#woodville tag

[richmond-rex]

It has been shown that only a minority of the rebels [in 1483] can be classified as having been narrow Woodville adherents, ex-Lancastrians or self-seekers; the overwhelming majority were former servants and supporters of Edward IV who were now infuriated by Richard's abysmal treatment of the princes. Nor was it a question of 'outs' versus 'ins', because many of the rebels were in service to King Richard, including five yeomen from the royal household. What is evident is a definitive split in the Yorkist establishment, with a minority daring to sacrifice everything to get rid of Richard.

— Philip Edwards, 'The Restored Monarchy, 1461-1509: Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII' | The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660

[threesonsofyorks]

The White Queen — Episode one 'In Love With the King'

[wonder-worker]

Anne B*leyn stans challenge: Try to defend your fav without unnecessarily bringing in and saying the most sexist shit imaginable about other historical women

[eve-to-adam]

Of all the existing games on earth and even beyond it, I cannot refuse to participate in one about music. Thank you @richmond-rex for tagging me to make a playlist based on my username!

Ever since I met you - Die together in venus / Empty - Love and Death Verlorene Tage - Wavvyboi / Vertigo - Bridge to Grace Exhilerate - SAGE / Elle se répète froidement - CELESTE | The world might have seen better days - Siamese / Template - grcz Old habits - SAGA / Ominous - The Gazette | Apollo I: The Writing Writter - Coheed and Cambria / Accelerator - BlazinG Dangerous - Ethan Rose / Dead to me - HAARPER Anxiety - Palaye Royale / Airborne - LVTE BLOOMER My demons - Lacuna Coil / Mercy - Bad Omens

This is one of the moments when I regret not having a longer username, haha. I put two songs in each section - (what?, there's no rule against it) - because I couldn't decide.

I invite the following people to this game: @teodoraioana221 and her twin @teo-s-ghostly-corner, @theladyelizabeth, @foreverinthepagesofhistory and @pepperedectoplasm.

Participation is up to everyone. You can ignore this message if you want. (If there are people who want to participate and still haven't been tagged, they are free to do so! ^.^ )

[lady-corrine]

The thing with Ricardians is that (beside their obvious parasocial relationship with a dead monarch and their approach to history in bad faith), they more often than not do Richard such a disservice it's... almost hilarious? They take everything that was interesting about the historical man (the socio-political context he lived in, his intelligence, his ambitions, his ruthless side etc.) and make him into this angel-pure snowflake-victim who never took a decision of his own that would make Richard himself cringe so bad, it's... hysterical.

[welldonebeca]

For a man with six wives in Tudor England, I'm surprised King Henry VIII never married a woman named Mary or Elizabeth. And yes, I know those were his daughters' names, but hear me out.

There were 3 Katherines (which makes me think John Green took some inspiration from him to write An Abundance of Katherines), two Annes (admittedly, Ine was technically an Anna) and one Jane, but not a single Mary or Elizabeth in the era where pretty much every woman was either named Mary or Elizabeth.

Instead, for Mary he had a sister (Queen of France), a mistress (Boleyn) and a daughter (Queen of England), and Elizabeth came to be the name of his grandmother (Woodville), mother (York), deceased sister (Tudor, 1492-95), mother in law (Boleyn, nee Howard) and second daughter (Queen of England).

But he never married a Mary or an Elizabeth. Maybe it was weird in his brain to bed someone with such a familiar name? Who knows.

[nostalgia-tblr]

I realised that the 10k words that I currently have is likely a much smaller fraction of the hypothetical completed work than I thought it was going to be and I told myself I shouldn't take anything out because it all seems to be fitting together fairly neatly BUT I am def starting to have my doubts about the value of "the scene where the two male characters discuss whether the female character (who is not in this scene) should be breastfeeding the baby that she just had with one of those men (but she's been passing it off as the other one's)" because WTF that sounds AWFUL and I think I only put it in there because I was all YAY I'M JUST GONNA WRITE ABOUT MEDIEVAL QUEENS (KIND OF!!!) and there was that whole Thing in monarchies where you have to get a wetnurse in because breastfeeding reduces fertility and your shitty husband needs AT LEAST another couple of boys what with infant mortality being what it was in them days. And for some reason (probably sleep-deprivation TBQH) I at some point thought that it wouid be a good thing to put into an MCU fic???

