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Elizabeth Wayte. Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG (died 3 March 1542) was an illegitimate son of the English king Edward IV, half-brother-in-law of Henry VII, and an uncle of Henry VIII, at whose court he was a prominent figure and by whom he was appointed Lord Deputy of Calais (1533–40). [1] The survival of a large collection of ...
Jan 18, 2016 · Arthur Plantagenet -not quite royal and not a traitor. Who would have thought that Henry VIII had a maternal uncle whom he loved very much. He once said that Arthur had the kindest heart of anyone he knew. Arthur Plantagenet was Elizabeth of York’s illegitimate half-brother. His mother was Elizabeth Lucie or Lucy or possibly Wayte.
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Mar 3, 2020 · From Arthur and Honor the world has the Lisle Letters. Because they were stationed in Calais, Arthur and Honor had to conduct most of their court and day-to-day business via letters to England. Their letters were seized in 1540 when Arthur, then roughly 65 to 70 years old, was arrested with a group of other Calais officials for treason.
Arthur was married on 12 November 1511, to Elizabeth Grey (d. 1529), daughter of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (d. 1492). She was the widow of Edmund Dudley, treasurer to King Henry VII, who had been executed in 1510 by Henry VIII. The following day, the king granted Arthur some of the Dudley estates which had come to the crown due to Dudley ...
The Lisle Letters' Wallace T. MacCaffrey In the late spring of 1540 Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle, deputy of Calais, was summoned to court and, shortly after his arrival, arrested and sent to the Tower. Orders were sent to Calais to impound his papers. Lisle was caught up as a victim
to good purpose. Some years ago I argued that Lord Lisle, Sir Arthur Plantagenet, in his exile at Calais, had played a major part in bringing down Thomas Cromwell (Albion, 1977). On first opening The Lisle Letters I saw that Miss St. Clare Byrne made the same argument with out nodding in my direction, claiming originality for her thesis. My
The Lisle Letters In 1940, poet T. S. Eliot, then a London editor, commissioned historian Muriel St. Clare Byrne to undertake the first annotated edition of England's illuminating 16th-century Lisle Letters - the personal and official correspondence of Arthur Plantagenet (Viscount Lisle), his wife, and his friends. The product of
