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why did Queen Isabella prefer tall beds This one has hit the blog before, lots of times, and I'm still baffled as to what it means.
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what did queen isabella do to poor people Well, she imprisoned eighteen children in Chester Castle in the summer of 1327 as hostages for the good behaviour of the townspeople, who had been "disobedient and ill-behaved."
what did queen isabella believe in Imprisoning children because some people in the town where they lived had been "disobedient" towards her. (Funny the way Edward II is often slated for imprisoning some of the wives and children of the Contrariants in 1322, but no-one notices that Isabella did the same thing, isn't it?)
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Talking of which, here's a quotation from an information sheet apparently handed out at the Highland Games. Read it and weep...
William Wallace "was not the father of Edward III but neither was Edward II the father of the child. He was totally gay and fathered no children. Isobel had a lover, Mortimer, but he neither was the father of Edward III. It is rumored that Edward I was the father by choice to keep his line going."
Someone actually printed this rubbish, someone who couldn't even spend twenty seconds checking Wikipedia for the birth and death dates of Edward I and III, and no doubt hundreds or even thousands of people read it and assumed it was true. Sigh...
From another site: Isabella of France "eventually got rid of her husband’s first lover, his second lover, her husband and her own lover...she rid the country of Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser, two of the most reviled people in England, quashed wars with the barons, stopped on civil war by invading England with Mortimer, successfully negotiated treaties with France and Scotland and left the throne to her son who turned out to be a decent king...Oh sure, she wasn’t above drawing and quartering people who crossed her but they deserved it (Hugh Despenser was thought to have raped her)."
Bet you never knew Isabella 'got rid' of Piers Gaveston and Roger Mortimer, did you? I'd love to know how Isabella 'quashed wars with the barons' and 'left the throne' to her son (it wasn't hers to leave!). There's really no evidence that Hugh Despenser raped or sexually assaulted Isabella, and although he may have been a pretty unpleasant person, it's not fair to accuse him of such a serious crime when the only so-called evidence is Isabella's statement in a letter of February 1326 that Hugh "wished to dishonour us by his power" (qi nous voudrait deshonurer a son poiar), which is amply explained by Hugh's other actions towards her.
Talking of Hugh Despenser (the Younger), today is the 684th anniversary of his grotesque execution in Hereford. RIP, Hugh!
RIP, Hugh! (And I hope those photographs from Bannockburn turn up, provided that they haven't faded too badly, of course.)
ReplyDeleteHaha! It always amazes me how many hits the blog gets for 14C 'photos'! (In fact, there are no photos of Edward II at Bannockburn. He destroyed them all in embarrassment. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for my Thanksgiving gift :) These were particularly good this time - I very much like the grammar "what did they did". I will have to add that one to my collection.
ReplyDeleteOooh, happy Thanksgiving, Elizabeth! Glad you liked the post! I like the non-standard grammar of 'what did they did', too - I'd be tempted to use it if I wasn't a teacher...;-)
ReplyDeleteAh, so that's what happened to the photographs! Probably he did the same to all of those nude photos of Piers and Hugh.
ReplyDeleteSome of them (questions??) are just beyond belief. It would be funny, if it wasn't so sad!
ReplyDeleteSusan, oh my, that's a lovely thought... :-)))
ReplyDeleteClement, it never fails to amaze me what goes on in some people's heads! ;)
Seriously weird (again!).
ReplyDeletePerhaps whoever wrote the leaflet believed in reincarnation?
Ah, that explains the total lack of Varus battle photos as well. The few survivors who made it back to the Rhine deleted them from their camera chips.
ReplyDeleteAnd Arminius could never admit he got some Roman technology and hid the camera. It eventually became lost. Too bad.
Or possibly he posted the naked photos to Italy, to be picked up upon arrival. Naked pictures of men would be less remarked in Italy, after all - it had plenty already.
ReplyDeleteIt counts as living chastely if you're just looking at photos of naked men, right?
So William Wallace had a relationship with someone called Esabella? Maybe that's where this whole confusion started...
Carla, hehe, maybe! Or the ability to freeze sperm many centuries earlier than we thought, perhaps...?! :-)
ReplyDeleteGabriele, I think there are a few plot bunnies there. :)
Hannah, ohhhh, I definitely agree that merely looking at pics of naked men counts as chastity! And I'm sure you're right that Ed sent them on to Italy, to peruse at leisure. Hmmm, yes, presumably 'Esabella' is a completely different person to Isabella of France...