edmundtudor

upon reflection, it seems my favourite historical figures are queens or queens-adjacent who had a really troubled life in as much as a sixteenth century aristocrat could. ~margaret beaufort, katherine of aragon, mary i of england~

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

medieval people in movies: We wear grey and brown only.

medieval people in real life: I think this giant scarlet hat pairs beautifully with my eye-searing blue-and-gold houppelande!

[iambe-heqit]

I always love the whole “MORE IS MORE” general medieval aesthetic - dye everything the brightest colors you can afford, and if there’s room for some gold, GOOD

[edmundtudor]

I went insane years ago trying to track down this image. I don't even remember where I got it from but I just wanted it again for something and had to go to a Canva project I was using it for so I thought I would post it here for any fellow 15th-16th century English royal freaks who may need it.

Idk much about heraldry, but as I understand it, a daughter would use her father's coat of arms in a diamond shape (lozenge) until she was married, so this would presumably have been used by daughters of an English monarch between 1406 and 1603. But again I don't know much about heraldry so please correct me if I am completely off the mark!

[mapsontheweb]

Monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

[courtjester69420]

this fan fiction shit easy

[cloudflycat]

Jane Seymour: Oh the holy mother

commission art

not drawn by me.

[bookshopcrow]

Tudor History Disabled and LGBTQIA+ Pride Print | Laura Crow

This A5 mini print features a black ink linocut style illustration of two Tudor courtiers waving LGBTQIA+ and Disability Pride flags, along

I drew these last year for the initial sharing of VILE (the new play we're developing about Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford) but I realised I never shared them myself and now feels like an apt time to try and remember people have always been different and diverse throughout history.

I've added in the Disability Pride flag and Neurodivergent Pride flag, alongside the LGBTQIA+ flags that I drew last year 🖤

✨️ They're available as prints on my website and in my Etsy shop ✨️

I think I want to do a series of these flag drawings from different eras (Victorians, Georgians, Medieval etc) to go alongside this Tudor style one.

[divineandmajesticinone]

Olly Rix as Edward Stafford inThe Spanish Princess (2x01)

“Do not fret, my lady. I can still admire you with my left eye.”

[roberttingle]

annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦‍♀️

[elvensilk]

like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards

put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god

[branloaf]

a part of me wants to be understanding of the teenagers clinging to crap like character.ai and chatgpt for their fave fictional characters because I know that I absolutely would have done the same at that age, but at the same time, when I was 14 I was planning out and writing fanfiction by hand because I had no smartphone and daily computer limits so maybe these teens just need reduced screen time and a pen and paper...

[branloaf]

half of the "fic ideas" were just me coming up with practically identical Tudor-era AUs where the Queens were almost constantly pregnant and had a disgusting number of children but at least ☝️ it all came from my own brain 🤓👈

[apolladay]

When writing fiction set in the past, do you worry about the accuracy of some of the words you use, especially in dialogues?

Yes, people in the past wouldn't know that or that word

Only sometimes

No, my story is for 21th century readers, I'll use today's words

Nuance

Results

I'm in the middle of writing a story set around 1850. And wanted to use the word "sibling". And apparently the first record for it is 1903... meaning even if I can use it in narration, my characters wouldn't know of it in dialogues 🙃

When writing fiction set in the past, do you worry about the accuracy of some of the words you use, especially in dialogues?

Yes, people in the past wouldn't know that or that word

Only sometimes

No, my story is for 21th century readers, I'll use today's words

Nuance

Results

Voting ended onDec 29, 2025

I'm in the middle of writing a story set around 1850. And wanted to use the word "sibling". And apparently the first record for it is 1903... meaning even if I can use it in narration, my characters wouldn't know of it in dialogues 🙃

[thomascromwelll-deactivated2025]

Happy Birthday, Queen!!!

18 february of 1516 — The Birthday of Queen Mary I of England

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Do you call your historical blorbo by a nickname?

Yes, one they actually used during their life.

Yes, it's one I made up.

Only sometimes (eg talking to friends, in your own head, etc.)

No, I use their full name.

No, I use their full name and titles.

Other/Nuanced/I don't have a historical blorbo and I'm observing the rest of you

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2025

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

The majority of votes being for not having a historical blorbo tells me that this has not reached the target audience.

I'm going to start pspsps-ing at the people who call Empress Elisabeth "Sisi" and everyone who calls Friedrich II of Prussia "Fritz." I know you're out there!

[mephostophilis]

hey um i’ve got some bad news. we mulled your boyfriend. he fell in the wine and we mulled him. yeah with the cinnamon sticks.

[missdreamfyre]

becoming elizabeth as a show is so funny because it's one of the few shows that's at it's most interesting when it's not on it's title character every scene with mary and edward is electric then elizabeth shows up and it becomes woefully drab which is strange because i'd argue these are some of the most fascinating parts of elizabeths life and ripe for drama but alas.

[jaehaeryshater]

England’s Pearl and Their Beloved Queen

Mary I and Katherine of Aragon by @francy-sketches

Guys. I have not been so excited for a commission in my life. I know it’s not ASOIAF so definitely not as anticipated among my friends, but it’s just so well done. I adore Katherine and Mary and this turned out so beautifully. I cannot sing Francy’s praises high enough; after the initial reference pictures I sent her, I did not need to correct anything at all, she completely got the vision.

