It wasn't at all unusual for women to die during childbirth or in the week or so afterwards. Understanding of human anatomy, let alone female anatomy, was dismal at best and sanitation measures were almost completely absent. Even in the modern era, childbirth remains a primary cause of death, worldwide, among women of childbearing age.
A mostly accurate video, just a few errors. Despite what The Tudors would have you believe, Jane was not considered attractive: she was called ‘fair’ because she had very pale white skin and blonde hair. Henry was attracted to Jane because she was very near the opposite of Anne Boleyn in many ways: Jane was blonde, meek, relatively uneducated, subservient and conservative while Anne was brunette, witty, educated, opinionated, feisty and open to new teachings in religion. Jane’s diet during her pregnancy was interesting: quail is rich in iron, Jane may have suffered from anemia, which definitely would have caused complications after a difficult delivery.
@@jenniferbreaux7385 believe it or not; those portraits actually were "flattering" . If you painted them with warts and all , your head may well be on the block. Holbein well understood his commission and painted that fat bastard as well as he could get away with. Before he himself got his own head lopped off . Elizabeth the first, was equally vain and vicious; ordering her portraits to be altered and to portray her no older than thirty. ( At even at which point, she was very ugly, even for her time. ) As for me. I ain't just good looking man; I'm something else.( Eddie Cochrane)
She most likely died from a postpartum infection after that long in labor and hand hygiene at the time. She could have had an embolism but a pulmonary embolism is difficult to treat even today and can be a cause of maternal death. The didn’t exactly have blood thinners like Heparin or Lovenox at the time. She also could have had a retained placenta. Most cause postpartum hemorrhage and I would think even at that time they might have known. If she did and the went in manually to extract it blood loss, and an infection would have been highly likely. Today even infection after a prolonged labor, retained placenta is common. Childbirth has made great strides but some of it remains dangerous still today. Another thing is women would have done better walking and keeping up with friends and bright rooms. When you get outside air and some exercise it also helps prevent many issues they had in causes of maternal death and infant deaths.
What is happening is that dramatisations by authors,film makers and others, is now being accepted as historical fact. To say it is just a little bit of poetical license, for the sake of entertainment,is the same as saying you have got a licence to lie.
The AI narrating this video needs some work. The pronunciation of courtier at the 6:50 mark and throughout the narrative, as QUARTER is distracting. Again at the 8:40 mark it is the plague, not the PLAG!!! The mispronunciations were significant. At the 13:44 and 14:00 marks, embolism, with the accent on the 2nd syllable, em-BOL-ism instead of the 1st is poor pronunciation. I prefer human voices.
Jane was not a beauty. Her sister was and was married quickly. But no one wanted to marry Jane since she had no significant dowry. Back then the courtiers would give royalty glow ups. And make them seem more beautiful than they really were in paintings. But what she did have was six brothers. And that’s all Henry cared about. And let’s not act like Henry was truly in love with her. From accounts, he would threaten her with a fate like Anne Boleyn. Since it took her 7 months to get pregnant and deliver Henry a son. When his past wives had gotten pregnant quickly after marriage.
How can jealousy cause a miscarriage? This is rubbish. The rest of this supposed history; There is no evidence whatsoever in any historical account of Anne Boleyn tearing off a necklace from Seymour's neck. It's all embellishment. It's easy to tell when you examine it. All the portraits of the time show them for what they looked like. And they were all pot ugly. Not beautiful at all. It's Hokum.
@@eilenekellogg-ki2br I don't think that standards of beauty change at all. It's clearly a sycophantic thing from court cling ons who know how to keep themselves safe. The language is beyond belief. Describing some of them as the most beautiful creature in the whole world. When their portraits make it clear they were anything but. You will also notice that most portraits of other women around the Renaissance were of great big fat women who were also described as beautiful. This really does have a comical reasoning behind it. The powers of the time believed that it was alright to paint unattractive nudes . ( So that the viewer would not be tempted to lust ) . So there's the reason for the apparent change in standards of beauty. Nobody even then found these portrayals as anything other than propostrous ;they were just too scared to say so at the time.
Though she was a peacemaker, she was also very politically astute and she did show jealousy of her former queen. She did play a part in the downfall of Anne. Does that mean she is evil? Nope. It means she was savvy but she was not innocent at all.
Read carefully, repeat slowly to yourself: The Tudors is not a documentary. If you believe in her being that completely innocent soul, having only the best interests of everyone around her in mind, putting herself back and having no self serving ambition she’d follow without much worries for those in her way it is pretty obvious you didn’t get your informations from historians. Although I surely don’t equal this channel with such and there’re things he didn’t fully right and was mislead, not to mention the embarrassing parroting of fairytales like that of the locked that has no valid sources and has been just as dismissed as the Flanders mare or Greensleeves tales which he probably parrots as well does not negate that she was no saintly damsel who didn’t look out for herself. She played the same game like Anne just differently. One can’t even say better since Anne had no influence on giving him his heir which was her downfall. Jane definitely took a less dangerous role of acting obedient and quiet though. So, you and him both seem to believe in unfounded bs you heard a little here and there but didn’t bother to actually do research on. If it comes to the throne of humbleness, caring for and helping others, and also caring for herself but without affecting others negatively it was his 4th wife Anna who can claim that.
It wasn't at all unusual for women to die during childbirth or in the week or so afterwards. Understanding of human anatomy, let alone female anatomy, was dismal at best and sanitation measures were almost completely absent. Even in the modern era, childbirth remains a primary cause of death, worldwide, among women of childbearing age.
