QUEENSHIP AND POWER Series Editors: Carole Levin and Charles Beem This series brings together monographs and edited volumes from scholars specializing in gender analysis, women s studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. In addition to works describing European queenship, it also includes books on queenship as it appeared in other parts of the world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. Editorial Board Linda Darling, University of Arizona (Ottoman Empire) Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University (Spain) Dorothy Ko, Barnard College (China) Nancy Kollman, Stanford University (Russia) John Thornton, Boston University (Africa and the Atlantic World) John Watkins (France and Italy) Published by Palgrave Macmillan The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History By Charles Beem Elizabeth of York By Arlene Naylor Okerlund Learned Queen: The Imperial Image of Elizabeth I By Linda Shenk High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations Edited by Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe By Sharon L. Jansen The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I By Anna Riehl Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch By Ilona Bell Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth By Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen By Catherine Loomis
Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe By William Layher The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I Edited by Charles Beem The French Queen s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe By Erin A. Sadlack Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners By Retha M. Warnicke A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I By Rayne Allinson Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England By Lisa Benz St. John Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England s First Queen By Sarah Duncan The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440 1627 By Kavita Mudan Finn Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship By Jo Eldridge Carney Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare By Sid Ray The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood s Itinerarium ad Windsor Edited by Charles Beem and Dennis Moore Queenship in Medieval Europe (forthcoming) By Theresa Earenfight Queenship in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming) By Charles Beem
T HE NAME OF A QUEEN WILLIAM FLEETWOOD S ITINERARIUM AD WINDSOR E d ited by C ha rles B eem a n d D e n n is Moo re
THE NAME OF A QUEEN Copyright Charles Beem and Dennis Moore, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-27201-0 All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-44476-2 ISBN 978-1-137-27202-7 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9781137272027 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The name of a queen : William Fleetwood s Itinerarium ad Windsor / edited by Charles Beem and Dennis Moore. pages cm. (Queenship and power) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Fleetwood, William, 1535? 1594. Itinerarium ad Windsor. 2. Queens Great Britain Early works to 1800. 3. Authority Early works to 1800. I. Moore, Dennis, 1952 author, editor of compilation. II. Beem, Charles, author, editor of compilation. III. Fleetwood, William, 1535? 1594. Itinerarium ad Windsor. DA28.2.N36 2013 320.942 dc23 2012043806 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: April 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS Introduction: The Name of a Queene 1 Dennis Moore Pa r t I T he D i a log ue 1 William Fleetwood s Itinerarium ad Windsor 19 Edited by Dennis Moore Pa r t II T he Pa r t ic ipa nt s 2 William Fleetwood and Itinerarium ad Windsor 63 Charles Beem 3 Itinerarium ad Windsor and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 85 Jacqueline Vanhoutte 4 Marveilously Given to Be Antiquaries : William Fleetwood s Itinerarium and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst 105 Rivkah Zim Pa r t III Itinerarium ad Windsor as History 5 Wading in The Troublesome Seas... of Antiquityes : William Fleetwood as Antiquary and Historian 127 James D. Alsop 6 Itinerarium ad Windsor and English Queenship 155 Carole Levin and Charles Beem 7 Bloody Mary? Changing Perceptions of England s First Ruling Queen 175 Sarah Duncan Select Bibliography 193 Notes on Contributors 19 9 Index 2 01