[ladiesoftheages]

I just got this new shirt today and it just made me think about Anne and all the other powerful women throughout history who were accused of witchcraft or other such things just because people hate to see a girlboss winning

🥂

[salsedine]

10 characters, 10 fandoms

Tagged by the lovely @greypetrel - so here we go! Thanks :*

Everything is under the 'read more' after the first one because I don't want to clog other people's dashes.

Aaand I tag @birdkeeperklink & @pyritefes2 here, so they don't have to scroll down the whole list to understand why and where they are tagged :P as usual, no pressure at all!

1.Stephen Black (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)

Incredibly well written and compelling (Mrs Clarke, teach me your secrets) in the book, and great acting by Aryion Bakare in the show. Probably one of my favourite male characters ever.

2.Lucrezia Borgia (Borgia: faith and fear)

I loved her character's arc through the 3 seasons. It really showcases the thing I love most about this serie, despite its flaws (and some are big flaws) - it never shied away from complexity. All characters are shown as capable of great tenderness and great cruelty - and this is one of the reasons why I think that they really captured the spirit of the renaissance.

3.James Flint (Black Sails)

"I was unjustly branded as a monster in the eyes of the so-called civilized society, so I'm going to destroy it" - what's not to love? And yes, of course I'm obsessed with the "freedom in the darkness" speech, of course.

4.Justice (Dragon Age)

"A world so full of beauty that beauty goes overlooked. I must see it with different eyes."

I couldn't find a gif, ops! Put my favourite quote instead. Initially I was really torn between Merrill and Anders and other five characters, but I'm in an AwakeningTM mood so I've picked my favourite rotting corpse.

5.Mr Nancy / Anansi (American Gods)

^^^ favourite scene/quote, no questions.

6.Jacquette/Jacquetta Woodville (The White Queen)

"We are all on fortune's wheel," I say. "Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.”

Look at that Burgundy-inspired fashion!! The witchcraft and prophecies and definitely less accurate, but eh- that's still my thing. Also, a novel about her story (The Lady of Rivers) is the only book by Philippa Gregory that I didn't dislike, and that's truly something.

7.Uinen - Silmarillion

I have a soft spot for sea-themed mythology, so I obviously loved that section of the Silmarillion.

8.Hastur (Good Omens)

#team-Hell, because I like the demons' character design. Also, for some reason Ned Dennehy follows me on Instagram, so I feel like he deserves a mention.

9.Thomas Cromwell (Wolf Hall)

I have developed a love/hate relationship with this book&show - but Mantel's prose is stunning.

"It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."

Do you see this? Annoyingly good.

10.Morgan le Fay - Camelot

I feel like this show had a lot of potential that it never got to fully express, and Eva Green as Morgana? Inspired casting, 10/10.

[noellehenry-original]

Won’t Let You Down by noellehenry

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: One Direction (Band) Relationship: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Anne Twist, Gemma Styles, Geoff Payne, James Corden, Mitch Rowland, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: American Country - AU, Title from a Country Song, Tennessee - Freeform, B&B, Lots of mentions of an alcoholic drink, Alternate Universe - Small Town, Fire, Mentions of a dead great aunt, illegal trading of unlabeled bottles, Friends to Lovers, Louis is Gemma’s best friend, Town Fire, No casualties!, Humour Words: 15872 Chapters: 6

Originally published on 5 November 2021

Summary:

Woodville is a sleepy small town in Tennessee where nothing much ever happens, that is until Harry’s great-aunt Lucille passes away. In a matter of weeks Harry’s world turns upside down. Suddenly he’s the owner of a farm and B&B, gets involved in illegal trading of unlabeled bottles and has to deal with his everlasting crush on his sister Gemma’s best friend, who has returned to Woodville…

written for the @1dcountryfest  

[neomedievalist]

tagged by NO ONE i just wanted to do it

currently reading: just finished all 4 white woman books i had to read for school (latest being the kingmaker's daughter.)...when i have free time im gonna get back to crime and punishment

last song: i am currently listening to the disco elysium soundtrack so. the credits theme

currently watching: i was watching hannibal for a bit and then kinda stopped

fic i'm currently reading: girl ill be honest its porn its all porn. when my friends finally finish their wips then ill read those. stares at you

next on my watchlist: i dont watch things. do weekly secret life episodes count

current obsession: anthony woodville 2nd earl rivers. and i keep getting distracted from researching him by researching medieval female saints. i really never thought id get to a point in my uni career that im doing shit like this. and to instantly lose all of my credibility and pretentiousness for anyone reading this, the minecraft youtube interest is coming back big time.

i tag EVERYONE <3

[richmond-rex]

It is not generally known that William Caxton sued for pardon following the abortive gentry rebellion against the Crown in October 1483 [...] Caxton's pardon of 1484 invites a reappraisal of his career. It sheds light on his activity as a mercer and diplomat, his close connections with power and patronage and his own vulnerability, through his ties with the Woodvilles, during a period of upheaval. While the death of Rivers and the ensuing events saw Caxton lose valuable custom, after Richard's death he again secured royal and noble patronage which increased the press's output. In a political context Caxton's complicity in the rebellion of 1483 should not be ruled out. In view of his position at Westminster it would be naive to assume that he could have been wholly unaware of the revolt. While there is no evidence to suggest that Caxton was actively involved in sedition, nonetheless his patronage during the period focuses attention on the nature of his publications.

— Louise Gill, William Caxton and the Rebellion of 1483 | The English Historical Review

Like Blanchardin and Eglantine, others of Caxton's works from the period reflect the same milieu and emphasize intrigue, corruption and the politics of disaffection, which mirror in some measure the interests of the market. Knight of the Tower, which he dedicated to Elizabeth Woodville, draws attention to the sequence of events set in train by Richard and has clear parallels with the dynastic manoeuvre which united the houses of York and Lancaster. Curial, translated by Caxton at the request of Rivers and published after Richard III's accession, might also be said to offer commentary on the politics of the period. From the late fourteenth century, its theme deals with court and country, courtier and gentleman; the one, debased and superficial, the other depicting the 'true and rightful life'. Significantly, it left the press when the household was in disarray, with many of Edward IV's own courtiers and servants in exile abroad or at home. Dedicated to Richard III and commissioned by a squire, the Order of Chivalry, a declamatory work calling for the restoration of knightly duties and virtues, is perhaps another interesting choice in the context of the times.

[sirgawin]

starting my own tag game bc fun !

your favourite people in history (doesn't have to be 9!!!)

aetheflaed, elizabeth woodville, mary shelley, elizabeth i, anne lister, thomas cromwell, william shakespeare, anne boleyn, empress matilda

tagging @iskarieot @macbethwitches @secretceremonial @flowergrenades @userabby @valyrianpoem

[wonder-worker]

I heard that Edward IV and Elizabeth Widvile were known to be very beautiful. Were there any reports on their appearance at the time?

anon 😂

But yes, contemporaries and post contemporaries in the 16th century were pretty much unanimous in praising their appearance. I'll list some of the ones I could find:

Elizabeth:

'The most beautiful woman in England' ('la plus belle fille d'Engleterre') - Jean de Waurin

'Her very great beauty' ('sa tres grande beaute') - Jean de Waurin

"Her beauty of person and charm of manner" - Dominic Mancini

"None of such constant womanhood, wisdom and beauty" - Hearne's Fragment; its author was one of Edward IV's servants

"A daughter of prodigious beauty' - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"Both faire, of a good favor, moderate of stature, well made and very wise" - Thomas More

Edward IV:

"The beauty of your personage it hath pleased Almighty God to send you" - James Strangways, Speaker of the Commons in Parliament

"The king is a handsome upstanding man" - Gabriel Tretzel, travels of Leo of Rozmital

"A handsome prince and had style" - Oliver De La Marche

"In the flower of his age, tall of stature, elegant of person" - Croyland Chronicle

"One of the handsomest knights of his kingdom" - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"A handsome and worthy prince" - Pietro Alipranto

