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It’s time to take a look at the life and legacy of George Boleyn…
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Linked videos and playlists:
Jane Boleyn: https://youtu.be/lUfwOYZek9k
Anne Boleyn: https://youtu.be/J7bXuK-kGR0
Anne and Mary Boleyn: https://youtu.be/tTICbSdIjxU
Henry VIII: https://youtu.be/b-nNLEkFUsY
Elizabeth I: https://youtu.be/6yhV6nKWyns
Order of the Bath: https://youtu.be/yIPhE8l16CI
Eltham Ordinances: https://youtu.be/dT0QCSXN_48
Order of the Garter: https://youtu.be/Vp6JV6HR9Y8
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown Netherlandish artist (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
A tapestry in the Flemish style of Catherine of Aragon and her husband Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (c.early 1500s); by an unknown artist and in an unknown collection.
Detail from the portrait of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland by Daniël Mijtens (c.1620-c.1638). Held by the Royal Collection.
16th century woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon showing their heraldic badges, the Tudor rose and the pomegranate. From Stephen Hawes, A Joyfull Medytacvon to All Englande (1509), printed Wynkyn de Worde, 4to, n.d. (Cambridge University Library), a single sheet with woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
Screenshot from https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol2/pp1490-1518
Portrait of a Lady called Mary Boleyn, Lady Stafford attributed to Remigius van Leemput (c.1630-c.1670). Held by the Royal Collection.
Drawing of Henry VIII dining in his privy chamber from the circle of Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1548). Held by the British Museum.
Screenshot of Extract from the Ordinances of Eltham, January 1526 (SP 2/B f228) - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sp2-biii1.jpg
Screenshot from https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php
Portrait of Anne Boleyn by an unknown English artist (late 16th century, based on a work of circa 1533-1536). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Portrait of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey by an unknown artist (1585-1596). Held by Trinity College, Cambridge.
Plan of the first Bethlem Hospital:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31185/31185-h/31185-h.htm#Page_45
Portrait of Francis I by Jean Clouet (1527-1530). Held by the Louvre.
Portrait of Henry VIII by Joos van Cleve (c. 1531). Held by the Royal Collection.
Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527). Held by the Frick Collection.
Arms of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by Sodacan (2010)
Artist's Impression of the Tower of London Site, 1547 by Ivan Lapper (1999). Commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum, from ArtUK.
Screenshot of https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol10/pp349-371
Quoted texts:
Joseph S. Block, ODNB entry on George Boleyn (2004)
Lauren Mackay, Among the Wolves of Court (2018)
George Cavendish, “Viscount Rochford” in Metrical Visions (16th century)
Lancelot de Carle, referenced by Eric Ives in The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (2004)
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol10/pp349-371
Charles Wriothesley, Chronicle of England (16th Century)
George Boleyn Scaffold Speech as recorded in the Chronicle of Calais
Also consulted, were:
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
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