In today's Claire Chats I discuss Ethelreda Malte, the theory that she was fathered by Henry VIII and the evidence used to back up the theory.
Sources mentioned
- Jones, Philippa (2009) The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards, Chapter 9.
- Weir, Alison (2011) Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore, p.156-158.
- The Six Wives and Many Mistresses of Henry VIII, p.228-229.
- Harington, Sir John, Nugæ Antiquæ: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers, in Prose and Verse..., p. viii - see https://archive.org/stream/nugantiqubeinga04harigoog#page/n12/mode/2up
- Scott-Warren, Jason. “Harington, John (c.1517–1582).” Jason Scott-Warren In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
- Emerson, Kate (2014) Royal Inheritance, p.339.
- May 1541 grant - Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 16, 1540-1541, 878:41 - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol16/pp409-429
- July 1544 grant - Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 19 Part 1, January-July 1544, 1035:109 - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol19/no1/pp596-651
- Sept 1546 grant - Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 21 Part 2, September 1546-January 1547, 200:33 - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol21/no2/pp70-100
- Lands sold by the crown January 1547 - Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 21 Part 2, September 1546-January 1547, 712:xv - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol21/no2/pp362-378
- The quote from Harington's letter: “we will continue to suffer, and rest ourselves in God, whose mercy is sure and safe, and in all true love to her (the princess Elizabeth, who doth honour us in tender sort, and scorneth not to shed her tears with ours.” can be found in Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England Vol V.