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Article: Royalty, virtue, and adversity: the cult of King Henry VI.
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- Albion
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London amid disputed circumstances. Between his death and Henry VIII's break with Rome in the 1530s, he was venerated as a saint and martyr. Modern historians have generally dismissed this cult as a political phenomenon, created and used by the Tudors as they sought legitimacy. While there is some truth in that assessment, political allegiance was only a part of the impetus for the participation of Henry's devotees in the cult. Alongside carefully crafted (and perhaps, artificial) portrayals of Henry's virtues lay something else his former subjects found compelling: his very real political failures, and more ...
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Article: King Henry VI, Part I: Act IV, Scene I
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... ... Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ... presume to boast of gentle blood. KING HENRY VI: Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear ... such false dissembling guile? KING HENRY VI: What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt ...
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