Read Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World Online
Authors: Alison Weir
1.
Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XVI f. 156 gives October 7, but Stow:
London
, citing the tomb inscription, gives November 14. This cannot be correct, as the warrant for the funeral expenses was issued on October 26.
2.
HVIIPPE
3.
Ibid.; Bacon
4.
HVIIPPE
5.
Exchequer Records E.404; Egerton MS. 2, 642, f. 185v
6.
Great Chronicle of London;
Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XVI f. 156; Sandford; Lane; Strickland; Stow:
London
7.
Stow:
London
8.
PPE;
Vail; Ashdown-Hill:
Richard III’s “Beloved Cousyn”;
Smith
9.
Foedera
10.
Bacon
11.
CSP Spain
12.
The King and Queen were in residence at Sheen from February 26 until they moved to Windsor on April 14
(HVIIPPE)
.
13.
Records of the Keeper of the Privy Seal PSO 1; Exchequer Records E.101
14.
HVIIPPE
15.
Cokayne
16.
HVIIPPE
17.
Ibid.
18.
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain
19.
Exchequer Records E.101;
PPE
20.
Miscellaneous Books E.36
21.
Meerson
22.
PPE
23.
Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince
24.
Ibid.
25.
Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus
26.
Skelton:
The Poetical Works
27.
Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince
28.
Loades:
Tudor Queens
29.
PPE
30.
Cited by Strickland
31.
HVIIPPE;
Special Collections S.C. 1/51/189
32.
CSP Venice
33.
HVIIPPE;
Strickland; Wroe
34.
The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources;
Gristwood: Bruce
35.
Hall
36.
Ibid.
37.
HVIIPPE
38.
Ibid.
39.
CSP Milan
40.
Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince;
Hutchinson:
Young Henry
41.
Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince
42.
CSP Venice; CSP Milan
43.
Bacon
44.
Ibid.
45.
CSP Venice
46.
Ibid.
47.
Letter of Henry VII in Lambeth Palace MS. 632 f. 25
48.
Bacon
49.
Gristwood
50.
André
51.
Ibid.; Gristwood
52.
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
53.
Wroe; Gristwood
54.
Great Chronicle of London;
Cotton MS. Vitellius, A XVI, f. 168; Moorhen
55.
Wroe
56.
Bacon
57.
Meerson;
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland;
Miscellaneous Books E.36;
HVIIPPE;
Wroe
58.
HVIIPPE
59.
Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI, printed in
Chronicles of London
60.
CSP Venice
61.
Baldwin:
Elizabeth Woodville
62.
Egerton MS. 616, f. 7
63.
CSP Spain
64.
Before the Reformation, priests were customarily given the courtesy title “sir.”
65.
The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters
66.
CSP Milan
67.
“St. Thomas’ night,” according to
The Great Chronicle of London
, although
CSP Milan
says the night before Christmas Eve.
68.
CSP Venice
69.
CSP Milan
70.
Ibid.
71.
CSP Venice
72.
Bacon
73.
CSP Milan
74.
Ibid.
75.
Great Chronicle of London
76.
CSP Milan
77.
CSP Spain
78.
PPE
79.
HVIIPPE
80.
Anglo: “The Court Festivals of Henry VII”
81.
HVIIPPE
82.
CSP Spain
83.
Ibid.
84.
Ibid.
85.
Ibid.
86.
Gristwood
87.
CSP Spain
88.
Ibid.
89.
Ibid.
90.
Ibid.
91.
HVIIPPE
92.
Capgrave
93.
HVIIPPE
94.
Cooper; Lyte
95.
CSP Spain
96.
Licence:
Elizabeth of York
97.
CSP Spain
98.
Ibid.
99.
Foedera
100.
Great Chronicle of London
101.
Green
102.
Great Wardrobe Accounts;
Exchequer Records E.101;
HVIIPPE
103.
The date is recorded in the Beaufort Hours, which is more likely to be correct than Ayala, who wrote that the Queen “was delivered of a son on Friday” (
CSP Spain
). Charles Wriothesley also gives the date incorrectly as February 22.
104.
Great Wardrobe Accounts; HVIIPPE
105.
CSP Spain
106.
Gristwood
107.
CSP Spain
108.
HVIIPPE
109.
Wriothesley
110.
Including your author in
Britain’s Royal Families
.
111.
Lenz Harvey:
The Rose and the Thorn
112.
Hutchinson:
Young Henry;
Gristwood
113.
