Smollett, Tobias. Roderick Random. J. Osborn, 1748, 2 vols.
13 ns (April 1795): 468
King Henry VII
Standard Name: Henry VII, King
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Lady Arbella Stuart | As a descendant of Henry VII
and a niece of Mary Queen of Scots
, LAS
belonged to the highest possible rank and was close enough to lines of succeession to the thrones both of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
's father, Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox
, was the only surviving child of his mother, Lady Margaret Douglas
; he was a grandson of Margaret Tudor
, Queen of Scots, and a great-grandson... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | Her father, Charles Wynn Griffith-Wynne
, was the Member of Parliament for Caernarfonshire in Wales. He was a grandson of the third Earl of Aylesford
, whose second son, Charles, married Jane Wynne
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Pix | MP
's Catherine is not (like Shakespeare's) Katherine Parr, but is the French-born widow of Henry V
, who formed an illicit union in about 1429 with the Welsh prince Owen Tudor
, which produced... |
| Literary Setting | Eleanor Sleath | |
| Textual Features | Mrs E. M. Foster | This four-volume novel follows many conventions of romance such as moated castles and beauteous damsels. |
| Textual Features | Josephine Tey | Through an innovative blend of historical scholarship and detective fiction, the novel exonerates Richard III
for the murder of the little Princes in the Tower, pinning the crime on Henry VII
. JT
's... |
| Textual Features | Emma Robinson | Owen Tudor, fifteenth-century descendant of a royal and ancient Welsh family, was paternal grandfather of Henry VII
. All kinds of romantic stories surround his secret marriage with Catherine de Valois
, widow of Henry V |
| Textual Features | Jane Loudon | |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
Timeline
22 August 1485: King Richard III was killed at the battle...
National or international item
22 August 1485
King Richard III
was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field; Henry Bolingbroke seized the throne of England and reigned as Henry VII
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
42
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 77
16 June 1487: The forces of Lambert Simnel (claimant to...
National or international item
16 June 1487
The forces of Lambert Simnel
(claimant to the throne, self-proclaimed Earl of Warwick, who had some Irish supporters) were defeated by those of Henry VII
.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
232
August 1497: Perkin Warbeck, allegedly younger brother...
National or international item
August 1497
Perkin Warbeck
, allegedly younger brother of Edward V
but probably an impostor, was taken into custody by Henry VII
; he was executed two years later.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
232
1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
Building item
1502
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
(also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII
), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
Leach, Arthur Francis. Educational Charters and Documents, 598-1909. AMS Press, 1971.
xi
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
24
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
146
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Paraphernalia”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 22, 19 Nov. 2009, pp. 24-5. 24
21 April 1509: King Henry VII died; the next day Henry VIII...
National or international item
21 April 1509
King Henry VII
died; the next day Henry VIII
assumed the throne of England. He began his reign by marrying Catherine of Aragon
, widow of his brother Arthur.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
42
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
108
Duffy, Eamon. “The Unlikeliest Loophold”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 15, 28 July 2011, pp. 17-18. 17-18
By 1514: Mary, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry...
Building item
By 1514
Mary
, daughter of Henry VII
(sister of Henry VIII
and later Queen of France), had her own schoolmaster.
Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. Methuen, 1984.
161
After 18 March 1954: English-educated, American historical or...
Writing climate item
After 18 March 1954
English-educated, American historical or biographical novelist Anya Seton
issued her best-known work, Katherine, about the commoner from whom descends every English monarch since Henry VII
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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