Devotional Reading in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-128
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Devotional Reading

III.—The Roof-bosses in St. George's Chapel, Windsor

Archaeologia ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. P. Cave ◽  
H. Stanford London
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Henry Vii

St. George's Chapel as it now stands was begun in the reign of Edward IV and finished in that of Henry VIII. It took the place of an earlier chapel. St. John Hope considered that the first part of the chapel to be vaulted was the north aisle of the choir ‘because one of the keys or bosses bears the arms of Thomas Fitzalan as Lord Maltravers, which dignity he held from 1461 until he succeeded to the earldom of Arundel in 1487, while another has the arms of William Lord Hastings who was beheaded in 1483'. But these arguments are of no weight. The Hastings boss may be posthumous like the Bray heraldry in the nave, whilst the arms on the Fitzalan boss are those of the head of the house, perhaps William, the 9th earl of Arundel (K.G. 1471, died 1487), but more probably his son Thomas, the 10th earl (K.G. 1474, died 1524). They cannot be Thomas's arms ‘as Lord Maltravers' for so long as his father was alive he must have differenced those arms in some way, and in fact at least two contemporary manuscripts show that he added to his paternal arms a silver label, then as now a common difference for the eldest son.2 Hope also says that ‘the greater part of the vault of the south aisle of the quire was put up in the time of Henry VII and probably before 1502, since one of the keys has the arms of Arthur Prince of Wales who died in April of that year'. Here, too, Hope is mistaken. The arms may just as well be those of Henry VIII as prince of Wales; he was so created on 18th February 1503, and would have taken the plain white label of the eldest son on the death of his brother.

scholarly journals XXI. Account of the Ceremonial of the Marriage of the Princess Margaret, sister of King Edward the Fourth, to Charles, Duke of Burgundy, in 1468: communicated to the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.S.A., and, with his permission, by the Central Committee of the Institute to the Society of Antiquaries

Archaeologia ◽  
1846 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 326-338
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillipps
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Coats Of Arms ◽  
Duke Of Burgundy

The Manuscript, from which the following description is taken, is conjectured to have belonged to one of the Wriothesleys, afterwards Garter, King of Arms, and seems to have been written at different times, during the reigns of Edward IV., Richard III., Henry VII., and Henry VIII. It is a quarto volume, of about two hundred leaves of paper, and contains miscellaneous entries on heraldic affairs, but chiefly Lists of Knights, and Coats of Arms.

Henry VII and Sanctuary

1984 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Iver Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Henry Vii

The association of the early Tudors with the elimination of ecclesiastical prerogatives and immunities has achieved a conspicuous respectability. Most attention is lavished justifiably upon Henry VIII, but the plural is stubborn. Henry VII has been paired with his more combative son, and his reign (1485–1509) is commonly credited as an important phase in the evolution of anticlerical prohibitions. Scholars seem convinced that he and his council “attacked” sanctuary and that the privilege's abridgment was something of a rehearsal for the English Reformation. But it is still possible, and not wholly unprecedented, to challenge the familiar view and to ask whether policies appraised as “notable encroachments” were either notable or, in fact, encroachments. After a sketch of the practice of sanctuary and a synoptical review of the thinking that led to sanctuary's destruction, we can return to Henry VII's council and courts and reevaluate earliest Tudor policy as an illustration of certain late medieval transformations of the abiding coalition between crown and church.

scholarly journals «La Historia de Inglaterra de Rodrigo de Cuero: fuentes y elaboración»

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 121-152
Author(s):  
Antonio Contreras Martín ◽  
Lourdes Soriano Robles
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Henry Vi ◽  
Henry Vii

Resumen: La Crónica de Inglaterra de Rodrigo de Cuero es una traducción de la Cronycle of Englonde with the Fruyte of Tymes realizada a instancias de Catalina de Aragón, reina de Inglaterra, en 1509. Mandada completar por ésta hasta su llegada a Inglaterra, el traductor tuvo que echar mano de las fuentes más diversas. El trabajo analiza, en primer lugar, qué fuentes empleó Rodrigo de Cuero para la elaboración de su obra; en segundo lugar, se ocupa de cómo organizó el material y confeccionó las dos versiones conservadas (manuscritos Escorial y Salamanca); y, en tercer y último lugar, se centra en el tratamiento de los reyes ingleses anteriores a Enrique VIII y Catalina de Aragón (Enrique VI, Eduardo IV, Eduardo V, Ricardo III y Enrique VII).Palabras clave: Historia de Inglaterra, Rodrigo de Cuero, Cronycle of Englonde, Catalina de Aragón, 1509, Traducciones, Historiografía.Abstract: Rodrigo de Cuero’s Historia de Inglaterra is a translation into Castilian of the Cronycle of Englonde with the Fruyte of Tymes made at the request of Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, in 1509. Asked with the responsibility of completing the chronicle until her arrival at England, the translator had to draw on the most diverse sources. The paper analyses, firstly, what sources Rodrigo de Cuero used for the elaboration of his work; secondly, it deals with how he organized the material and made the two preserved versions (Escorial and Salamanca manuscripts); and, thirdly and last, it focuses on the treatment of the English kings before Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III and Henry VII).Keywords: Historia de Inglaterra, Rodrigo de Cuero, Cronycle of Englonde, Catherine of Aragon, 1509, Translations, Historiography.

