Black Tudors Flashcards

Flashcards covering key terms, figures, and concepts related to Black Tudors.

What is Baptism?

The Christian ceremony of sprinkling water on a person’s head to symbolise admission to the Christian church

Who were the Cimarrons?

Africans who had escaped Spanish captivity in the Caribbean and ‘New World’ and set up independent settlements

What is a Court?

The people and place surrounding a monarch, including advisers, ambassadors and ministers

What are Court records?

A primary source which records the proceedings in a court of law.

What is a Crafts(wo)man?

Somebody who makes their living from a skill or craft that they possess.

What is Ethiopian?

A term used to describe someone from Ethiopia, a country in Africa, sometimes used to denote anyone of African origin in Tudor times.

Who was Francis Drake?

Sailor, adventurer and privateer

What was the Golden Hinde?

The ship on which Francis Drake circumnavigated the world

What is an Inventory?

A list of goods.

What is a Labourer?

Someone who makes their living through manual (physical) labour.

What was the Mary Rose?

Flagship of Henry VIII, sunk in battle against the French in 1545.

What is a Neif?

A person who was bound to stay in a certain area of land, working and doing duties for a lord.

What does Rural mean?

Referring to the countryside

Who is a Seamstress?

A lady whose profession is sewing and the fixing/making of clothes

What are Surnames?

Second names often linked to a place, trade or identifying feature.

Who is a Venetian?

Someone from the city of Venice, a powerful, Italian city state in the middle ages.

What is the Westminster Tournament Roll?

A primary source giving information about a tournament held in 1511, it contains the first known image of a person of African descent in England.

What do Marriage Records suggest?

Suggest that Black Tudors intermarried freely with the rest of Tudor society.

What does the geography of Black Tudors reveal?

Records exist of people of African descent living all across England, in cities, towns and villages.

What was a draw for some, particularly those who were slaves under the Spanish and Portuguese to come to England?

That there was no slavery in England

Who was John Blanke?

Royal trumpeter and the first person of African descent for whom there is a portrait

Who was Mary Fillis?

Born in Morocco 1577, worked as a domestic servant then later as a seamstress

Who was Cattelena of Almondsbury?

Lived in a small village in Gloucestershire, she was a neif (unfree tenant) and likely an agricultural labourer

Who was Diego?

Mariner and sailor who escaped slavery under Spanish in 1572 by joining Francis Drake

Who was Jacques Francis?

Born 1528, diver, assisted in attempt to recover the Mary Rose

Who was Edward Swarthye?

Porter in rural Gloucestershire for Edward Wynter who whipped a white servant, John Guy, on Edward Wynter’s orders in 1596