As anyone who has ever encountered me before will have known, I am incredibly particular about commissions and therefore very involved. I usually like to give pieces I pay for extra thought and historical authenticity. For this piece, I went and looked for available quotes and contemporary accounts of Katherine’s fashion choices. I wanted to make sure from the base of the dress (the farthingale underneath) to the jewelry were all as accurate as was reasonably possible. I did even learn a thing or two, despite my initial intention of just checking to make sure everything I had previously believed was true. For example, I learned that Katherine sometimes wore a flemish hood, which I wouldn’t have thought that would align with her fashion sense; I was proven wrong. I have seen practically all the artworks available to the public that have been confirmed to be Katherine, so I had already guessed black was her favorite color to wear. But I did learn that her other favorites were purple and red. I decided to keep it simple with the black. It’s elegant and regal, black was an expensive color but still is not obnoxiously ostentatious. The jewels around her neckline as taken directly from portraits of her. The pearls seem a mainstay for her, but I did learn that her dresses had many other colored jewels tied into them. I just thought black looked the best. Her dresses were fur-lined, although I would definitely say we took some liberties on what the fur looked. The fur she wore was pretty much exclusively ermine. The sleeves also have true gold, which Spanish royalty traditionally loved (for hundreds of years, by this point, at least). Katherine’s Spanish outfits, of which she had many, definitely collected dust in favor of more traditional English outfits. There’s no indication that she was forced into this, as she did sometimes dress in the Spanish style when it struck her fancy, but it was important for her to present herself as English with English loyalties and priorities in mind. That being said, something as innocuous as gold embroidery, which was not completely foreign to the English court, was definitely something she could implement from back home without seeming like a foreigner. I have pomegranate embroidery on her sleeves, which is more of symbolism rather than something accurate. There’s no proof she ever wore pomegranate embroidery on her sleeve, but her official symbol was of a pomegranate, so I figure that was something important to her.

Katherine’s necklace is obviously a direct copy of the necklace she wears in several of the contemporary artworks depicting. This is pure speculation, but I personally believe that this necklace could have come from old English jewels that had been melted down and repurposed for her. Generally, people weren’t as sentimental in the same way we are today, nor worried about these aspects of preservation, so jewels were melted down and used for other purposes all the time. She also usually wore many strings of pearls, but it just would have looked like too much and would take away from the piece overall, so we decided just to do the necklace. Her gabled hood is also directly taken from her contemporary portraits, the gold and black with the red jewels was what she usually wore. She has a girdle belt with a long string of pearls. Sometimes she would wear a cross at the end or some black jewels that matched her necklace. What’s depicted in this is actually a pomander that turns into a rudimentary clock when it is opened. Katherine is recorded as having one of these; I thought that was very cool. I also asked for her to have some rings. She did have a wedding ring, but I found no description of it, so the artist just did basic gold. She’s wearing two which I think is pretty funny considering she was married twice, of course she wouldn’t have worn two wedding rings, but imagine if she did have the audacity to. Katherine had so much jewelry, more than any of Henry VIII’s wives. She had the royal collection available to her, pieces from Spain, and gifts from Henry specifically made for her. She usually decked herself out as expensively as possible.

Unfortunately, there is basically no information on how Mary dressed as a child. We know her mother dressed her and was having the clothes ordered herself, but beyond that, there’s really nothing available that I could find. I felt that Mary would be dressed similarly to her mother, but I wanted to give her a purple dress because purple fabric was generally the most expensive thing you could buy. I wanted to illustrate how loved and well taken care of she was. She has matching rings with her mother, but no girdle belt or necklace because I’m envisioning her as being 6-9 in this, so I wanted to give her something she could play in. She’s wearing a French hood. Katherine ordered her one in 1520, when she was four. My references on how hers should look is from portraits of her aunts Mary and Juana. I felt that Katherine would probably want to buy a style she was familiar with. Mary’s embroidery is of the Tudor rose. It turned out so beautifully. Similarly to Katherine, there’s no evidence that she actually wore that embroidery, but I wanted some symbolism in there.

My intention with this piece was to show the closeness between Katherine and Mary. Katherine loved Mary with all her heart and showed no outward indication of disappointment that Mary was a girl. She spent more time with Mary than any other highborn individual in this time period that I know of. I wanted to show that Katherine is someone that Mary deeply and completely trusted, even when court could be over the top and crowded, frightening for a child. I feel as if people other themselves from people in the past. People often feel as if people 500 years ago did not care as deeply about their children or weren’t attached to them. I believe this is true in some instances, but generally we are more like the people of the past than we like the believe. As far as any research I’ve done has shown, Katherine loved Mary as much as any mother of our time loves her children.

I believe Francy did a beautiful job, so all compliments go to her, I hope everyone checks out her page to see her amazing work. The caliber of this is unlike the commissions I’ve done in the past. I cannot thank her enough.

I hope this ended up being relatively historically accurate, I’m sure someone will let me know if it’s not haha.

[moradometalizado]

Catherine & Henry in Isabel 3x10

[marthajefferson]

The first recorded fireworks in England were at the wedding of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York on january 18, 1486. Fireworks gained popularity during the reign of Henry VIII, and by Elizabethan times there was a fireworks master. Queen Elizabeth I created this post so that someone would be in charge of organising firework displays for great occasions. James II even knighted his fireworks master after a particularly excellent show of fireworks at his coronation. (x)

 [ luke evans & sarah gadon as henry vii & elizabeth of york ]