What's this?????????? It's Clyde's long overdue article about time travel!!!!

[And some people say, better late than never...  Mrs P.]

Hi everybody !

I'm going to talk to you about the 15^th - 16^th century ! 

Because if I would travel in the past I would like to be there. 

So I'll talk precisely of The Tudors !

  Illustration : this is the symbol of the Tudors.

MEMBERS OF THE TUDOR FAMILY

Illustration : Henri VII

captured the crown of England  

Son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort and descendant of Edward III of England . He became king after his victory over Richard III AND putting an end to the Wars of the -Roses .

Illustration : Henri Vlll

Son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York . Is the origin of the birth of Anglicanism (Doctrine , principles and institutions of the official Church of England. Constituting a middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism , Anglicanism includes , besides the official Church of England Churches Say " Episcopalian " Mainly established in South Africa, Australia , Canada and the United States.) when he breaks with the papacy to divorce Catherine of Aragon and to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn.

 

Illustration : Edward VI

 Son of Henri VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour. He rises on the throne to the age of only nine years, it was also one of the youngest English sovereigns.

illustration : Mary the first

Daughter of Henri VIII and of his first wife Catherine d' Aragon. She is nicknamed "Bloody Mary" by the Anglican Protestants, because of the persecutions which she led against them during her reign to restore  Roman Catholicism.

illustration : Elizabeth 1st

Daughter of Henri VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. In her death without descent the throne passes to her cousin king Jacques VI of Scotland. It was one of the biggest queens of England. Her long reign of 44 years defines the Elizabethan period, which knew an age of incomparable gold.

The Tudor family is at the origin of a royal dynasty which gave its name to the period of the English history situated between 1485 and 1603. The era Tudor marks the end of the civil war which established the Wars of the Roses and cover the reign of five monarches who contributed to make of England a major European power.

The dynasty Tudor or House Tudor sees its origin going back to the XIIIth century. It englobes a continuation of five monarchs of  Welsh origin who reigned over the kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland from 1485 to 1603. Three main monarches, Henri VII of England, Henri VIII of England and queen Elizabeth Ist, orchestrated the transfer of the kingdom of England of an European backyard always plunged into the Way.

The time Tudor is a member the most popular historic English periods of the literature and the legend.

The house Tudor supplied in particular a whole series of with a ruddy complexion characters which seized the poets, the playwrights and later the novelists and the film-makers. 

From the XVIth century, the entry in the throne of the first king of the dynasty, Henri VII is staged in Richard III of Shakespeare. 

Henry VIII, Shakespeare's play and John Fletcher sees the birth of queen Elisabeth I. 

The Protestant martyrology, John Foxe, will be at the origin of the Marie Tudor's black legend with Acts and Monuments, whereas Sir Edmund Spenser forges Elisabeth's golden legend I, Gloriana of the epic poem Tea Faerie Queene which will inspire later Gloriana, opera in three. 

I really like these series because the costumes and the actors are really beautiful and real.

[So what about a history quiz on that period? That was on British TV... Mrs P.]