198 Mothers and Wives

The History of England

David Crowther

Europe, Queen, England, Medieval, Politics, Royal, History, Parliament, English, King, Modern, Early Modern, Monarchy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In 1485 and 1486 Henry established the foundations of his reign through parliament, and established his household. The relationship between his wife and his mother would always be a matter of some debate.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 198 Mothers and Wives.
0:21.7	So I appreciate that you are looking bailfully at your pod catcher and player tapping
0:26.8	your fingers lightly but firmly on your cross-dance and waiting to see how on earth I'm going
0:31.5	to dig myself out of the mess that I've created.
0:35.1	I've been forward to the Battle of Stoke in 1487, back to the history of Europe, back
0:40.5	to a discussion about Henry's historiography.
0:43.5	On the way, I've missed out really most of what happened immediately after Bosworth and
0:47.7	all that.
0:48.7	What a mess.
0:49.9	But don't worry, all will be well with a contract heart and a fair wind following
0:55.9	free.
0:56.9	Let's help by just recapping what we've done.
1:01.1	We saw poor old Richard's body dumped into the ground in episode 194 and followed the
1:06.2	narrative through to the arrival of the first pretender Lambert Simnal and his defeat at
1:11.0	Stoke.
1:12.3	In the last episode 197 we then heard about how Henry chewed a manufactured a myth and
1:18.0	started to establish his legitimacy after Bosworth, so just bear all of that in mind as we go.
1:25.7	By the 7th of September 1485 Henry VII arrived in London in triumph.
1:32.6	It's a kind of honeymoon period.
1:34.4	The hard work would start at the Parliament coming up in November.
1:37.7	The first job was to get moved in and start the minions working on preparing for said
1:42.0	Parliament and also his coronation.
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