Began their CATHARINE, QUEEN OF HENRY V. There is a Reigns. portrait of her, in the family of Henry, in the first volume of the "Anecdotes of Painting;" but there is little or no reason to believe it authentic: it may, however, serve as a memorial. CATHARINE, QUEEN OF HENRY V. in Harding's Shakspeare. S. Harding sc. Catharine was daughter of Charles VI. of France, and Isabel his queen. Henry, when he first saw her, at the treaty of Melun, was instantly struck with her beauty. It is probable that she was brought thither to captivate the conqueror of her father's kingdom. This princess, who, after the death of Henry, was regarded as dowager of England and France, did not disdain to mix the rose and lily of these kingdoms with the Welsh leek, by descending to a marriage with Owen Tudor, a gentleman of a fine person and address, whom she fell in love with at Windsor, where he attended the court.* EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, son to Henry VI. from a drawing in the British Museum. S. Harding sc. in Harding's Shakspeare. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, WITH LADY ANNE AND RICHARD III. &c. in Strutt's "Regal Antiquities," plate xlviii. * In the annotations subjoined to Drayton's epistle from Owen Tudor to Queen Catharine, is the following passage: "Owen Tudor, being a courtly and active gentleman, commanded once to dance before the queene, in a turne (not being able to recover himselfe), fell into her lap, as she sat upon a little stoole, with many of her ladies about her."t Sir John Wynne tells us, that “Queen Catharine, being a French woman borne, knew no difference between the English and Welsh nation; until, her marriage being published, Owen Tudor's kindred and countrey were objected to disgrace him, as most vile and barbarous, which made her desirous to see some of his kinsmen. Whereupon he brought to her presence, John ap Meredith, and Howell ap Llewelyn ap Howell, his neare cosens, men of goodly stature and personage, but wholely destitute of bringing up and nurture; for when the Queen had spoken to them in diverse languages, and they were not able to answer her, she said they were the goodliest dumbe creatures that ever she saw."-"Hist. of the Gwedir Family," p. 69. + The gentlemen sat on high chairs, the ladies before them on low stools:--this fashion, so unlike modern manners, continued throughout the reign of James I.—Lord Hailes. Edward, prince of Wales, was the only child of King Henry and Began Queen Margaret, and had an hereditary interest in the quarrel of his their Reigns. own house with that of York. After the battle of Hexham, he fled with his unfortunate mother into a forest; where, after being plundered, and observing another robber approach her with his naked sword, she courageously advanced to meet him, and, presenting the young prince, said, "Here, my friend, I commit to your care the safety of your king's son." The trust was duly honoured by the man, who afforded the royal fugitives every assistance in his power. Prince Edward afterward married Lady Anne, daughter of the Earl of Warwick. He was murdered at Tewkesbury, Anno 1471, in the 18th year of his age. HENRY VI. Vertue sc. h. sh. Painted on board, in the palace of Kensington. His character is alluded to in the ornaments. HENRICUS VI. &c. Coll. Regalis Cantab. A°. 1441. Fundr. Faber f. large 4to. mezz.In the "Anecdotes of Painting," is a print of his marriage, engraved from an ancient picture at Strawberry Hill. In the Hora Beata Maria Virginis totius anni secundum Novem Sarum. Paris, per Fr. Regnault, 1535, is a prayer to Saint Henry (Henry VI.) together with his portrait. HENRY VI. whole length. F. Bartolozzi sc. HENRY VI. whole length, painted on glass, in King's College, Cambridge. Bretherton sc. HENRY VI. in Harding's Shakspeare. W. N. Gardiner sc. HENRY VI. with a view of King's College, in Wilson's 'Cambridge," 8vo. E. Harding, 1801. HENRY VI. in Hume's "England," 1803, 8vo. Rhodes sc. HENRY VI. in " Royal and Noble Authors," by Park. Bocquet sc. HENRY VI. &c. R. E. sculpsit. Compton Holland. Began their HENRY VI. kneeling, holding a chalice. T. Cook sc. Reigns. prefixed to the Paston, Letters, 4to. Aug. 3, 1422. A monk's cowl would have fitted this prince's head much better than a crown. He was a king only in name; and may be said to have reigned under his queen, a woman of a martial spirit. He lost his father's acquisitions in France; a great part of which, to the reproach of the English, was retaken by an army headed by a woman, sprung from the dregs of the people. In the civil war between the Yorkists and Lancastrians in this reign, the greater part of the nobility fell in the field, or by the hand of the executioner; and the throne itself was at length overturned by the prevailing faction. The king is said to have been murdered by Richard, duke of Glou cester. MARGARET, QUEEN OF HENRY VI. in Harding's Shakspeare. N. Scheneker sc. The MARGARETA, HEN. VI. uxor, &c. Coll. Regina MARGARET, QUEEN OF HEN. VI. holding a crown in one hand, and a