The letter did not have its intended effect. Therefore, once again, kneeling with humbleness of heart, because I am not suffered to bow the knees of my body, I humbly crave to speak with your Highness, which I would not be so bold as to desire if I knew not myself most clear, as I know myself most true. I pray to God the like evil persuasions persuade not one sister against the other, and all for that they have heard false report, and the truth not known. Once in the tower, Elizabeth wrote her sister a frantic, rambling letter, her usual composure lost to fear: “I never thought to have come in here as prisoner!” Elizabeth was arrested and sent to the ominous Tower of London, the same place her mother had been executed decades before. Leaders of the rebellion planned to put Elizabeth on the throne, and Mary believed that her sister had been part of the plot. In 1554, the Wyatt Rebellion was launched in reaction to Mary’s unpopular plan to marry the Catholic King Philip of Spain. The only child of King Henry VIII and the Catholic, saintly Catherine of Aragon, she had been the beloved heir to her father’s throne for much of her childhood. When Mary I finally inherited the throne of England in 1553, she had endured a lifetime of disappointments, heartbreaks and slights. Henry I died the following year, victorious over his brother even in death. Robert finally died in 1134, in Cardiff Castle, at the ripe old age of 80. “Woe to him that is not old enough to die,” he wrote during this long captivity. Robert was imprisoned for the next 28 years. In 1106, Henry beat his brother at the Battle of Tinchebray. His brother stopped sending the pension and invaded Normandy, restless after years of Robert’s mismanagement. It was agreed that no action would be taken against the Duke’s supporters.”īut Robert had been deceived. “Henry persuaded Robert to renounce his claim to England in return for a pension of 3,000 marks a year and the abandonment of any claim on Henry’s part to Normandy. “Robert headed towards London and was intercepted by Henry at Alton in Hampshire,” writes historian Richard Cavendish.
From Normandy, Robert raised an army and headed across the channel in July 1101.
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