26 - Katherine of France (2): The Mother of the Tudors

Queens of England Podcast

James Boulton

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

An announcement about the future of the podcast and then we get into the brief reign of Katherine of France. She gave birth to the next king of England, but she would also give birth to a whole new royal dynasty: the Tudors.

Shownotes

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Henry meets Katherine for the first time in Shakespeare's Henry V (Youtube)

Edmund Beaufort, lover of Katherine of Valois (wikipedia)

Owen Tudor (BBC iWonder)

Samuel Pepys diary entry for when he made out with the long dead Katherine of Valois (PepysDiary.com)

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0:00.0	Before I start today's episode, I have an important announcement to make. When I started this show almost a year ago, I set myself the task of covering every single queen of medieval England from the conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. At the time, it seemed like a daunting task, and I had no idea if anyone would even be interested. A year on, I'm now on my 26th episode,
0:21.5	not to mention the three supplementals,
0:23.8	and you may have noticed that we're coming up rapidly
0:26.1	on the end of the Middle Ages.
0:28.4	Well, I've been thinking for several months now
0:30.9	about what I would do once I finally got to Elizabeth of York,
0:33.9	generally accepted to be medieval England's last queen,
0:39.3	and now I have come to a decision. It seems a shame to stop the show while the audience is still growing, and there are still queens left to cover.
0:45.3	Therefore, I have decided to carry on. Yep, we are going to plough into the Tudors and the Stuarts.
0:52.3	Yay! Now, this does fill me with a certain amount of
0:56.4	trepidation as I'll be entering a period where there is far more material to read and a lot
1:00.5	more romanticism, but I think I'm up to the challenge. Now of course the name of the
1:04.8	show does give us a point at which I can go no further, the final Queen Consort of
1:09.1	England. Who was? Anyone know? If you say Queen Elizabeth
1:14.3	II, then you clearly have not been paying attention, as she is a Queen regnant, not a Queen
1:18.9	consort. If you say Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lion, the late mother of Britain's current Queen,
1:24.2	then you'd be closer, but there's that crucial word, Britain. Remember, Britain and England are not one and the same thing, any more than California and the United States are one and the same.
1:36.8	The final Queen Consort of England was, actually, did you get it? Lots of points to those of you who did, because it is Mary of Modena,
1:45.6	wife of King James II of England. After her, there are only Queen Regnance before we get to the
1:50.6	British queens after the Act of Union in 1707. So how long will it take me to cover the rest of the
1:56.6	queens of England? Well, I honestly don't know. There are ten queens in that span, six of whom, of course, are
2:02.6	wise to Henry VIII, but I think there are quite a few opportunities for supplementals,
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