All Things Plantagenet

King Henry is intrigued by a preacher who is arrested for heresy and speaks with him to persuade him to give up his dissension against the practices of the Catholic Church. The preacher emphasizes to him the simplicity of the Gospel, and his suffering and convictions impress a young Tower guard. The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R and featured several actors who had appeared in them (but in new roles). Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.

Henry forms an army to defend himself against the Irish-German army coming against him from Ireland. The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R and featured several actors who had appeared in them (but in new roles). Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.

Henry's enemies represent commoner Lambert Simmel as the Earl of Warwick, the York pretender. The Earl of Lincoln leaves for Ireland to head the army that is forming against Henry. The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R and featured several actors who had appeared in them (but in new roles). Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.

King Henry VII consolidates his power when Elizabeth gives birth to Prince Arthur legitimizing Henry's claim of descent from the legendary monarch. The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R and featured several actors who had appeared in them (but in new roles). Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.

The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R and featured several actors who had appeared in them (but in new roles). Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty. Henry Tudor emerges victorious over Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field and seeks to form a coalition from which he hopes to establish a Tudor dynasty.

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Mother of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV and Queen of King Henry VII

Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in northeast France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The unanointed King Charles VII sent Joan to the Siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's consecration at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory.

On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty, she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.

In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. In the 16th century she became a symbol of the Catholic League, and in 1803 she was declared a national symbol of France by the decision of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. Joan of Arc is one of the nine secondary patron saints of France, along with Saint Denis, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Louis, Saint Michael, Saint Rémi, Saint Petronilla, Saint Radegund and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

Joan of Arc has remained a popular figure in literature, painting, sculpture, and other cultural works since the time of her death, and many famous writers, playwrights, filmmakers, artists, and composers have created, and continue to create, cultural depictions of her.

In this drama-documentary series, Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb goes in search of the origins of the deadly craze of witch hunts and trials that infected the British Isles 400 years ago.

In this drama-documentary series, Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb goes in search of the origins of the deadly craze of witch hunts and trials that infected the British Isles 400 years ago.

The First State Bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York

October 1485 - January 1486

Its iconography reveals a very specific late medieval royal language portraying the reversal of Adam and Eve's sins by redeeming monarchs who are making a mutual gesture typical of a pledge of marriage, thus crushing the three symbolic evils of Royal Psalm 91, a theme also used by the late fifteenth-century French monarchy. There is none of the typically Italianate character found in sixteenth-century furniture, but the diaper posts match those used in the court arts of Edward IV, and the wall-joinery of Henry VII, by the evidence of four recently- discovered posts matching this bed, with a 'hR' cipher and fleur-de-lys.

The bed's five royal arms and six single roses are those of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, who were described in terms of redeemers after civil war, and the profile portraits resemble their physiognomy. As symbols of fertility abound, it can only have been made for the marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York at Westminster Palace on 18 January 1486, before the birth of their heir Prince Arthur in September that year. The bed's proportions precisely fit the design of the mural in the Painted Chamber Westminster, against which state beds were set until 1512.

This exceptional object escaped the Commonwealth destruction of royal property and chattels because it was taken to Lancashire in 1495, where it influenced the early sixteenth-century Lancashire school of joinery. Its discovery near Huddersfield in 1842, by George Shaw, a copyist who did not understand its origins, only makes sense in this demonstrable historical context. And its obfuscation into the twenty-first century is due to the fact Shaw's smaller, simply varnished and illiterate copies were passed off as the beds of northern aristocrats seeking their family heirlooms. Shaw wanted to hide it, and kept the front crest in his house while the bed eventually wound up in a hotel in Chester, lost in plain sight.