‘...Tall and strapping as the king’ - John Paston, Paston Letters

"He was young and more handsome than any man then alive" - Philippe de Commynes

"A man so vigorous and handsome that he might have been made for the pleasures of the flesh" - Philippe de Commynes

"The handsomest prince my eyes ever beheld" and "I don't remember ever having seen a man more handsome than he was" - Philippe de Commynes

"A very handsome prince" - Louis XI, from the Memoirs of Commynes

"He being a person of most elegant appearance, and remarkable beyond all others for the attractions of his person" - the Croyland Chronicle, referencing Edward a few months before he died

"He seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature more protractedly and more evidently to onlookers" - Dominic Mancini, writing shortly after his death

"He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold...of visage lovely, of body mighty, strong and cleanly made; howbeit in his latter days, with an over liberal diet, somewhat corpulent, but nevertheless noy uncomely" - Thomas More

Etc.

I'm tagging @edwardslovelyelizabeth because I think you got a similar ask?

I hope this answers your question, anon! I don't generally pay a lot of attention to the physical appearance of historical figures (I find it pretty irrelevant), but in this case, it ultimately does play a role in both Edward IV and Elizabeth's historiographies for better and for worse, and seems to have actually been a personal prop of Edward's kingship, so I don't mind discussing it :)

[eve-to-adam]

Tagged by @theladyelizabeth to do these fics/stories asks. <3333 Thank you for giving me the chance to express some of my thoughts! :D

How many works do you have?

I have written many stories over the years. As a child, I wrote stories that I illustrated a bit clumsily, but it was fun to create characters and fantasy stories. Now I have two official works - the story I'm writing now, about Cecily Neville. I have one more that needs to be completely rewritten, about Elizabeth Woodville.

2. What fandoms do you write for?

My stories focus specifically on the medieval era, especially the events that take place in the Wars of the Roses.

3. What are your top 5 stories by kudos?

I haven't written enough stories to have a top 5, but if I were to make a list of stories I want to write in the near or distant future, they would be the following: 1. Proud Cis, which I am currently writing. 2. Elizabeth, a story that I should rewrite in the future. 3. A possible story about Anne of Burgundy, because I adore her and Bedford (they already appear in Proud Cis, so something from their perspective would be interesting to me.) 4. A story about Elizabeth of York, because why not? 5. Maybe a story about Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I will definitely answer! As in the case of my illustrations, I want to respond to each person because I want to show my gratitude for the interest and the beautiful words that are offered to me. If I didn't reply to someone, it was because I didn't know about the comment's existence for various reasons (I didn't notice it/I didn't receive a notification, etc.) If it happens that I don't reply, I don't do it intentionally.

5. What’s the story you wrote with the angtiest ending?

Unfortunately, I never finished any story I wrote, no matter how long or short it turned out to be, so I have no way of knowing what ending I would choose.

6. What’s the story you wrote with the happiest ending?

See the answer to question number 5.

7. Do you get hate on stories?

I had two works posted on Wattpad at one time, but I never received hateful comments. Criticism, yes, but not offensive messages. It seems I was lucky. The strangest comment I got on the Elizabeth Woodville's story - which I find funny to a certain extent - was something about Constantinople.

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes and no. I have nothing against explicit content in stories, and although I have some degree of intimacy exposed in my stories, smut is not exactly a detail I want in them. I say this because this aspect does not suit me. I don't know how to write them properly, so I don't do it. But I like to create intimate/romantic scenes that contain more explicit details, without necessarily being integrated into the erotic area.

9. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Yes, I have only one story that fits into this category. It's the first time I do something like this. The story is still in its early stages, because I, together with my friend @teodoraioana221, are trying to arrange the pieces of the puzzle in order to create an enchanting story. The funniest thing is that this whole project started from a simple Sims game, in which we decided to create a story for our characters. A totally innocent thing. It is amazing that from such a tiny detail we have been able to create connections and contexts for our characters, most of them appearing only after we decided on a part of the action. Of course, it is a story that we want to write in the form of a book - webnovel -, which we want to illustrate together. The story would to some extent fall into historical fiction, because we are documenting details - such as food, customs, activities, mentality, fashion, etc. - starting from the end of the Victorian era, passing through WWI-WWII and up to in our present, which means approximately three generations. Yes, we have a pretty extensive family tree and I don't think it will stop there, which makes me excited, haha.

