#tudortimes

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

A Tudor Christmas . . Christmas Day in Tudor times was an end to the fasting of Advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas, a time when Tudor people were not allowed to eat eggs, cheese or meat. . ◼ On Christmas Day, the festive celebrations began early with a mass before dawn & then two further masses later in the day. Church congregations held lighted tapers as the genealogy of Christ was sung, & then they went home to enjoy a well-deserved Christmas Day feast. . ◼ Henry VIII was one of the first people to have turkey as part of his Christmas feast, after the bird was introduced into Britain in the 1520s. It soon became a popular meat, but such feasting was only enjoyed by those of high society, & not by the masses. . ◼ The famous Tudor Christmas Pie was a coffin shaped pie crust containing a turkey stuffed with a goose, which was stuffed with a chicken, which was stuffed with a partridge, which was stuffed with a pigeon. If that’s not enough, the pie was often served with hare, game birds & wild fowl. . ◼ The Lord of Misrule was a popular part of Tudor Christmas traditions & involved a commoner playing the “Lord of Misrule” & supervising entertainments, drinking & revelry, &, in general, causing chaos. Henry VII loved the tradition & had a Lord of Misrule & an Abbot of Unreason, & it seems that his son, Henry VIII, enjoyed the tradition too, because not only did he appoint a Lord of Misrule for his own court, but also for Princess Mary’s household in 1525. . ◼ During Edward VI’s reign, the Duke of Northumberland is known to have spent a huge amount of money on the tradition, but neither Mary I or Elizabeth I kept it. . . . #ChristmasDay #Heritage #Tudor #TudorHistory #TudorPeriod #TudorDynasty #HouseofTudor #Feast #Banquet #HenryVII #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #History #Christmas #ChristmasTime #TudorTimes #Tudors #England #Royalty #Britishmonarchy #Thebritishmonarchy (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0p6joFrlz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s1ki3nz10n1s

[emaline5678]

Have been reading Alison Weir’s biography of Elizabeth of York. She was the daughter, sister, niece, wife & mother of kings. Henry VI married her to finally unite the houses of York & Lancaster under the Tudor rose. She faced such terror growing up under the scheming Richard III. I’d like to think she thought of Henry as her white knight who saved her from an awful tyrant. Apparently, they did love each other very much. I wonder how much he thought of Elizabeth as he fought for the throne. For some reason, I picture Adian Quinn as Henry from Looking For Richard. I feel like she’s kind of overlooked - overshadowed by the queens during the War of the Roses & the queens that would marry her son, Henry VIII.

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In History . 24 January 1536 . . King Henry VIII injured in jousting accident . . ◼ On the 24th January 1536, the forty-four year-old King Henry VIII had a serious jousting accident at Greenwich Palace. . ◼ The accident occurred at a tournament at Greenwich Palace when Henry, in full armour, was thrown from his horse, itself armoured, which then fell on top of him. He was unconscious for two hours & was thought at first to have been fatally injured. But, although he recovered, the incident, which ended his jousting career, aggravated serious leg problems which plagued him for the rest of his life. . ◼ Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial Ambassador, reported it in his dispatches, writing:- “On the eve of the Conversion of St. Paul, the King being mounted on a great horse to run at the lists, both fell so heavily that every one thought it a miracle he was not killed, but he sustained no injury." . ◼ Dr Ortiz also recorded the accident in a letter to the Empress:- “The French king said that the king of England had fallen from his horse, & been for two hours without speaking. “La Ana” (Anne Boleyn) was so upset that she miscarried of a son.” (five days after the accident) . ◼ As historian Suzannah Lipscomb points out in her book “1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII”, the combination of speed, the weight of Henry’s armour and possibly the horse, & the blow to his head made it a serious accident, & it is amazing that Henry survived. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #theyear1536 #D24jan #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #HouseofTudor #TudorDynasty #TheTudors #KingofEngland #AnneBoleyn #tournament  #EnglishMonarchy #History #HenryVIIIofEngland #Tudor #Tudortimes #heritage #TheKing #Historic #Art #jousting #joust #horsemanship #England #British #Greenwich #HistoryFacts #hismajesty (at Greenwich) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCOV3JFBfE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e2qabfm5tvbe

[minstrel75itg]

The British World - Ireland and the Tudors. “Revolt, Conquest, and the Seeds of Conflict”. Much of Ireland had been nominally English since the days of #henryii (1133-1189), but by #tudortimes the old colonizing #anglonorman lords of the 12th century had become as Irish as their indigenous counterparts. Both groups enjoyed an existence relatively independent of #england🇬🇧, and the area of the Pale, the easterly region of more coherent English settlement, had shrunk to a small arc around Dublin. After 1485, however, the demands of the #tudor state brought #irish matters to a head. #ukhistory #englandhistory #europeanhistory #ireland🇮🇪 (And my Irish roots come from the Porter seafarers from when Maine was still under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK19GRbrg7F/?igshid=1f06w8ff9c0hw