this falcon white,

medievalist – byzantist – tudors. di. all questions welcomed.

[edwardseymour]

katherine parr just know i would beat thomas seymour to death with hammers all you have to do is ask

[maceofpentacles]

what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?

mine are the tower and the chariot

[katharinepar]

Alas I don’t think anybody has mothered harder than Maria Doyle Kennedy in the Tudors… she is mother

[kathrynhoward]

MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY as CATHERINE OF ARAGON THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010)

[divorcedwife]

people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

[edwardseymour]

(from lucy wooding’s lrb review of hunting the falcon)

[ymabdarogan]

Take Me Back to the Night We Met

Maria de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, had died in 1539 and had stayed loyal to her mistress, Katherine of Aragon, throughout her married life and widowhood. Indeed, when Katherine was reported to be dying at Kimbolton Castle, Maria applied for a license to visit her ailing mistress, but was refused by Sir Thomas Cromwell, the King’s chief minister at the time. Despite this setback, Maria set out from London to visit Katherine at the beginning of January 1536 and contrived to get herself admitted by Sir Edmund Bedingfield by claiming a fall from her horse meant she could travel no further. According to Sarah Morris and Nathalie Grueninger, Katherine and Maria spent hours talking in their native Castilian; the former queen died in Maria’s arms on 7th January 1536. (x)

[edwardseymour]

katherine howard, oatlands palace (28th july 1540)

“an orchard, its mature trees groaning under the weight of fruit, offered shade to the heads of courtiers and servants, as they endured the stifling heat. the trees were old, but the orchard was not. they had been uprooted from st peter’s abbey at nearby chertsey, a nine-century-old monastery founded by saint erkenwald, [...] and brought to grace the king’s gardens when the abbey was shut down [...] the stones that built the little palace’s extension had come from the augustinian priory at tandridge as it was pulled down to make way for aristocratic demesnes. the price paid by many of his subjects for the king’s religious revolution weighed heavily and silently on oatlands, but as thick carpets from the ottoman empire, chairs upholstered in velvets and cloth of gold, gilt cups, bejewelled table services, and beds hung with cloth of silver were all processed into oatlands, there was little outward sign of the stresses and tribulation that had gone into making it suitable for the royal household.” (gareth russell, young and damned and fair)

[casgirl]

The king’s nefarious vizier won’t see your posts but your friend who schemes and simpers will.

[richmond-rex]

Reliquary Bust of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (workshop of Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden, c. 1465)

Portrait of Elizabeth of York (unknown artist, late 16th century based on a work c. 1500)

Reliquary Bust of Saint Balbina (unknown artist, c. 1520–30)

[richmond-rex]

By scheduling Elizabeth of York’s crowning to take place on the feast day of Saint Katherine of Alexandria rather than on any of the Marian feast days most commonly associated with the role of queens as mothers, Henry VII sent a unique message to the world about the nature of his queen and consort: royal birth and beauty, wisdom and chastity.

Kim M. Phillips, “Maidenhood as the Perfect Age of Woman’s Life” Young Medieval Women (1999); The Most Pleasant Song of the Lady Bessy (c. 1500); Henry VII in correspondence with Pope Innocent VIII (1485); Katherine J. Lewis, “Model Girls? Virgin-Martyrs and the Training of Young Women in Late Medieval England” Young Medieval Women (1999)

[richmond-rex]

This is distilled at the beginning of Book XXIV in Vergil’s brief description of Elizabeth after the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where he gives her a short speech invoking virgin martyrdom: “I will rather suffer all the torments which St. Catherine is said to have endured for the love of Christ than be united with a man who is the enemy of my family.” This explicit reference appears only in the 1513 manuscript, perhaps excised in response to anti-Catholic sentiment in the 1530s, but the general idea persists […] Although the references to Saint Catherine are unsurprisingly absent, the fact that Hall describes Elizabeth as “that vertuous & immaculate virgin” preserved from Richard’s desire by “God of hys only goodnes” immediately embeds her into a virgin martyr narrative, just as Vergil does.

Kavita M. Finn, The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440–1627 (2012) 

[jezabelofthenorth]

Dual portraits of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York dated circa 1530

Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection

[dailyborgia]

BORGIA (2011 - 2014) — 1.02 "Ondata di calore" ISOLDA DYCHAUK as LUCREZIA BORGIA

[maryboullan]

Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn The Tudors (2007-2010)

[fjdjdjsiakwnngwd-deactivated202]

Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon, as depicted in:

A choirbook by the workshop of Petrus Alamire, commissioned by Emperor Maximilian, c.1510s.

An epistle-lectionary by the Horenbout workshop, made for Cardinal Wolsey, c.1528.

[edwardseymour]

kinda wild that edward seymour was given a name that means ‘patriarch’, while thomas seymour was given a name that means ‘spare’, given how their biographies play out

[edwardseymour]

[frogmoss1]

i need BOYS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hajskaeg]

[frogmoss1]

Who’s your bear friend. Hii.