Sarah Gristwood wrote the November guest post at The History Girls Blog about her new book, Blood Sisters.
The History Girls – The Women who won the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
You can also enter their competition to win a copy of Blood Sisters.
@BuffHistory wrote about Elusive Birth Dates at All Things Robert Dudley. Her article includes Guildford Dudley.
Historian Sarah Gristwood will give a lecture at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2013.
The lecture ‘Blood Sisters’ is based on her new book ‘Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses’ which was published in September 2012.
‘Sarah Gristwood explores the lives of seven royal women who helped end the Wars of the Roses with their Political and dynastic skills.’ (From National Portrait Gallery website)
14 February 2013
13:15
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
‘Alford’s splendid exploration of the secret world of Elizabethan England begins with an arresting what-if-scenario: what if the queen had been assassinated in 1586?….he sets the scene for a riveting study of the spies, informers and code-breakers who kept the Virgin Queen safe from Catholic conspiracies during an erathat was much more paranoid that we remember.’ (Dominic Sandbrook, p.44, 25 November 2012)
The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.32
‘The xiijth daie of November were ledd out of the Tower on foot, to be arrayned, to yeldhall, with the axe before theym, from theyr warde, Thomas Cranmer, archbushoppe of Canterbury, between (blank)
Next followed the lorde Gilforde Dudley, between (blank)
Next followed the lady Jane, between (blank), and hir ij. Gentyllwomen following hir.
Next followed the lorde Ambrose Dudley and the lorde Harry Dudley.
The lady Jane was in a blacke gowne of cloth, tourned downe; the cappe lined with fese velvet, and edget about with the same, in a French hoode, all black, with a black byllyment, a black velvet boke hanging before hir, and another boke in hir hande open, holding hir.’
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Diary of Henry Machyn
p.37
‘(The 13th of November were arraigned at Guildhall doctor Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, the lord) Gylfford Dudlay, the sune of the duke of Northumberland, and my lade Jane ys wyff, the doythur of the duke of Suffoke-Dassett, and the lord Hambrosse Dudlay, (and the) lord Hare Dudlay, the wyche lade Jane was proclamyd (Queen): they all v wher cast for to dee.’
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Original Letters Relative to the Reformation
p.374 & 507-8
‘On November the fourteenth Jane, formerly queen, together with the archbishop of Canterbury and all the sons of the duke of Northumberland, was arraigned before the judges at Whitehall; you know the place at London. Sentence of death was pronounced upon them all.’
Letter CLXXXII
Julius Terentianus to John (Ab Ulmis)
Strasburgh Nov 20 1553
‘On the 14th of November the archbishop of Canterbury, together with the late queen Jane, and the sons of the duke of Northumberland, were brought to trial, and condemned to death…’
Letter CCXXXVIII
Peter Martyr to Henry Bullinger
Strasburgh Dec 15 1553
