Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503 - 1533 > Status Update
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‘The material culture of royal childbirth provided both Catherine and Margaret with legitimacy and support during very difficult first pregnancies, and Catherine, at least, understood the important of material culture in establishing her authority as a mother. After her death in 1536 numerous goods relating to her confinements were found in storage’
— Mar 17, 2019 04:58PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘in May 1517 Catherine and Margaret performed a public and deliberately staged intercession before Henry VIII when they pleaded for the lives of a group of London apprentice boys who were about to be executed for their part in the Evil May Day riots. This act may have earned Catherine lasting fame as a champion of London’s poor, and it was certainly a calculated decision by Catherine and Margaret‘
— Mar 18, 2019 07:34PM
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‘a discussion of the influence of Catherine’s and Margaret’s immediate predecessor in England, Elizabeth of York (r. 1486-1503) on early sixteenth-century British queenship. Elizabeth of York was Margaret’s mother and Catherine’s mother-in-law, and her reign provided an important precedent for Catherine and Margaret to follow when they established their own courts and households in England and Scotland.’
— Mar 17, 2019 08:40AM