truncheon in the other, 4to. MARGARET, with a view of Queen's College, in Wilson's "Cambridge." E. Harding, 1801. It is to be questioned, whether either of these portraits of Margaret be of any authority. There is a figure of her in Montfaucon's "Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise." This perhaps, with some, may be still questionable; but it is natural for antiquaries to consider every thing as authentic, which is of undoubted antiquity. The heroic, but unfortunate Margaret, was ever vigilant and active, while the king her husband slumbered upon the throne. She knew how to act the part of a general as well as that of a queen; and deserved to wear the crown which was wrested from her. JOHN, duke of Bedford, regent of France; Vertue sc. h. sh. From a curious limning, in a rich MS. "Common-Prayer Book," presented by himself to King Henry the Sixth, in the possession of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland. JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD, in Harding's Shaks- Began peare. S. Harding sc. The Duke of Bedford, who was regent of France in the minority of Henry VI. was one of the most valiant and accomplished princes of his age. He was second brother to Henry V. and nearly resembled that hero in every thing but his good fortune; which was forced to yield to that of Joan of Arc, an enthusiastic visionary, who caused the English to raise the siege of Orleans, and soon after to evacuate their conquests in France. Ob. 14 Sept. 1435. HUMPHREDUS, dux Glocestriæ, in fenestrâ ecclesiæ de Greenwich, in Agro Cantiano; a head-piece in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library, over the letter K. HUMPHREY, duke of Gloucester. W. N. Gardiner sc. from the original at Strawberry Hill for Harding's Shakspeare. HUMPHREY, duke of Gloucester. Gerimia sc. in HUMPHREY, duke of Gloucester, in the " Oxford Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, commonly called the Good, was youngest brother to Henry V. and the first founder of the university library in Oxford, which was pillaged of the greatest part of its books, in the reign of Edward VI. Grafton has recorded a remarkable instance of his sagacity.* A fellow, who affirmed that he was born blind, pretended to have received his sight at St. Alban's shrine. The duke had the curiosity to examine him; and asked of what colour his gown was, and the colours of several other things in the room. He told him the several colours without a moment's hesitation; and the duke, with as little hesitation, ordered him to be set in the stocks as an impostor. This prince's vault, in which his body was preserved in a kind of pickle, was discovered at St. Alban's in the year 1703. Ob. 1447. EDMOND OF LANGLEY, duke of York. R. Clamp sc. from a limning in the British Museum, in Harding's Shakspeare. * Vol. ii. p. 598. their Reigns. Began their Reigns. Edmond Plantagenet (surnamed De Langley, from the place of his birth) was the fifth son of King Edward III. who, by his father, was first created Earl of Cambridge in the thirty-sixth year of his reign; and afterward by his nephew, Richard II. duke of York. He was a person of much valour and conduct in the field, and of great honour in the cabinet. He endeavoured strenuously to support King Richard against Henry of Lancaster. When Henry obtained the throne, he retired from the court, and died at his manor of Langley, where he was interred, 1402. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, duke of York. E. Harding sc. in the south window of Penrith Church, Cumberland. Richard succeeded his uncle Edward as duke of York; and, having been restored to his paternal honours by King Henry VI. (forfeited by his father's treason) soon became one of the most powerful subjects of the day, in estate, dignities, descent, and alliance; and, supported by the family of the Nevils (having married the daughter of Ralph, earl of Westmorland, grand-daughter of John of Gaunt), and other great nobles, boldly urged his pretensions to the crown, which he was on the point of obtaining, when death put an end to his ambitious career at the battle of Wakefield, 1460. JAQUELINE, duchess de Gloucester; a small head. JACOBA, Hertogen van Bayeren, &c. Jacob Folkema sc. 1735, h. sh. A fine head; and it has for its companion, Frank Van Boiselem, her fourth husband. There are several other prints of her; but that fine ancient one, after John Van Eyck, the inventor of painting in oil, is too considerable to be unnoticed. It is a large h. sh. without the name of the engraver. Jaqueline, who was daughter and heir of William VI. of Bavaria, earl of Hainault, was first married to John of France, dauphin of Vienne, son of Charles VI.; next to John, duke of Brabant, cousingerman to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. As she lived in no harmony with her second husband, she suffered herself to be carried into England, under a pretence of force; where she was soon married to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester. This marriage embroiled |