Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Welcome to the show! Let's talk about Andaline.

Let's take this minicast and talk about the life of this woman who is known through history in not the most pleasant terms.

Oh, Andaline, Andaline history has not been kind to you.

Now, we touched on her last time during Catherine of Eragon, because their lives really did intertwine.

But let's go back a little bit more in her life and look at where she came from.

Well, when was she born? Records don't tell us when she was born.

I saw dates anywhere from 1500 to 1509, but it's almost a 10-year span.

Her father was Sir Thomas Belin, who was the son of an Earl.

He was a diplomat for Henry VII, and then subsequently for Henry VIII.

Her mother was Elizabeth, who was the daughter of an Earl.

So she's in a noble family. She's a girl of means.

She has two siblings, Mary and George, and we touched on Mary's life.

And they, Catherine of Eragon, podcast, but up until she starts making some professional moves,

we really don't know a whole lot about her.

She learns to play the ludes. She learns to dance.

She probably learned etiquette and some languages, reading and writing.

These are things that she was going to need in the life that her parents had planned for her.

She was very witty and very smart and very charming.

That's all we really don't have a whole lot on her childhood.

She was taught to be a court here that we do know.

She was sent at a relatively young age, something as young as four, but Susan and I don't think so.

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