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Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son

6 reviews
Beverley A. Murphy

The History Press, 2004

The Lost Son
Among the more grandiose plans amongst the ministers of Henry VIII's administration was to legitimize Henry FitzRoy and marry him to his legitimate half-sister Mary (i.e. Bloody Mary). It has been rumored amongst historians that this idea was in fact direct from the King's mouth. According to 16th century standards, siblings who shared the same father (but perhaps not the same mother) were ...

Prince Henry the Navigator (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
C. Raymond Beazley

Dodo Press, 2007

A title by Charles Raymond Beazley, who was a British historian. He was Professor of History at the University of Birmingham from 1909 to 1933. He was educated at St Paul's School, King's College London and Balliol College, Oxford. His academic career was as a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, until his chair at Birmingham. Prince Henry was the third son of King John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty. He was interested in exploring ...

Prince Henry the Navigator

13 reviews
Peter Russell

Yale University Press, 2001

Great book, but don't take this one to the beach !!
Mr. Russell's book is superb in many ways: the prose is very elegant, even to a French speaking reader, the author's erudition is impressive and any amateur historian will find here a fascinating introduction to a side of European history which he or she is most unlikely to have been familiar with prior to acquiring Mr. Russell's book. That "the navigator" hardly ever set foot on a ship of any ...

Prince Henry The Navigator: The Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery 1394-1460 A.D.

Literature Treasure, 2008

This volume aims at giving an account, based throughout upon original sources, of the progress of geographical knowledge and enterprise in Christendom throughout the Middle Ages, down to the middle or even the end of the fifteenth century, as well as a life of Prince Henry the Navigator, who brought this movement of European Expansion within sight of its greatest successes. That is, as explained in Chapter I., it has been attempted to treat ...

Prince Henry Sinclair: His Expedition to the New World in 1398

1 review
Frederick Julius Pohl

Nimbus Pub Ltd, 1997

A Case for the discover of the Americas in 1398
Pohl takes the letters of the Italian navigator Zeno investigates his connection to Henry Sinclair. The theory is that Zeno helped Sinclair navigate to Newfoundland. Pohl's initial findings are in Zeno's letters themselves. In 1398, according to the Zeno narrative, Zeno sailed across the Atlantic with a "Prince of the Islands" (Sinclair). Pohl does some astonishing calligraphy detective work ...

Henry the Navigator: Prince of Portuguese Exploration (In the Footsteps of Explorers)
Lisa Ariganello

Crabtree Publishing Company, 2006

The Sinclair Saga: Exploring the Facts and the Legend of Prince Henry Sinclair

1 review
Mark Finnan

Formac, 2002

Okay for overview, not for serious interest in subject
I've recently been researching the links between 14th century Scotland, the Templar order, and Henry Sinclair's possible visit to the New World around 1400 -- not to "prove" that Oak Island contains a vast treasure protected by a secret society, but because of my interest in Henry's ties to Orkney and Norway. That said, I realize that most people will be reading the book for very different ...

Rheinsberg: Memorials of Frederick the Great and Prince Henry of Prussia: Volume 1
Andrew Hamilton

Adamant Media Corporation, 2004

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1880 edition by John Murray, London.

Prince Henry Revived: Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England

Paul Holberton Publishing, 2008

There can be few examples of more intensive fashioning and self-fashioning of a Renaissance figure than that of Prince Henry (1594-1612). This collection of essays re-examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural response to Prince Henry and presents many new findings in the context of recent scholarship. The investment of great hope in Prince Henry, and the extreme importance attached to the creation of a fitting image for him extending ...

Henry, Prince of Wales, and England's Lost Renaissance
Roy C. Strong

Thames & Hudson, 1986

When the eighteen-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales, died in 1612, the hopes of a new generation had been dashed. The young Prince, eldest son of James I and brother of the future Charles I, epitomized the yearning of those who wished England to lead Protestant Europe in a great crusade against the might of Catholic Spain. He embodied the aspirations of a new era in the arts, creating a court which, had he lived, would have rivalled those of the ...

The Myth of the Conqueror: Prince Henry Stuart : A Study of 17th Century Personation (Ams Studies in the ...

1 review
J. W. Williamson

AMS Press, 1978

The myth of Henry IX, the king who never was.
After the death of Elizabeth, James VI of Scotland was welcomed to the English throne by wildly jubilent subjects. Most of their joy came from relief over the smooth succession and the avoidance of the devastating civil war that many of the Virgin Queen's subjects anticipated with dread. Suddenly the nightmare of an uncertain succession was a thing of the past. Here was an experienced king, a ...

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