{"id":905,"date":"2009-01-07T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:13:02","slug":"picture-of-the-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/picture-of-the-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the Week #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudorhistory.org\/potw\/010709.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tudorhistory.org\/potw\/010709-sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Panorama of the outer ward of Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. May 2003. Click on the photo for a larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It seemed appropriate to start the Picture of the Week with the birthplace of the first Tudor monarch &#8211; Henry VII.<\/p>\n<p>The first castle on the site dates back to the last 11th century, but the earliest stone buildings date to the late-12th to early-13th century when William Marshall became the Earl of Pembroke. The impressive Great Tower (the round tower at the left of the photo) dates to that period.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-15th century, the earldom and castle became the property of Jasper Tudor, half-brother to King Henry VI and it was in 1457 that the young, recently-widowed Margaret Beaufort gave birth to Henry Tudor, her only child, in her brother-in-law&#8217;s castle. The tower to the far right of the photo is known as Henry VII&#8217;s tower, since he is thought to have been born in a room in that section of the castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panorama of the outer ward of Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. May 2003. Click on the photo for a larger version. It seemed appropriate to start the Picture of the Week with the birthplace of the first Tudor monarch &#8211; Henry VII. The first castle on the site dates back to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/picture-of-the-week-1\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}