Retrospect
Journal.
Written by Ishaabhya Tripathi
16/03/25
CONTENT WARNING: mentions of pregnancy loss
Catherine of Aragon is perhaps most widely known as the first wife of Henry VIII. Of the king’s six marriages, theirs was the longest, with their matrimony lasting eighteen years. As a daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, she played a crucial role in securing alliances with Tudor England. Catherine’s role in the politics of Europe was decided effectively from infancy, with her first betrothal taking place when she was only three years old. Henry VIII’s dissolution of their marriage proved to be monumental to English history by triggering the English Reformation and shift to Protestantism. However, Catherine’s decision to stay in England after the divorce, as well as contemporary support for her as a queen, suggests that, instead of a passive pawn in a political game, she was resourceful and enterprising in a system that was geared against her.
After the Battle of Bosworth Field in , Henry VII needed to reinforce his claims to the throne. To this effect, forming alliances with other European monarch
Dictionary of National Biography, /Nix, Richard
&#;NIX or NYKKE, RICHARD (?–), bishop of Norwich, son of Richard Nix and his wife Joan Stillington, was born in Somerset; the date of his birth must have been about , if the subsequent estimates of his age can be accepted. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and proceeded LL.D.; he also studied at Oxford and Bologna. In he was rector of Ashbury, Berkshire; in September prebendary of Yatton in the cathedral of Wells, with the living of Cheddon, and in he received by royal patronage the living of Chedzoy. On 3 Feb. –2 he became archdeacon of Exeter, and a year later vicar-general to Richard Foxe [q. v.], then bishop of Bath and Wells. Foxe evidently found Nix a useful official. On 10 July he became archdeacon of Wells, and on 30 July prebendary of Friday Thorpe in the cathedral of York. The latter preferment was presumably due to Foxe's influence. On 15 Feb. –5 he was further made vicar-general in spirituals to Foxe at Durham, and 23 Dec. rector of Bishop Wearmouth. On 29 Nov. he was appointed canon of Windsor, and soon afterwards registrar of the order of the Garter and dean of the Chapel Royal. On 2 Oct. he became rect
The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 7
Bella had a female friend, a young lady, a few months older than herself, and the daughter of a wealthy gentleman who lived very near Mr. Verbouc. Julia was, however, of a less voluptuous and ardent disposition, and, Bella soon found, was not ripe enough to comprehend the sentiments of passion nor understand the strong instincts which provoke to enjoyment.
Julia was slightly taller than her young friend, slightly less plump, but formed to delight the eye and ravish the heart of an artist by her faultless shape and exquisite features.
A flea cannot well be supposed to describe personal beauty, even in those on whom they feed. All I know is that Julia was a luscious treat to me, and would one day also be to some one of the opposite sex, for she was made to raise the desires of the most callous, and to charm by her graceful manners and ever pleasing shape the most fastidious votaries of Venus.
Julia's father possessed, as we have said, ample means; her mother was a weak simpleton, who busied herself very little about her daughter, or, indeed, anything beyond the religious duties in the exercise of which she spent a great part of her ti
John II of Aragon facts for kids
John II (Spanish: Juan II, Catalan: Joan II, Aragonese: Chuan II and Basque: Joanes II; 29 June – 20 January ), called the Great (el Gran) or the Faithless (el Sense Fe), was King of Aragon from until his death in As the husband of Queen Blanche I of Navarre, he was King of Navarre from to John was also King of Sicily from to
Biography
John was born at Medina del Campo (in the Crown of Castile), the son of King Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque. In his youth he was one of the infantes (princes) of Aragon who took part in the dissensions of Castile during the minority and reign of John II of Castile. Until middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alfonso V, whose reign was mainly spent in Italy. In his old age he was preoccupied by incessant conflicts with his Aragonese and Catalan subjects, with Louis XI of France, and in preparing the way for the marriage of his son Ferdinand with Isabella I of Castile which brought about the union of the crowns of Aragon and Castile and which was to create the Kingdom of Sp
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