S10 E11 | Last Hope
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What is Margaret Beaufort’s plan for a royal pardon for Henry Tudor?
Friends, it's the penultimate episode of This Is History's Last Season with the Plantagenets. Now we're not going anywhere, but I want to tell you there are another nine seasons for you to consume, stretching all the way back to Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine's day. You can listen to them ad-free on Patreon. That's where you can also get another 130 bonus episodes where myself and my producers dig deeper into the history. Behind each episode. Like today's, where producer Al and I get stuck into the doubt about Henry Tudor's claims to the throne and ask whether we need to thank Richard III for accessible justice. Well, as long as you're not on his bad side. Now. On with the show. After this short break.
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Margaret Beaufort watches the clerk painstakingly writing out letters on the old sheet of parchment. Watching along is her husband, Thomas Stanley, the most powerful lord in North West England. The clerical office they've come to visit is buzzing with activity. Royal scribes are working on all sorts of documents property transfers, charters, confirmations of land titles you name it, they're at it. But as far as Margaret is concerned, nothing that's being written out here today is remotely as important as the document her clerk is working on. It's the draft of a royal pardon. person it excuses from all past misdemeanours is her son. The exile, Henry Tudor. Margaret hasn't seen her son for about a decade.
He's 24 now, a fully grown man, but she's never stopped thinking of him, or quietly fighting his corner. And today, his case is taking a huge step forward. Because the pardon that's being written is under the authority. of the plantagenate King of England. And it's with his royal approval that Henry is going to be protected from all legal action or political persecution. Once this has been done. The next steps will be to bring him home, then start integrating him into the ranks of the English nobility. Which is where? In Margaret's mind, at least. He has always belonged. The pardon is actually being drafted on the back of a 30-year-old document. That's the original grant which made Henry's dad, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, back in fourteen fifty two.
So it couldn't be clearer about what the direction of travel is. It's a program of political rehabilitation. First, the king's pardon. Second, Henry comes home and is made Earl of Richmond, but then There's something else in the works too. Behind the scenes, Margaret and her husband, Stanley. have been lobbying for Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, to marry into the royal family. They're gunning for the best marriage possible. The eldest available Yorkist princess is Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville's daughter, 16-year-old Elizabeth of York. If they can snag her, they would knit Henry directly into the royal family. it would be as close a thing to permanent immunity as possible. Margaret holds her breath as the clerk lays down his quill, then picks up his sealing wax and carefully fixes the king's seal to the document.
Then Elation. Floods through her. At long last, all her work to bring her son home has paid off. Only There's one
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is Margaret Beaufort’s plan for a royal pardon for Henry Tudor?
0:00–9:31
2
How does Edward IV’s death change the political landscape for Henry Tudor?
9:31–10:54
3
Why is Henry Tudor’s claim to the throne considered weak in 1482?
10:54–13:57
4
What role does the Duke of Buckingham play as a conspirator against Richard III?
13:57–20:59
5
How does the collapsed rebellion affect Henry Tudor’s chances?
20:59–26:26
6
What happens during Henry Tudor’s stormy landing that never materialises?
26:26–30:39
7
How does Richard III strike back in Parliament after the rebellion fails?
30:39–30:57