#barnaby fitzpatrick

[sovereignoftruth]

“The French Queen has much more wit and judgment than people think…”

-Barnaby Fitzpatrick in a letter to King Edward VI regarding Queen Catherine, Catherine de’ Medici

[elin-moon]

The Friendship of Edward VI and Barnaby Fitzpatrick

The friendship between these two young boys is quite an interesting one on the account that it can appear to be an unexpected one. Edward was the heir to the English throne, later King in his own right, while Barnaby was the eldest son of an Irish Baron, send over to England as a show of loyalty from his father. One would imagine that two boys from such differing backgrounds and sets of expectations would hardly gravitated towards each other, yet they did. One has to wonder what brought them together.

[sixaus-meaa]

Six The Musical as Messages pt22

(special edition: the Six Kids)

Mary / Liz / Ed / Hank / Mae

[historicconfessions]

[arty-e]

I have finished the video!! I hope you all enjoy this ridiculous thing!

[super-nova5045]

thinking about how edward 6 would sign his letters “tui amantissimus, e. rex” to barnaby

“tui amantissimus” means “your most loved” in latin 😭

[yourdeepestfathoms]

honestly i just want more avian au content with the kids u have such unique portrayals of them!

This isn’t hcs, but a mini fic idea I had so 👀

“Edward, what are you doing? Your dad is gonna get mad!”

“No he won’t. He can’t get mad at me.”

“But still!! We should be outside with the rest of the party! Come onnnnn, I wanna dance!”

“You don’t have to come with me.”

“I KNOW THAT! But I don’t wanna go alone. Too many adults.”

The young prince laughed. He spread his wings and jumped into the air, flapping over to the huge metal bird cage hanging from the ceiling of the great hall. He perched on the edge, hanging onto the thick steel bars for balance, and Barnaby did the same. They both looked in at the Flightless woman inside.

She was an adult, but still looked really young. Her face reminded Edward of a sheep. But a sad sheep, because her eyes were always dark and anguished, shadowed by purplish-red bags, and she never seemed to smile. Her hair was a mess, tangled and matted, and her cheeks were sunken from improper feeding, but Edward still thought she was really pretty. He didn’t even care about the twin fleshy bumps curled out from her back.

Joan looked up when the cage rocked and slowly blinked tired grey eyes at the pair.

“Hi, Joan,” Edward smiled at her brightly.

Joan just stared back at him.

“I brought Barnaby!” Edward presented his butterfly friend with a wave of his wing. “You remember him, don’t you?”

Joan nodded sluggishly. She hugged her arms around her knees and stared forward again.

Edward thought she was so sad because of how boring her cage was. There wasn’t anything in it at all! How was she supposed to entertain herself?

Well, that’s why he was there.

“I brought some things for you,” Edward said, reaching for his satchel.

“What?” Barnaby snapped his head around to him.

Edward ignored him and pulled out a small basket full of food. “I got something for you to eat. There’s fruit and bread and a block do cheese in there. Oh, and pastries! I didn’t know what flavor you liked so I just grabbed all of them.” He beamed at Joan, hoping she’d smile back, but she didn’t. She did, however, exhale a soft breath from her nose that seemed like a laugh, so Edward took it as a win.

“I also got you some water,” Edward pulled out a canteen of water. “A brush and a blanket...” He pulled out a brush and blanket. “Oh, and some books! For you to read!”

“You can read, can’t you?” Barnaby squinted at Joan.

“Don’t be mean.” Edward elbowed him lightly in one of his four arms. He looked back to Joan, smiling softly at her. “Here.”

He slid the satchel through the bars of the cage. Joan stared at it for a long moment before uncurling herself from her fetal position. She moved like her limbs were sticky with molasses, slowing her movements as she crawled over to the bag and peered inside. Then, she looked up and whispered in a hoarse, husky voice, “Thank you.”

Edward beamed. His tail feathers had to be wagging at a million miles a minute. He got a thank you out of her! They were definitely best friends now.

