Elizabeth Blount

That's him.

I was actually thinking maybe Henry FitzRoy and his mom, Bessie Blount, uh, Henry, Henry VIII's, uh, mistress, might be a good Patreon topic.

Oh, that would be.

Yeah.

The practice continued into the Tudor era with Henry V's son, Henry FitzRoy.

He was born in fifteen nineteen to Elizabeth Blount, a courtier of royal favor, and raised as an acknowledged child but not named heir.

In the fifteen thirties, Henry elevated FitzRoy to the Duke of Richmond and Somerset, bestowing military commands and court positions upon him.

Though never considered king, he served as Governor of Calais and a commander in France, showing how royal bastards could serve as instrumental diplomatic ambassadors.

Yes.

It's, it's his mistress, Elizabeth Blount, who gives birth to Henry FitzRoy, which of course means bastard son of the king, uh, and named for the king.

And this is, is sort of kept secret for a little while.

At first, we don't know a lot about the circumstances of the birth or his early years.

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in time as well.

So obviously, the big thing that is about to happen or maybe has happened, we can talk about the timing, but at some point over these years, Henry, who has had affairs, he's had an affair with Elizabeth Blount, obviously, to produce Henry FitzRoy.

He's had an affair with Mary Boleyn.

So it does create a scenario in my mind because, of course, Anne Boleyn refusing Henry, at her bed to henry the eighth um he's still in need of a sexual partner yeah so was mary put into a position of keeping his bed warm while her sister refused to to keep his bed so that's a horrible situation for um yeah because the more I looked at the evidence about Henry when I was researching um True Daughter the more I I really believed that Henry the Henry Kerry was also fathered by Henry VIII so it is it is um there's no question in my mind that Henry VIII fathered Catherine and I I like I say I've got little doubt now that Henry Kerry was also fathered by Henry VIII.

And he never formally acknowledged them, which is also interesting because the child of Elizabeth Blount, Henry Fitzroy, was sort of more or less acknowledged as his child.

Initially, she wasn't

married.