Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and
scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The
peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and
fall and rise again in the centuries before the Battle of Bosworth have,
however, received far less attention.
Based on both published and manuscript
sources from Britain and France, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty tries to set
the record straight by providing the only coherent and authoritative account of
the ancestors of the Tudor royal family from their beginnings in North Wales at
the start of the 13th century, through royal English and French connections in
the 15th century, to Henry Tudor's victory at Bosworth Field in 1485.
This book is quoted many times in most of
what I have been reading. I guess I am becoming
entrenched in Tudor History. I have read
so much recently but it all comes down to reading another one just to make
sure. Most of the authors begin with
saying that nothing was recorded about this period so it is based on their
investigations from the same historical evidence (minimal) as many others have
used. Then it is recorded from their own
perceptions of where the participants were at any given occasion, often with
the women they don't really even know that.
So getting to the actual truth about anything, (shown even by finding the remains of Richard III
which was based on centuries of knowing
nothing until someone spent decades on finding the exact, spot) is probably
minimal.
I thoroughly enjoyed it anyway.
Roybn S.
