Today in 1536, Anne Boleyn was starting to suspect that things were going badly for her, and she asked her chaplain, Matthew Parker, to watch over her daughter, Elizabeth, should anything happen to her.
It’s not clear what kind of role Parker played in raising Elizabeth, but she did make him Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559, and Parker told William Cecil that he likely would not have accepted had he not been so much bound to her mother. Probably his most famous saying, prompted by the arrival of Mary Queen of Scots in England, was “I fear our good Queen has the wolf by the ears”
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. Remember you can dive deeper into life in 16th century England through the Renaissance English History Podcast at englandcast.com where I have an article on a fascinating collaboration Matthew Parker did with Thomas Tallis to bring music to the Psalms, called the Parker Psalter.
Suggested links:
Musical Expression and Aliveness through the centuries: ORA and Many are the Wonders
Autumn 2018 Tudor Summit: Tudor Music as Propaganda
Tudor Music as Propaganda: Three examples
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.