Conquest or conciliation? The policy debate in Henrician Ireland, c.1515–15461

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Provincial Councils

The first chapter examines the ‘reform’ treatises written more or less during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII and how they impacted upon the development of government policy in Ireland up to 1546. I argue that most writers were overwhelmingly in favour of a programme of renewed conquest, beginning in those parts of Leinster immediately adjoining the Dublin-centred Pale, and that they believed this would finally be initiated following the Kildare Rebellion in the mid-1530s. However owing to Henry VIII’s unwillingness to fund such a conquest a cheap strategy of conciliation known as ‘surrender and regrant’ was briefly experimented with in the early 1540s. The chapter also examines the policy debate, and treatises written on, religious reform and regional reform of Munster and Ulster through the establishment of provincial councils and settlement of colonies.

scholarly journals Introduction

1875 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. i-xlviii
Author(s):  
William Douglas Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Henry Vii

In its main features this History may be described as a continuation of “The Customes of London,” by Richard Arnold, from which the earlier portion, i.e. as far as the 11th year of Henry VIII., is a mere plagiarism. After that date the Chronicle becomes original, and contains much valuable information. From internal evidence it would appear to be the work of a scholar, and to have been written contemporaneously, the events being jotted down from day to day as they occurred. The characteristic of City Chronicles is maintained throughout by the adoption of the civic year, marking the term of office of each Lord Mayor instead of the regnal year of the sovereign, thus causing an apparent confusion in the chronology. This form was probably adopted by our author as he found it already employed by Richard Arnold, whose reign of Henry VII.

scholarly journals IX. Description of the Engravings on a German suit of Armour, made for King Henry VIII., in the Tower of London; by Samuel Rush Meyrick, Esq. LL.D. and F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1829 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Samuel Rush Meyrick
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
Black Paint ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
The Times

In the new arrangement of the Horse-armoury at the Tower, which the Master-General and the Honourable Board of Ordnance were pleased to confide to my directions, I deemed it proper that several of the horses should be barded, instead of allowing the armour for that purpose to remain indiscriminately mixed with other pieces on the walls. Having, therefore, ordered all of such description to be brought to me, that I might put together those of a suit, I found some covered with black paint, which, on holding to the light, appeared to me to contain a faint resemblance of engraving. On removing a portion of this coating my conjectures were not only confirmed, but I instantly saw that these were the horse-armour for the suit, hitherto considered as having been made for Henry VII., and which has the characteristic contour of the close of his reign. On the whole being sent to Enfield to be cleaned, I requested Mr. Lovell, the superintendant of the small armoury department there, whom I knew to be very skilful, to take accurate tracings of whatever was worthy of remark. The result has proved the suit to have belonged to Henry VIII. and exhibits so curious a picture of the superstitious feelings of the times, which conceived a man's body to be doubly protected when not only sheathed in steel but covered with the legends of saints, that I am induced to beg you will lay the drawings before the Society of Antiquaries.

Some Materials for a New Edition of Polydore Vergil's ‘History’

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Francis Aidan Gasquet
Keyword(s):  
European Politics ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
National History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Henry Vii

The importance of Polydore Vergil's ‘History’ for the reign of Henry VII. is fully recognised by all students of that time. Dr. James Gairdner, without doubt our first English authority for the events of this period of our national history, considers that with the exception of the poetical story of Bernard André, from which we learn something, albeit very little, Vergil's work may be regarded as the only contemporary history of this reign. Dr. Wilhelm Busch also, in his excellent study of ‘England under the Tudors,’ speaks as strongly about our indebtedness to this cultured Italian ecclesiastic, and declares that ‘for elegance of language, easy narrative, firmness and independence of judgment [Polydore's work] far surpasses [that of] all the English historians of his day.’ Even for the reign of Henry VIII., although he is considered by some as ‘not so trustworthy, owing to his bias against Wolsey,’ his authority cannot be altogether set aside, since in the opinion of Mr. Brewer ‘no man was better informed on European politics’ at this time.

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