Episode 207: Empson and Dudley

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's really nice when you have people who will do your dirty work and implement the policies you come up with that are super unpopular, so they get the blame and you're free. Right? Isn't that a cool deal to have? Only problem is when you're those guys doing the work, and your protector dies, and the next guy comes in and wants to show how he'll change everything... oops. Let's talk about Henry VII's implementation team: Empson and Dudley. Tudorcon tickets at https://www.englandcast.com/TudorconOnline Thanks so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.
0:15.5	I am your host, Heather Tusco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because
0:20.3	I believe it's a
0:21.0	pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in touch
0:26.6	with our own humanity. So the Tudor Dynasty was, of course, marked by intrigue, power
0:31.5	struggles, and transformation. And key figures behind the scenes, as we've seen, often had considerable influence among these
0:40.6	Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley standout, not only for their loyalty to Henry the 7th,
0:46.8	but the widespread unpopularity they garnered. Historians like Polydor Virgil saw them as extortioners,
0:57.6	which was basically the public sentiment at the time.
1:02.8	However, their actions were endorsed by the king, so they were loyal servants, they would claim.
1:10.5	As crucial advisors to the king, their actions would set the stage for political maneuverings at the dawn of Henry the 8th's reign. So that's what we're talking about
1:12.4	today. But before we get started, you guys, TudorCon is less than two weeks away. So if you want to
1:20.4	come and grab your spot for the streaming ticket, you're running out of time. So the address,
1:26.6	I know I say this all the time, Englandcast.com slash TudorCon
1:30.8	online, three days of tutor immersion, all kinds of talks, a Tudor cookalong video, a Tudor
1:39.8	musical, it's going to be a weekend of just tutor immersion. So Englandcast.com
1:45.4	slash tutor con online for the streaming ticket because of course in-person ticket sales have
1:50.4	closed. Also a big shout out and thank you to a couple of my newest patrons, Catherine, Paula, Kim,
1:56.7	Deanna, Dina maybe, as well as Bernice and Bobby. Thank you so much for supporting the Renaissance English
2:04.9	History podcast. Patrons get extra episodes, chats with authors, all kinds of cool stuff. So if you
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