[drop-the-curtain-123]

Hi!! Please tell us why you theorize Edward VI as gay/mlm! Also is that Anne of Cleves from SIX as your profile picture?

hello! sorry for the delay of my answer. first, yes my profile picture is from SIX. And I’m aware that by saying that I lost a lot of “credibility” in the eyes of some people. But OH WELL.

DISCLAIMER: I am NO historian, please don’t hate on me, I just wanted to open the topic because I felt crazy as I was the only one I knew, even after intense research, who theorised that, so yeah. I’m only almost 17 years old and I’m french. Please don’t attack me.

So, long story short, everything ties around Barnaby Fitzpatrick. I feel like I explained a lot of times, but I’m going to use this as my “base answer”.

For background, it’s necessary to remember than Barnaby Fitzpatrick (born in 1535) was an Irish Protestant Baron. And, no offence to Irish people, but Irish-born people weren’t the best considered. Plus Barons are, as far as I know, one of the lowest classes of the nobility. His father actually came to the English court -and converted to Protestantism- when Barnaby was a toddler, let’s say. But I’m derailing.

And so, Barnaby becomes Edward’s whipping boy, and they grow fond of each other.

Unrelated trivia, but actually, Richard Cox admitted that he had beaten both of the kids with his staff.

But let’s move on, I’m sorry I thought that having the foundations of the fact that, really, Barnaby wasn’t made to have such a social-climbing due to his birth conditions were important.

It is also un-forgettable that Edward VI was a very stoic, antipathic individual who cherished only a couple of people, but to a point that makes it stand out since it is “unusual” and even more, Barnaby really IS the maximum of affection that Edward VI ever addressed to anyone - or anything.

And then... Barnaby becomes Employee of the Privy Chamber of Edward, who became king. And, if I remember well, the most prominent one/the leader, and the only one close to the age of Edward (understand: not 25 years old teacher). Which marks their close bond for sure. Edward, who had endured, let’s be honest, a whole load of trauma and has been betrayed by some people in his circles, had immense trust in Barnaby, who remained harmless.

And then despite the bankrupt caused by Henry VIII before him, Edward sends his “dearest companion” to France. And their correspondence is really interesting. Notably this:

“For women, as far as you may, avoid their company. Yet if the French King commands you, you may sometimes dance, so measure be your means.”

Also that, according to a website that I’ll link as soon as I find it again:

In another set of letters, at the end, he notified “Tui amantissimus, E. Rex.” and as far as I am no Latin expert, amant totally means suitor in french, and Barnaby was in... you guessed it. But here I might be pulling strings.

The part about avoiding women proves a very protective side of Edward (FYI Barnaby answered something among the lines of “I’m starting to believe you give me fatherly care rather than a friendly one” to this), but again... It’s a bit ambiguous.

Barnaby comes back rushyly from France on the 8th or 9th of December 1552, and would not quit his dying friend until the end of the latter’s life. Along with a group of other soon-to-be-ex employees of the Privy Chamber that would not quit the monarch.

Now my last argument relies on a question you might have “Where are Barnaby letters?”. Well... They have disappeared. The most common theory is that Mary burnt some of them, since they were in the place that Edward used to live in and that Mary inherited by becoming queen, Barnaby keeping Edward’s. But then... Why would she care? Why taking of her royal time to destroy some Irish 17-years-old letters? Why only some of them?

I’ll probably add on stuff I forgot on the way of writing it on one setting by rebbloging this and adding in, or modifying.

Again, we’ll probably never know for sure. And I know the terminology would’ve been different than our 21th century homoromantic label. But this was a thing I never saw discussed, while people tend to pair Edward (sometimes for little to no reason) with either Jane Dormer or Jane Grey.

Don’t hesitate to add your thoughts! Just be respectful and civil, please. Love on y’all. I’m not against people being reticent at my THEORY, and thinking after looking onto this that it was only a friendship. I’m however kinda meh at people being against the idea only after looking at the title. Stay hydrated too.

HOPE IT MAKES SENSE AAAAAH.