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24 Jun 2026 Conversations with Tyler Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
“Certainly, before he’s Henry VII, when he’s making waves in Europe and threatening invasion and stuff, Richard III calls him Henry Tydder, as, I think, a way of undermining him as a leader to whom people might flock, making fun of this very Welsh name that he has.”
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- 24 Jun 2026
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…How did it matter that the Tudors were Welsh? Well, in a couple of different ways, it matters that the Tudors were Welsh. Partly, it’s to do with the precarity of the Tudor dynasty. They didn’t have a very strong claim to the throne, and their roots were used against them. Certainly, before he’s Henry VII, when he’s making waves in Europe and threatening invasion and stuff, Richard III calls him Henry Tydder, as, I think, a way of undermining him as a leader to whom people might flock, making fun of this very Welsh name that he has. It’s certainly the case, and some very good work has been done on this, that they didn’t use the name Tudor in the Tudor period. That’s us doing that. That was something of which they were ashamed and didn’t make reference to. Henry was known as Henry of Richmond before he became Henry VII, and there wasn’t the sense of a Tudor dynasty, this name, until much, much, much later. That’s something we impose on them. As the Reformation is approaching, in England with the common people, is Catholicism declining in popularity, or it’s just the same? Is there any great outcry for getting rid of the church?…
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