David Starkey - Henry - Virtuous Prince

Virtuous Prince

DAVID STARKEY

To Mark Pigott

a fellow Henrician

First Plate Section

Henry VI, unknown artist, oil on panel, c .1540. National Portrait Gallery, London .

Edward IV, British school, oil on panel, 15th century. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Elizabeth Woodville, unknown artist, c .1465. By courtesy of the President and Fellows of Queens’ College Cambridge .

The Battle of Barnet, 1471 , English school, vellum, 15th century. Centrale Bibliotheek van de Universiteit, Ghent/The Bridgeman Art Library .

Richard, Duke of York and Edward V, from the Royal Window, Canterbury Cathedral. Woodmansterne/Topfoto .

Richard III, British school, oil on canvas, 1480–1500. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Lady Margaret Beaufort, unknown artist, oil on panel, second half 16th century. National Portrait Gallery, London .

Charles VIII of France, unknown artist, c .1485. Musée Condé, Chantilly/ akg- images .

Henry VII, unknown artist, oil on panel, 1505. National Portrait Gallery, London .

Elizabeth of York, unknown artist, oil on panel, late 16th century. National Portrait Gallery, London .

Arthur Prince of Wales, Anglo–Flemish school, c .1500. Hever Castle, Kent .

Ferdinand of Aragon, Spanish school, oil on panel, 15th century. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Isabella of Castile, Spanish school, oil on panel, 15th century. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Catherine of Aragon, by Michiel Sittow, c .1510. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/ akg- images/Erich Lessing .

Laughing Child, possibly Henry VIII, by Guido Mazzoni, painted and gilded terracotta, c .1498. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Old Greenwich Palace, c . early 17th century. Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (The National Trust) . © NTPL .

Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, English school, oil on panel, 16th century. Society of Antiquaries, London/The Bridgeman Art Library .

Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor, by Albrecht Dürer, oil on limewood, 1519. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/akg- images/Erich Lessing .

Perkin Warbeck, Flemish school, sanguine on paper, 16th century. Bibliothèque Municipale, Arras/The Bridgeman Art Library .

Second Plate Section

Four images from Writhe’s Garter Book , late 15th century, in the collection of The Trustees of the 9th Duke of Buccleuch’s Chattels Fund. By courtesy of the British Library .

Drawings I, III, V, VII, IX, XI and XIII from The Panorama of London by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, pen and ink and chalk on paper, c .1544. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/The Bridgeman Art Library .

The North-East View of Eltham Palace in the County of Kent , coloured engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1735. Eltham Palace, London/Copyright © English Heritage Photo Library .

The Family of Henry VII with St. George , unknown artist, c .1505–9. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

John Skelton, woodcut from an edition of Collyn Clout , his satirical poem of 1522. Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage Image Partnership .

Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger, chalk, c .1527. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Desiderius Erasmus, by Quinten Massys, oil on panel, 1517. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Philip I ‘The Fair’, Archduke of Burgundy and King of Castile, copy after the Master of the Magdalen Legend, oil on wood, c .1497. Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck/ akg- images/Erich Lessing .

Juana ‘The Mad’, Queen of Castile, by Juan de Flandes, oil on oakwood, c .1496. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/akgimages/ Erich Lessing .

The Round Table of King Arthur in the Great Hall at Winchester Castle. © 2004 Fortean/Healy/Topfoto .

Manuscript illustration of a joust between Jean Chalons and Loys de Beul at Tours in 1446, French school, mid-15th century. © The Board of Trustees of the Armouries/Heritage Image Partnership .

Images from Prince Henry’s Prayer Roll by kind permission of Ushaw College, Durham.

Third Plate Section

Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, by Daniel Mytens, oil on canvas, c .1620–38. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

James IV of Scotland, oil on panel, artist and date unknown. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh .

Mary Tudor, detail from a double portrait with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, after Clouet © By kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Bedford and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates .

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, by Bernart van Orley, oil on wood, c .1516. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest/akg- images .

Richmond Palace in the reign of Charles I , unknown artist, oil on canvas, c .1640. Society of Antiquaries of London .

Henry VII on his deathbed, from the Collections of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, early 16th century. British Library, Add.45131, f.54 .

Henry VIII, English school, oil on panel, c .1509. © The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, USA/The Bridgeman Art Library .

Coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, woodcut from A Joyfull Medytacyon to All Englonde by Stephen Hawes, 1509. Hulton Archive/Getty Images .

The Royal procession to Parliament at Westminster, detail from the Parliament Procession Roll of 1512, 17th-century copy. British Library, Add.22306, Section 6 .

Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, English school, oil on panel, 16th century. © Corpus Christi College Oxford/The Bridgeman Art Library .

William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Hans Holbein the Younger, chalk and wash, 1527. The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Flemish school, sanguine on paper, 16th century. Bibliothéque Municipale, Arras/The Bridgeman Art Library

Part of The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, showing Henry VIII jousting before Catherine of Aragon in 1511. The College of Arms, London .

Armour of Henry VIII, English, c .1514–15, with horse armour, probably Flemish, c .1515. © The Board of Trustees of the Armouries/Heritage Image Partnership .