A mostly accurate video, just a few errors. Despite what The Tudors would have you believe, Jane was not considered attractive: she was called ‘fair’ because she had very pale white skin and blonde hair. Henry was attracted to Jane because she was very near the opposite of Anne Boleyn in many ways: Jane was blonde, meek, relatively uneducated, subservient and conservative while Anne was brunette, witty, educated, opinionated, feisty and open to new teachings in religion.
Jane’s diet during her pregnancy was interesting: quail is rich in iron, Jane may have suffered from anemia, which definitely would have caused complications after a difficult delivery.
Exactly.👍🏻
Jane was considered attractive because she had 6 healthy brothers! It bode well for her giving Henry a male heir. That was her ATTRACTIVENESS!
I would love to see what they actually looked like. I haven't seen a single flattering portrait from this time period.
@@jenniferbreaux7385 believe it or not; those portraits actually were "flattering" . If you painted them with warts and all , your head may well be
on the block. Holbein well understood his commission and painted that fat bastard as well as he could get away with. Before he himself got his own head lopped off . Elizabeth the first, was equally vain and vicious; ordering her portraits to be altered and to portray her no older than thirty. ( At even at which point, she was very ugly, even for her time. )
As for me. I ain't just good looking man; I'm something else.( Eddie Cochrane)
She most likely died from a postpartum infection after that long in labor and hand hygiene at the time. She could have had an embolism but a pulmonary embolism is difficult to treat even today and can be a cause of maternal death. The didn’t exactly have blood thinners like Heparin or Lovenox at the time. She also could have had a retained placenta. Most cause postpartum hemorrhage and I would think even at that time they might have known. If she did and the went in manually to extract it blood loss, and an infection would have been highly likely. Today even infection after a prolonged labor, retained placenta is common. Childbirth has made great strides but some of it remains dangerous still today. Another thing is women would have done better walking and keeping up with friends and bright rooms. When you get outside air and some exercise it also helps prevent many issues they had in causes of maternal death and infant deaths.
What is happening is that dramatisations by authors,film makers and others, is now being accepted as historical fact. To say it is just a little bit of poetical license, for the sake of entertainment,is the same as saying you have got a licence to lie.
Interesting video, I enjoyed it ❤
The AI narrating this video needs some work. The pronunciation of courtier at the 6:50 mark and throughout the narrative, as QUARTER is distracting. Again at the 8:40 mark it is the plague, not the PLAG!!! The mispronunciations were significant. At the 13:44 and 14:00 marks, embolism, with the accent on the 2nd syllable, em-BOL-ism instead of the 1st is poor pronunciation. I prefer human voices.
Interesting subject matter, but the mispronunciations are irritating and distracting.
Mispronounces "courtier" throughout. Awkward.
I thought he was saying "quarters" at first.
Ai.I don’t subscribe to robots. This is a joke. Subscribe to real people narrating.
Yeah, I didn’t know the “plaaag” had been raging through London, not to mention that “em-BOWL-izzum” that may have caused Jane’s death!🤨
Jane was not a beauty. Her sister was and was married quickly. But no one wanted to marry Jane since she had no significant dowry. Back then the courtiers would give royalty glow ups. And make them seem more beautiful than they really were in paintings. But what she did have was six brothers. And that’s all Henry cared about. And let’s not act like Henry was truly in love with her. From accounts, he would threaten her with a fate like Anne Boleyn. Since it took her 7 months to get pregnant and deliver Henry a son. When his past wives had gotten pregnant quickly after marriage.
How can jealousy cause a miscarriage? This is rubbish.
The rest of this supposed history; There is no evidence whatsoever in any historical account of Anne Boleyn tearing off a necklace from Seymour's neck. It's all embellishment. It's easy to tell when you examine it. All the portraits of the time show them for what they looked like.
And they were all pot ugly. Not beautiful at all. It's Hokum.
Beauty standards change with each century.
@@eilenekellogg-ki2br I don't think that standards of beauty change at all. It's clearly a sycophantic thing from court cling ons who know how to keep themselves safe. The language is beyond belief. Describing some of them as the most beautiful creature in the whole world. When their portraits make it clear they were anything but. You will also notice that most portraits of other women around the Renaissance were of great big fat women who were also described as beautiful. This really does have a comical reasoning behind it. The powers of the time believed that it was alright to paint unattractive nudes . ( So that the viewer would not be tempted to lust ) . So there's the reason for the apparent change in standards of beauty. Nobody even then found these portrayals as anything other than propostrous ;they were just too scared to say so at the time.
They never seem to have eyelashes in the old paintings
Jane was my favorite. She was actually a peace maker. You're making her more scheming than she was.
Though she was a peacemaker, she was also very politically astute and she did show jealousy of her former queen. She did play a part in the downfall of Anne. Does that mean she is evil? Nope. It means she was savvy but she was not innocent at all.
Read carefully, repeat slowly to yourself: The Tudors is not a documentary.
If you believe in her being that completely innocent soul, having only the best interests of everyone around her in mind, putting herself back and having no self serving ambition she’d follow without much worries for those in her way it is pretty obvious you didn’t get your informations from historians.
Although I surely don’t equal this channel with such and there’re things he didn’t fully right and was mislead, not to mention the embarrassing parroting of fairytales like that of the locked that has no valid sources and has been just as dismissed as the Flanders mare or Greensleeves tales which he probably parrots as well does not negate that she was no saintly damsel who didn’t look out for herself. She played the same game like Anne just differently. One can’t even say better since Anne had no influence on giving him his heir which was her downfall. Jane definitely took a less dangerous role of acting obedient and quiet though.
So, you and him both seem to believe in unfounded bs you heard a little here and there but didn’t bother to actually do research on.
If it comes to the throne of humbleness, caring for and helping others, and also caring for herself but without affecting others negatively it was his 4th wife Anna who can claim that.