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Mary Radcliffe (courtier)
Mary Radcliffe or Ratcliffe (1550-1617) was a courtier of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Radcliffe was born around 1550 in Elstow, Bedfordshire, one of four daughters and two sons of landowner and Member of Parliament Sir Humphrey Radcliffe and his wife Isabella Harvey. Life at court She became a Maid of Honour at court in 1561. Her father, Humphrey Radcliffe, is said to have "presented" her to Elizabeth on 1 January 1561 as if she were a New Year's Day gift. She is sometimes confused with her younger cousin, another maid of honour, Margaret Ratcliffe (d. 1599), since both were known as "Mistress Radcliffe". She had a stipend or wage of £40 yearly. In November 1565 she and the other maids were given gowns made by the queen's tailor Walter Fyshe of yellow satin with green velvet edges and chevrons, with silver lace, for the wedding of Ambrose, Earl of Warwick and Anne Russell. Similarly, in 1572 she and ten other maids and ladies of the chamber were given identical gowns made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtier
A courtier () is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty. The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the official residence of the monarch, and the social and political life were often completely mixed together. Background Monarchs very often expected the more important nobles to spend much of the year in attendance on them at court. Not all courtiers were noble, as they included clergy, soldiers, clerks, secretaries, agents and middlemen with business at court. All those who held a court appointment could be called courtiers but not all courtiers held positions at court. Those personal favourites without business around the monarch, sometimes called the camarilla, were also considered courtiers. As social divisions became more rigid, a divide, barely present in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, opened between menial servants and other classes at c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bed Curtains
Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided privacy when the master or great bed was in a public room, such as the Parlour, parlor, but also kept in warmth and showed evidence of wealth when beds were located in private areas of the home. When bedrooms became more common in the mid-1700s, the use of bed hangings diminished. Bed hangings were made of various fabrics, depending on the place, time period, and wealth of the owner. Fabrics included wool, cotton, linen, fustian, and, for those who could afford it, silk or velvet. Stitches were worked in wool or, for the rich or the nobility, silk and gold. Decorations on bed hangings also varied based on geography and time period. French hangings during the Renaissance might depict embroidered scenes from the Bible, mythology, or allegory. Hangings from the UK used floral, leaf, chinoiserie, and animal themes at various times, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Payne Collier
John Payne Collier (11 January 178917 September 1883) was an English writer and scholar. He was well known for publishing many books on Shakespeare. However, his reputation has declined as a result of the Perkins Folio forgery. Reporter and solicitor His father, John Dyer Collier (1762–1825), was a successful journalist, and his connection with the press obtained for his son a position on the ''Morning Chronicle'' as leader writer, dramatic critic and reporter, which continued until 1847; he was also for some time a reporter for ''The Times''. He was summoned before the House of Commons in 1819 for giving an incorrect report of a speech by Joseph Hume. He entered the Middle Temple in 1811, but was not called to the bar until 1829. The delay was partly due to his indiscretion in publishing the ''Criticisms on the Bar'' (1819) by "Amicus Curiae". Controversial Shakespearean scholar Collier's leisure was given to the study of Shakespeare and the early English drama. After some mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Hood
French hood is the English name for a type of elite woman's headgear that was popular in Western Europe in roughly the first half of the 16th century. The French hood is characterized by a rounded shape, contrasted with the angular "English" or gable hood. It is worn over a coif, and has a black veil attached to the back, which fully covers the hair. Unlike the more conservative gable hood, it displays the front part of the hair. In France it was known as a ("Breton hood"), after Anne of Brittany, Queen of France from 1491, and also the last reigning Duchess of Brittany. She wears it in portraits, including one in her Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany of 1503–1508, and her ladies are often also depicted wearing it. The French hood had a complicated and varied construction, with several layers of fabric, as well as jewels, wire, and perhaps metal bands. No examples survive, so aspects of its construction remain uncertain. History in England Although popularly associated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inventory Of Elizabeth I
The Inventory of Elizabeth I recorded the costume and gold and silver plate belonging to Elizabeth I in several inventories, and other documents, including rolls of New Year's Day gifts. Arthur Jefferies Collins published the ''Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I: The Inventory of 1574'' from manuscripts in 1955. The published inventory describes jewels and silver-plate belonging to Elizabeth with detailed references to other source material. Two inventories of Elizabeth's costume and some of her jewellery were published by Janet Arnold in ''Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlocke'd'' (Maney, 1988). Introduction In 1574 the office of the Jewel House was located in a two-storey building on the south side of the White Tower. This contained the records of the jewels and packing materials for sending jewels to court. The 1574 inventory was made by John Astley, Master and Treasurer of the Jewel House. The Master had an annual salary of £50 and was able to exact payments from goldsmith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Brothers (jewel)
The Three Brothers (also known as the Three Brethren'';'' German: ''Drei Brüder''; French: ''Les Trois Frères'') was a piece of jewellery created in the late 14th century, which consisted of three rectangular red spinels arranged around a central diamond. The jewel is known for having been owned by a number of important historical figures. After its commission by Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy, the jewel was part of the Burgundian crown jewels for almost 100 years, before passing into the possession of German banker Jakob Fugger. The Brothers were eventually sold to Edward VI and became part of the Crown Jewels of England from 1551 to 1643. They were worn prominently by Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. In the early 1640s, Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, attempted to sell the jewel to raise funds for the English Civil War, but it is unclear if she succeeded. Its whereabouts after 1645 remain unknown. Description The Three Brothers remained essentially unchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Parry
