The Tudor Tutor: Your Cheeky Guide to the Dynasty
By Lisa Graves and Barb Alexander
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History doesn’t have to be dry, boring, and difficult to read. As an educator, Barb knows exactly how to engage an audience. This pocket-sized guide is not only informative, but also filled with cheek, snark, and wit. With 50 beautiful illustrations that depict Tudor monarchs and key players during their rule, this book is guaranteed to garner a chuckle or two. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the lesson. Before long, you’ll be sharing Tudor history facts that will be sure to impress your less informed peers.
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Lisa Graves
Lisa Graves is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, where she is active in diocesan leadership, having served as dean and member of diocesan council, as a member of the commission on ministry, co-chair and chairperson of the evangelism committee and St. John's House After School Learning Center Board member. Previously, she served in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, where she was a member of the task force on mission and vitality, as well as in the dioceses of West Virginia, Chicago, and Southwestern Virginia. Graves is a graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary, and before becoming a priest was a creative director in the advertising industry. She co-hosted the weekly podcast Subversive Undercroft with Jon White. She lives in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
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The Tudor Tutor - Lisa Graves
Copyright © 2015 by Barb Alexander and Lisa Graves
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Print ISBN: 978-1-63450-402-7
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When I was a child and would spend the night at
my grandmother’s house, I’d ask her to tell me
a true story,
a tale of her days growing up
in South Philadelphia, before I went to sleep.
This book is dedicated to her, Gertie Presti,
my most beloved part of my own history.
ILLUSTRATION KEY BY PAGE NUMBER
Pear door entrance, Hampton Court
The Tudor Rose
Henry VII
Richard III
Princes in the Tower
Elizabeth of York
Elizabeth Woodville
Margaret Tudor
Mary Tudor
Louis XII
Charles Brandon
Henry VIII, middle-aged
Coronation crown of Henry VIII
Henry VIII, teenaged
Henry VIII, middle-aged
Bessie Blount
Henry Fitzroy
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas More
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Seymour
Thomas Howard
Six wives of Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
Prince Arthur
Greenwich Palace
Anne Boleyn
The forgotten tile, Hampton Court Palace
George Boleyn
The Tower of London
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Marie de Guise
Katherine Howard
Thomas Culpeper
Hampton Court
Catherine Parr
Anne Askew
Edward VI
Lady Jane Grey
Dynastic Dysfunction family tree
Mary I
Philip II
Elizabeth I at coronation
Westminster Abbey
Robert Dudley
Mary Queen of Scots
Francis Walsingham
Robert Devereaux
William Cecil
Nicholas Bacon
Elizabeth and Mary with tomb inscription
James I
Ceiling pattern, Hampton Court Palace
CONTENTS
Welcome!
In a Hurry? Just the Basics
1. Henry VII: Who Died and Made Him King?
2. Henry VIII: The Notorious HRH
3. The Wives: Henry’s Half Dozen
4. Edward VI: Here Comes the Son!
5. Lady Jane Grey: Blink and You’ll Miss Her
6. Mary I: Bringing Catholic Back
7. Elizabeth I: The Grand Finale
8. Full Circle: Life After Tudors
Who, What, and When: A Tudor Timeline
Thank You Notes
Sources
Welcome!
You are about to enter the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
Take care not to judge this time period by our twenty-first-century standards. This includes conventions on religious tolerance, crime and punishment, adultery, and parent-child relationships.
Please leave your desire for indoor plumbing, antibiotics, and good dental care behind.
Enjoy your journey!
In a Hurry?
Just the Basics
The Tudor dynasty began with the highly organized and fiscally responsible Henry VII, whose oldest son Arthur was meant to be the next king before he kicked the bucket at age fifteen. Henry’s second son, the future Henry VIII, then became heir to the throne.
As you may recall, the charismatic and increasingly beefy Henry VIII was on a fierce mission to create a male heir. The only surviving one was to become Edward VI after his father’s death.
Fifteen is an unlucky age for males in this family: When Edward was that age, he too died and his cousin Lady Jane Grey became queen for a short blip (nine days, to be exact). Edward’s half-sister Mary wasn’t taking that lying down. She executed Lady Jane and she soon became Mary I.
After engaging in behavior that would later inspire a tomato-based cocktail, Mary died childless, and her half-sister became Elizabeth I, easily identifiable by her cupcake-paper neck ruff and pasty complexion. Elizabeth too died childless; with all this family’s bad luck in the health and reproductive departments, there were no other Tudors to step in. The crown went to James VI of Scotland (whose great-great grandfather was Henry VII). He became James I of England, and the Stuart dynasty began.
1
Henry VII: Who Died
and Made Him King?
What is arguably the most interesting dynasty in English royal history almost never came to be. Before the Tudors of Wales became the Tudors, Richard III, head of the house of York, sat on the throne. But during one little battle, Henry Tudor and his guys swept in and finished him off with their weapons. When Richard III’s bones were discovered under a Leicester parking lot in 2012, they showed evidence of fatal blows. A sword had entered his skull on one end and came out the other after slicing through his brain, and another segment of his skull had been whacked clear away. The king was dead, long live the new king, Henry VII!
But who did this Henry think he was? Primogeniture, the tradition of passing the crown on from father to oldest son, had been all the rage in England for about four hundred years. Richard III had no surviving heirs when he died and the rest of the children on the York side were either freshly dead (the little princes in the Tower) or female (definitely a problem). But how did Henry Tudor enter the picture?
First, let’s talk about Henry himself. His mother, Margaret Beaufort (a powerhouse in an itty-bitty package) was pregnant with him at age thirteen, not unusual for that time period. His father was captured during the Wars of the Roses and died in prison, before his son was born. Even as a boy, this kid oozed self-confidence, so much so that Henry VI stated he was one to whom both we and our adversaries must yield, and give over the domain.
Though his mother remarried later, Henry spent a lot of time with his uncle Jasper, and it was Jasper who took him to France when he was a teenager. As someone with a claim to the throne, Henry was safer in France than in