10. Have you ever had a story stolen?

No, but I had a comic stolen with a story I created - "The Queen of the Sun in Splendour". It counts?

11. Have you ever had a story translated?

Again, I don't know if it counts. But a mini-comic that I made with Edward IV and George of Clarence. Comic that was translated without my permission, apparently by a person from China.

12. Have you ever co-written a story before?

No. But I do it now. You can find the answer on question number 9.

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

An interesting question. In the beginning, when I barely knew details about the Wars of the Roses, I was obsessed with the Elizabeth WoodvillexEdward IV. At that moment, for me, nothing else mattered except them. My obsession was so great that anyone else didn't matter. I used to dislike Cecily Neville for her apparent refusal to accept Elizabeth. Can you believe it? And now I'm writing a book about her! Can you believe it??? I think this would be my answer: ElizabethxEdward and CecilyxRichard. I can't choose between them, sorry not sorry.

14. What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Many of my stories are wips that will never be finished. However, I try not to repeat the mistakes of the past and I strive so that the works of the present never end up like those wips. But I am unpredictable. I am my own enemy.

15.What are your writing strenghts?

I have the impression that I know how to combine facts with reality. I have always tried to make sure that the story I write is 85% accurate. Of course, this percentage can fluctuate, depending on who is reading, I guess. It's possible that I don't know some details because I don't have access to them or maybe simply a context needed to be changed to fit the plot. I think I'm good at describing things. I try not to have boring dialogues - but, again, it depends on who is reading.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

I think that the entire platform is not enough for me to list them all (I am very critical of myself, yes). So I'll pick a few: One of them would be my inability to always have as rich a vocabulary as I would like. Another weakness would be the way I place the action (sometimes I have the impression that the scene I'm writing shouldn't be the way it is because I'm afraid of giving my characters that omniscient aura. Or I just feel that it doesn't work for the scene to proceed like this because maybe it doesn't seem natural enough.) Also, I'm afraid that some scenes are not in line with the character's personality, but I like them too much to get rid of them. The list can go on and on and on... Lucky for me that I have friends – Teo, Nico & Co. – who share their opinions about my stories and talk to me, listen to me and remove my insecurities, preventing me from killing myself with a pen, lololol.

17. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a story?

Yes, as long as the sentences are not too long. I wrote some in Proud Cis, a short exchange of lines in French, for which I had the help of a friend of mine, Sebastian. I don't trust Google Translate and I'm too afraid that I'll embarrass myself if I write nonsense because I trusted it. Better be safe than sorry.

18. First fandom you wrote for?

Wars of the Roses.

19. Favourite story you’ve ever written?

Definitely Proud Cis. Not only is it the longest official story written so far, but it is also the one in which I put the most effort. Through this project I tried to discover Cecily and at the same time to explore medieval life and mentality. I didn't want a generic story, in which the action takes place at a superficial contextual level. I want to explore more, to understand, to feel. I love to document myself about activities, places, customs, foods, art, traditions, etc. I have read many books in which all these were overlooked or explored in a superficial way because the authors want to focus on the characters or the political situation. But my personal opinion is that all these details are part of the character's component, they are one with them: these details represent the character. I like to imagine scenarios about small things in their lives and expose them with the help of fiction. Sure, for some it might seem boring, but I want to give these details the chance to shine through Cecily and the people around her.

I will tag: @teodoraioana221, @richmond-rex

Participation is up to everyone.

[demonofyork]

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Ship Tags:

Richard x Henry

Richard x Anne

Richard x Catesby

Richard x Buckingham

Silly tags:

Richardcore- Silly posts that remind me of Richard

Buckinghamcore- Silly posts that remind me of Buckingham

Amoeba.- Baby Richard/Anne looking like single-celled organisms

He has 97 Mental Illnesses- Richard insane and fucked up compilation

Thank you