Blanche Parry (1507/8–12 February 1590) of Newcourt in the parish of Bacton, Herefordshire, in the Welsh Marches, was a personal attendant of Queen Elizabeth I, who held the offices of Chief Gentlewoman of the Queen's Most Honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's Jewels. Origins She was born at Newcourt, Bacton, Herefordshire, one of the daughters of Henry Myles of Newcourt, three times Sheriff of Herefordshire, Steward of Ewyas Lacy and of Dore Abbey, a relative of the Welsh family of Herbert, Earls of Pembroke, and a relative of the prominent Stradling family of St Donat's Castle in Glamorgan, Wales. Her mother was Alice Milborne, the English daughter and co-heiress of Simon Milborne. Her paternal ancestors were of prominent border gentry stock. Early life Brought up in a Welsh cultural environment, Parry was bilingual in Welsh and English. Indications exist of earlier family connections to the Lollards, not least her mother's family connection to Sir Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harefield Entertainment
The Harefield Entertainment included hospitality and performances for Elizabeth I of England in August 1602. Several copies of the performance script survive, probably written by John Davies, along with the original manuscript accounts of the Queen's host which seems to have been manipulated by literary forgery in the 19th-century to enhance their interest. Preparations Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper, bought Harefield Place, now in the London Borough of Hillingdon, from Sir Edmund Anderson in 1601. The Queen came to Harefield on 29 July 1602, as part of a short progress lasting two weeks. She stayed until 3 August. Egerton's bills for the entertainment and hospitality survive. Some speeches and drama were also recorded and printed. A "lottery" was performed in which gifts were presented to the ladies of the court as humorous rhyming couplets were recited. Modern critics emphasise the likely role of Egerton's wife, Alice, Countess of Derby in planning and devising the events. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, (c. 1540 – 15 March 1617), known as Lord Ellesmere or Lord Egert from 1603 to 1616, was an English Peerage of England, nobleman, judge and Politician, statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years. Early life, education and legal career Thomas Egerton was born in 1540 in the parish of Dodleston, Cheshire, England. He was the illegitimate son of Sir Richard Egerton and an unmarried woman named Alice Sparks from Bickerton, Cheshire, Bickerton. He was acknowledged by his father's family, who paid for his education. He studied Liberal Arts at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Oxford, and received a bachelor's degree in 1559. He then studied common law, law at Lincoln's Inn and was called as a barrister by 1572. He was a Roman Catholic, until a point in 1570 when his non-conformity with the Church of England became an issue with his Inn passing on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Howard, Countess Of Carrick
Elizabeth Howard (1564—1646) was an English aristocrat and courtier to Elizabeth I of England. Career She was a daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Catherine Carey. She was a maid of honour and lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, as was her sister Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare. She married Sir Robert Southwell (1563—12 October 1598) of Woodrising, Norfolk, on 17 April 1583. He was the son of Sir Thomas Southwell and his second wife Mary Mansell, a daughter of Sir Rice Mansell (1487–1559). Sir Thomas Southwell had a daughter with his third wife Nazareth Newton (d. 1583), another Elizabeth Southwell, who was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. She was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and mother of Walter Devereux, who married Sir Barentine Moleyns or Molyns of Clapcot. After Robert Southwell's death in October 1598 Elizabeth Howard was left "a rich widow", and there was a rumour she would marry Sir William Woodhouse of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Southwell (died 1598)
Sir Robert Southwell (1563–1598), of Woodrising, Norfolk, Woodrising, Norfolk, was an English politician. Robert was the son of Thomas Southwell (died 1568), Sir Thomas Southwell and his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir Rice Mansel. Thomas's third wife was Nazaret or Nazareth Newton. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1589–90 and Vice-Admiral of Norfolk from 1585 to 1598. He was a Member of Parliament, Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency), Guildford in 1597. Robert was an admiral in 1588 in the battle with the Spanish Armada, in command of the ''English ship Elizabeth Jonas (1559), Elizabeth Jonas''. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. In 1591 the Privy Council asked him, as Vice-Admiral, to adjudicate in the case of a Scottish ship belonging to an Edinburgh merchant Archibald Johnston wrecked on the coast of Norfolk. He died on 12 October 1598 at Woodrising, and was buried on 16 November at Woodrising church. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Southwell (courtier)
Elizabeth Southwell (1584–1631) was an English courtier who lived in Florence. She was a daughter of Sir Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard, and a granddaughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham. She was appointed maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth in 1599 to replace Margaret Ratcliffe, and joined the court in January 1600. She danced in the masque at the marriage of Anne Russell and Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester in June 1600. The other dancers, led by Mary Fitton, were Lady Dougherty (Dorothy Hastings), Mistress Carey, Mistress Onslow (Cordell Annesley), Bess Russell, Mistress Darcy, and Blanche Somerset. They wore skirts of cloth of silver, waiscoats embroidered with coloured silks and silver and gold thread, mantles of carnation taffeta, and "loose hair about their shoulders" which was also "curiously knotted and interlaced". Southwell also took part in the Harefield Entertainment in August 1602. She wrote an account of the death of Queen Elizab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
