Mary I's Husband: Philip II of Spain

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Philip II of Spain - the most powerful monarch of the early modern period - was married to Queen Mary Tudor from 1554 until her death in 1558. But Philip was not merely Mary's King Consort. Rather he was King of England, co-ruler with Mary. But Philip's character and central role in the English monarchy was forever blackened by anti-Catholic versions of Tudor history.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, whose ground-breaking research shows that the reign of Mary and Philip was much more than an anomalous glitch on England's journey towards Protestantism.

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0:00.0	If you have a ruler of rulers at home, I'd like you to take it out and look at it now.
0:09.1	If it's the same as mine, it will say for the 16th century, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward
0:16.2	VI, then it might mention Jane or it might not.
0:20.4	Mary I and Elizabeth I, what it almost certainly won't say, is Philip.
0:27.3	But Philip of Spain, husband to Mary I, was King of England from 1554 to 1558.
0:35.7	Today's guest argues that we should not see his kingship as in any way nominal or ceremonial.
0:43.1	Nor should we see him as a kind of king consort, but that we need to rehabilitate him as a committed
0:50.2	joint monarch with Mary.
0:52.2	In short, the conversation we had caused for a total reconceptualisation of our idea of
0:58.2	Tudor history.
1:00.6	Dr Gonzalo Velesco-Berenga is lecturer in global medieval and early modern history at
1:07.7	the University of Bristol.
1:09.4	And he's the author of the forthcoming Habsburg England, politics, religion and society in the
1:16.0	reign of Philip I, 1554 to 1558, which will be published by Brille, and which I've been
1:23.4	lucky enough to read in draft.
1:26.7	Last year he translated for me some of the perplexing letters of the early 16th century Spanish
1:31.6	ambasta Gutierre Gomez de Fuenza Lida.
1:35.6	And I enjoyed the conversations we had so much that I really wanted to bring him on to
1:40.7	discuss his own work.
1:48.5	Gonzalo, it is an absolute pleasure to see you and to chat with you.
1:53.3	It was wonderful to work with you on the material for the book I'm working on, and your expertise
1:59.1	brought such illumination.
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