Amazing Tudor Architectore
This is tudor post and mortar architecture on steroids--I have no idea about the British architect that the picture mentions but the house is A Mazing. I would like to learn more about the history of Tudor architecture and have a post on it in progress.
Bloody Mary
Read a biography of Henry's daughter, Mary I
Lady Jane Grey
Read the tragic biography of england's nine days Queen
Tudor geneology
Click the image to read about Henry's six wives
The cruelty of Henry VIII
Click to read an anecdote out of the tyrant's life
Henry Tudor or VII
Started the ball rolling with a questionable victory in the battlefield over Richard III, who had imprisoned his nephews (the rightful heirs) in the tower and eventually became unpopular. Henry renewed a distant Lancastrian claim (the Red rose vs. the white rose of York in the War of the Roses). But he secured things by marrying Elizabeth of York. Thus his son Henry VIII was both houses' heirs.
Queen Elizabeth I's Coronation
Click to read whether she had Mary Stuart killed?
Six Wives of Henry VIII
From top Left: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, Katherine Parr (or as the saying goes: divorced, beheaded, died; divorced beheaded survived)
Detail from Henry VIII Dynastic portrait
These were symbolic portraits to indicate the figure, Henry VIII, his father (Henry Tudor VII), His mother (Elizabeth of York), and his wife, Jane Seymore. He was only married to Jane a year before she died in childbirth but he had every subsequent portrait painted with her, even using his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, to pose for Jane
About Me
- morganspice
- I am mom of four and would-be writer and thinker. I shouldn't say 'would be,' I have a Master's degree from Stanford in Linguistics. But my current interests are of necessity a bit informal. I am new to the blogosphere--sort of. I here give thanks to my inspirers, my relatives Kate, Stacey, and all the others related or not that have made their private selves public in this forum for web-crawling obsessiveness of us all. I have four blogs and can't figure out how to make the profiles separate without different login information, so I should also mention my wonderful family, my husband Slade, the reason behind any success of our family, and my amazing kids Drake Archer Chase and Sadie, are the reason I did any of this in the first place. I wouldn't think I had anything worth making public without them.
Allegorical Tudor dynastic portrait