Lenz-Harvey, in
Elizabeth of York
, says that grief over Princess Elizabeth’s death caused the Queen to give birth to a son too small to survive.
114.
Loades:
Mary Rose
, although he says that Elizabeth had “an abortive pregnancy”; Norton:
England’s Queens
, but she incorrectly gives the date of Princess Elizabeth’s death as 1497 and—like Lenz-Harvey in
Elizabeth of York
—the date of Princess Mary’s birth as 1498, as Holinshed wrongly has it.
115.
King’s MS. 395, ff. 32v-33
116.
For example, Chrimes
117.
Leland:
Itinerary
. The house was destroyed during the Civil War and rebuilt in the early eighteenth century.
118.
CSP Spain
119.
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain
120.
HVIIPPE
121.
The occasion was immortalized in a fresco executed in 1910 in the Palace of Westminster by F. W. Cowper, although it was incorrectly set at Greenwich; and in stained glass made in 1881 for St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds.
122.
“Britain Personified,” in Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus
123.
Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus
124.
Letter of Cardinal Reginald Pole of September 7, 1549, in
CSP Venice
125.
CSP Spain
126.
Records of the Court of King’s Bench: Indictments Files KB 9/390, 84–86
127.
Hall
128.
HVIIPPE
129.
Moorhen
130.
CSP Spain
1.
CSP Spain
2.
Bacon
3.
CSP Spain
4.
Ibid.
5.
Chronicle of Calais;
Wroe
6.
CSP Spain
7.
Bacon
8.
Great Wardrobe Accounts
9.
Ibid.; Wardrobe Indentures in Exchequer Records E.101
10.
Chrimes; Loades:
Mary Rose
11.
PPE
12.
Grafton;
Chronicle of Calais; CSP Spain
13.
This red-brick palace had been built around 1480–85 by Cardinal Morton when he was Bishop of Ely. It is famous as the palace where Prince Edmund’s great-niece, Elizabeth I, spent much of her youth and learned of her accession. Only the great hall and one tower of the old palace remain today, the rest having been pulled down in 1607–08 when Robert Cecil was building Hatfield House. For Arthur’s health see p. 374 and note 49.
14.
HVIIPPE
15.
Ibid.
16.
Collection of Ordinances
17.
Chronicles of London
18.
Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Victoria County History: Kent;
Jones and Underwood. Greenwich Palace and the Observants’ church were demolished in the reign of Charles II. Today, the Queen’s House and the National Maritime Museum occupy the site.
19.
CSP Spain
20.
HVIIPPE
21.
Exchequer Records E.101
22.
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
23.
CSP Spain
24.
Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI
25.
Harleian MS. 69
26.
Orders of the Privy Council, cited Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York
27.
CSP Spain
28.
Ibid.
29.
Great Chronicle of London
30.
Account of Lancaster Herald, in
Antiquarian Repertory
31.
Ibid.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid.;
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England;
Dowsing; Hedley; Fletcher
34.
Great Chronicle of London
35.
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Victoria County History: Surrey
. All that substantially remains of the palace today is the original gatehouse, which bears the arms of Henry VII above the entrance arch.
36.
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine
37.
Jones and Underwood
38.
Harleian MS. 69
39.
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Leland:
Collectanea
40.
This account of Katherine’s reception, her wedding, and the celebrations that followed is based on descriptions and information in
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Hall; Cotton MS. Vitellius XVI; Cotton MS. Vitellius CXI; Harleian MS. 69;
Great Chronicle of London; HVIIPPE;
Leland:
Collectanea;
Cowie; Gristwood; Davey; Stow:
London
41.
Maria Perry; Cokayne
42.
CSP Spain
43.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII
44.
Ibid.
45.
Ibid.
46.
Ibid.
47.
Real Academia de Historia MS. 9–4674, cited by Tremlett
48.
Cited by Tremlett
49.
Fuensalida. Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, July 25, 1500, cited Patrick Williams
.
50.
“Low” dances: elegant, measured dances in which there are no jumps or capers and the feet do not leave the floor.
51.
Antiquarian Repertory
52.
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine
53.
CSP Spain
54.
Ibid.; Fraser:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII;
Starkey:
Six Wives
55.
Foedera
56.
Account of Somerset Herald, in Leland:
Collectanea
57.
PPE
58.
College of Arms MSS.: Collection of Miscellany I, f. 84b-91; Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI, f. 282; Leland:
Collectanea
59.
PPE
60.
Treasurer’s Accounts, September 1502, Register House, Edinburgh