[YouTube Drop] Mary of Hungary
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Heather Teysko
4.6 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Grand Sumo Tournament comes to the Royal Albert Hall. |
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| 1:04.7 | Let's start with a Tudor moment. |
| 1:09.7 | In the late 1530s, when Mary Tudor was still fighting against being labeled illegitimate, |
| 1:12.6 | she was forced by her father to write a letter to a woman she had never met, Mary of Hungary, the sister of Emperor Charles V. It was actually |
| 1:18.9 | something we talked about on one of the Tudor minutes this past week. When I was talking about it, |
| 1:23.9 | it got me interested, who was Mary of Hungary? Mary of Hungary was the sister of |
| 1:29.9 | Emperor Charles V, like I said. And in this letter, Mary had to formally accept that she was a |
| 1:35.2 | bastard and acknowledge that her mother's marriage had never been valid. And here's the part that |
| 1:41.2 | stings. It wasn't addressed to Henry or to Charles. It was sent to Mary |
| 1:46.4 | because she was the one that was actually running things in Charles' name. And that tells you |
| 1:51.7 | almost everything you need to know about her position in European politics. She wasn't a queen |
| 1:56.8 | consort tucked quietly away. She was a power broker. Mary of Hungary was born Mary of Austria |
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