How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Spanish infanta Catalina of Aragon was raised to be a Queen, betrothed at the age of three to the heir apparent of the English throne, Arthur Prince of Wales. Eight years after Arthur's death, she became the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Catalina's mother - Queen Isabella I of Castile - was the most influential person in her life. Witness at an early age to the expulsion of Jews, the defeat of the Moors in Spain, and the triumphal return of Christopher Columbus, Catherine grew up to be a intelligent, highly literate, multi-lingual woman, devoted to her Catholic faith, and a popular, charismatic Queen.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discovers more about the early life of Catherine with two leading experts: Dr. Theresa Earenfight, Professor of History at Seattle University and author of a forthcoming biography of Catherine, and Emma Cahill Marron, whose dissertation is focused on the Queen's role as a patron of the arts in Tudor England.

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0:00.0	Much of what we know about Catherine of Aragon starts with her marriage to Arthur Tudor,
0:11.1	first son of King Henry VII of England in 1501.
0:15.7	So today I want to do something else.
0:18.2	I want to focus on the period before 1501, the crucial formative years of Catherine's
0:24.2	life.
0:25.4	These were the parapetetic years of her upbringing at the court of her parents, King Ferdinand
0:30.6	or Fernando of Aragon and Queen Isabel of Castile.
0:36.4	These were the years in which she was prepared for the life to come, with all its majesty,
0:41.4	challenges and bitter hardships.
0:44.9	These were the years in which Catherine of Aragon learnt how to be a queen.
0:51.2	I'm joined by two guests today on a panel to discuss Catherine of Aragon's early life.
0:57.3	Teresa Eronfai is Professor of History at Seattle University.
1:01.7	She's contributed greatly to the study of Queenship, as the author, for example, of Queenship
1:06.5	in medieval Europe.
1:08.3	And her new book, which will be out on the 8th of December this year with Penn State University
1:12.9	Press, is called Catherine of Aragon in Fanta, Spain, Queen of England.
1:18.4	Teresa is joined by Emma Cahill Maron, who is an up and coming scholar in the field.
1:24.1	Emma is a PhD candidate at the University of Messia in Spain and is writing about the
1:29.0	artistic and cultural patronage of Catherine of Aragon.
1:33.0	She's published lots of articles that explore Catherine's education, her books and the reception
1:38.1	of Catherine in England for her wedding to Arthur in 1501.
1:42.0	So I could not choose two better people to talk to me about the early Catherine of Aragon.
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