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#OTD in 1549, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, woke as the most powerful man in Tudor England — and went to bed a denounced traitor.
He had ruled in all but name since 1547. So what brought his fall?
https://www.tudorsociety.com/the-fall-of-lord-protector-somerset/
#TudorHistory #EdwardVI #Somerset

Henry VIII’s Death Was Kept Secret for 3 Days… But Why?
On 31st January 1547, England finally learned of his passing—but behind the scenes, his advisors had already rewritten history. A power grab was in motion...

https://bit.ly/3WFEcNk
#TudorHistory #HenryVIII #EdwardVI

📜 Three Kings, One Day! 👑

28 Jan marks the birth of Henry VII, the death of Henry VIII & the accession of Edward VI. A day that shaped the Tudor dynasty!

Dive into the history: https://bit.ly/4jrqbMW

#TudorHistory #OTD #HenryVII #HenryVIII #EdwardVI

My favourite period? This exact moment when King Edward desperately wanted a male heir to succeed him on the English throne, was dying, and nature told them no. Every descendant, even from the lines they didn't want (bastards, Catholics), was female. So on his death bed, he placed a woman in line of the succession for the first time ever: Jane, a 16 year old girl and I think one of the brightest people ever. She did become queen that next day and stayed so for a few more days, deposed by another woman (Mary I) who raised an army.

This is Tudor times and I don't know whether that counts as medieval or modern.

#JaneGrey #Tudor #EdwardVI
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Tudor royal family tree at the time of Edward VI's death, indicating a whole lot of sons to be in line of the succession, but they didn't exist yet nor were these women even pregnant. Jane is the only woman also in line, in a change to the original plan.

Preparatory sketch by Henry Holiday for an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".

There seems to be a pictorial reference to the Sphinxes' breast in the sketch.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #EdwardVI #HenryVIII #Ahasuerus #sphinx #breasts #Bedpost #TheKingsBedpost #Allusion #PictorialAllusion #PictorialReference #Reformation #BreastsInArt #EdwardVIandThePope #PhilipGalle #MartenVanHeemskerck

More: https://bedpost.snrk.de or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/.

※ [left] One of Henry Holiday's preparatory drafts for the illustration to "Fit the Third - The Baker’s Tale" in Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876). Pay attention to the lines in the grey shaded area of the image.

※ [top right]: Unknown arist: "Edward VI and the Pope, an Allegory of Reformation", mirrored view (16th century, NPG 4165). Iconoclasm depicted in the window. Under the "window", 3rd from left is Thomas Cranmer who wrote the 42 Articles in 1552. The painting "Edward VI and the Pope" (NPG 4165) was, until 1874, the property of Thomas Green, Esq., of Ipswich and Upper Wimpole Street, a collection ‘Formed by himself and his Family during the last Century and early Part of the present Century’ (Roy C. Strong: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p.345). It was sold by Christie’s 20 March 1874 (lot 9) to an unknown buyer. Location: National Portrait Gallery, London

※ [bottom right]: Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck, redrawn (vectorized and mirrored) print "Ahasuerus consulting the records" (1564). The resemblance to the upper image was shown by Dr. Margaret Aston in 1994 in "The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait" (p. 68). She also compared the bedpost to Heemskerck’s Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus. Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

More: https://bedpost.snrk.de (or https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/page_the-kings-bedpost/)

With an expert tour guide and a glass of prosecco in hand

....travel through five centuries of scandal, royal dramas, deaths and terrifying hauntings. Hear the stories of those who have called Hackney’s oldest house a home since it was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir.

https://bit.ly/3RHZHt3

#tudorplaces #tudorplacesmag #tudorplacesmagazine #nationaltrust #suttonhouse #visithackney #thomascromwell #ralphsadler #wolfhall #thetudors #henryviii #privycouncillor #elizabethi #edwardvi

The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by #MargaretAston in 1994 (PhD thesis): "The King’s #Bedpost: #Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait"