daughters: Bridget (1536), Catherine (1538) and Margaret (1539). Elizabeth would be the first of Edward’s three wives.


DEATH


Elizabeth found herself back at court in 1540 for sometime, where she was briefly a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of Henry VIII, but due to her own health problems, she left the Queen’s service around the time that the royal marriage was dissolved and didn’t serve Henry’s fifth wife, Katheryn Howard. Elizabeth returned to her husband’s estates, where she died shortly afterwards at the age of forty-two. It’s believed that the cause of her death was consumption, like her oldest son.
Edward Fiennes went on to marry his second wife, Ursula Stourton. He outlived Elizabeth by forty-five years.


SOURCES


The picture above was discovered by Elizabeth Norton when she was researching about Bessie. Bessie is featured as a weeper on her parent’s tomb. 


Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII by Elizabeth Norton.


The Mistresses of Henry VIII by Kelly Hart.


Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman.

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by yourlocalthespianishere

A bunch of random six one shota

Words: 235, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Six - Marlow/Moss

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Other

Characters: Jane Seymour, Jane Grey, Edward VI of England, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, Katherine Howard, Mary Stuart (Reign), Elizabeth I of England, Mary I of England, Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Other Character Tags to Be Added

[dailytudors]

15 June 1519

Birth of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, only acknowledged illegitimate child (at the time of his birth) of Henry VIII, King of England and his mistress Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount

[apho-sappho]

I have just this moment heard that the duke of Richmond died this morning; not a bad thing for the interests of the Princess. She, thank God, is very well, and I think her father's affection for her increases daily.

-Eustace Chapuys on the death of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset and the Earl of Nottingham, in a letter to Charles V