wiki-illiam #105: q12

[dubdobdee]

Which Queen of England or Great Britain:
i: battled for Lancaster?
ii: was the first to be kissed by Pepys?
iii: was the consort of two Kings of England?
iv: made a posthumous journey to London leaving her viscera at Lincoln?
v: numbered two archbishops and one bishop among her maternal uncles?
vi: on first meeting her future spouse had prompted him to order a glass of brandy?
vii: escaped in a hurry from a Cambridge Hall, before it was burned down?
viii: died following surgery for an umbilical hernia?
ix: regretted the jettisoning of this for that?
x: corresponded with Mrs Freeman?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

This should be easier, though as I think of them they are all a blur! Surely MATILDA will be one.

i: during the wars of the roses, presumably -- the one who captured and imprisoned henry vi? ("here on this molehil will i sit me down, to whom god will the victory"); ok i get as muddled as everyone else about the wars of the roses... eleanor? edward iv's wife?
ii: has to be wife of charles ii, james ii, or mary or anna gloria?
vi: might be one of the six wives of h8 -- anne of cleves is the one he considered beyond ugly
vii: wife of charles i? but i think they were holed up in oxford curing the civil war? so maybe this is matilda

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Ooh is 1 Queen Margaret who went and nabbed all the Scottish soldiers?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i think margaret is the battling queen curing the WotR isn't she? Eleanor is Edward I's or III's wife that all the crosses were put up for on her funeral procession? (ie might be iv)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

during not curing

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

iii) Catherine of Aragon! She was Henry VII's wife first I think.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And IIRC that was the basis of his later claim that the marriage was invalid.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i thought of this actually, but surely she was not H7's but H8's older brother arthur's wife first, except arthur never got to be king!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

bah duh of course, yes

iii.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ooh, I think I know this one. It was in that Graun booklet on Kings and Queens of England they gave away a few weeks ago. It's the missus of one of the Aethelreds or similarly-named Kings from that era. He was murdered by his son or brother or nephew who then became King and married her.

Re: iii.

[cis.livejournal.com]

oh gd it i read about this just the other day in the dictionary of national biography! (the aethel- pages are the best ones, obv) I feel like she was called Emma: I think they agreed that if they didn't have issue, her son from the previous king would inherit the throne? I'll go and take a look in a bit.

Re: iii.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Confirming Emma of Normandy. Second wife of Aethelred, who became King in 978 in suspicious circs following the assassination of his brother, Edward the Martyr. The likely instigator of Edward's death was his stepmum, Aelfthryth, who wanted her own son to be king - although there was no direct evidence of her complicity.

After Aethelred died in 1016, Canute succeeded him - and married Emma of Normandy, even though he already had a wife, Aelfgifu. Canute probably married Emma for legitimacy vis a vis his claim to the throne.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

iv) which queens were executed? Anne Boleyn was executed on Tower Green but I have completely forgotten who the other executed wife of Henry VIII even WAS - aargh mind blank. It was another Katherine...

Was Lady Jane Grey executed at Lincoln?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(nb it will surprise no one to learn that my favourite of the wives was the PROTESTANT HO Anne Boleyn)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Executed wives: Anne B and Catherine Howard.