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111 The ceremonial demonstration of monarchical authority as it was portrayed by Mary’s coronation, as powerful as it may have been, did not end the debate about female sovereignty. The nature of sixteenthcentury gynecocracy was such that a symbolic demonstration by itself was not enough. Questions about the nature, extent, and definition of a regnant queen’s authority continued to exist throughout Mary’s reign, perhaps most particularly when she began to contemplate the subject of marriage. The idea that Mary was both king and queen might have been accepted more widely had she remained single.
Finally, he was crowned with St. 68 Thus crowned and enthroned once more on the stage, or siege royal, the king received the homage of the spiritual and temporal peers of the realm. Queen consorts were crowned following a similar but truncated version of the king’s coronation. 71 She was crowned with what was believed to be the crown of Edith, wife to St. ” At the conclusion of the ceremony, after the mass was completed, St. Edward’s and St. Edith’s crowns were placed on the altar, and the regalia were delivered to the abbot of Westminster, who would hold them in safekeeping until the next coronation.
15 Creating Knights of the Bath The following day, Friday, September 29, “according to auntient customs,” the queen appointed a number “of the most able persons and honorable blood and of auntient howses . . 19 The ceremony of creation then took place, during which the sovereign would instruct two of his lords to put spurs on the heels of the candidate; then the king would fasten the sword around the esquire and dub him knight. 24 Each esquire’s sword was then delivered to “my Lorde Chamberleyn knelinge next to the quene, and the quene dyd take the sworde and dyd gyred yt abowte the sayd knights,” as tradition demanded.