Identity area
Reference code
SJLM/9/2/2
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJLM/9/2/2
Title
Reception of Philip, King of Castile
Date(s)
- 1505-1506 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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(1469-1535)
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Three page account of the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile near Windsor on 31 January 1505. The description may have been written by or for John Fisher for Lady Margaret. The account includes a description of archers shooting for the two Kings. It ends with narrator telling Lady Margaret (`Madame... your grace') that Holt will tell her fuller detail about the decoration of royal rooms and persons .
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Publication note
Printed:
- Eagle Vol 15. (Lent 1889) pp. 336-339 https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1880s/1889/Eagle_1889_Lent.pdf
- Gairdner, J. Memorials of Henry VII. (London: Longman, 1858). pp. 282-303.
Notes area
Note
Lady Margaret's household accounts refer to these events:
- after 16 March 1506 6 s 8 d paid to the vice chamberlain in reward to `one that brought a book to my lady grace of the coming of the king of Castile [SJLM/1/1/3/2 p. 103]
- 15 April 1506 paid to John Holte for riding to Richmond and other places on my lady's message 2d.
- 18 April to the vice-chamberlain in reward to one Smerte that brought a book to my lady grace of the coming of the king of Castile and Edmund de la Pole [SJLM/1/1/3/2 p. 108]. John Fisher was cross-bearer to the Archbishop of Canterbury at a mass for the two kings.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former ref.
D105.162
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Name access points
- Henry VII, King of England (Subject)
- Fisher, John (1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester (Subject)
- Philip I, King of Castile (Subject)