#Again I haven't been able to track down the article or any primary source of Mortimer saying this so I could be misattributing it to him

[themidnightcircusshow]

"#And notably also insisting that Scrope was executed for the Southampton Plot because Henry V was homophobic#(because Scrope's defence was that he was just siding with the conspirator's so he could get information!)#(he was Henry's bed mate so obviously Henry must trust him! [Mortimer's argument beimg Henry killed him for saying they slept together])"

...he WHAT?! He's super weird about Scrope and insists he must be innocent because historians are "confused" about his role and he's the good kind of very religious (y'know, not like Henry V) and well, he said so! But I didn't know he'd gotten even more batshit about Scrope. 😩

I can't find it now, because google is the absolute worse, so keep in mind this is going entirely off memory and I could be wrong. But yeah, in an article I read, I recall it mentioning Ian Mortimer arguing that the reason why Scrope got the most 'humiliating' punishment was because Scrope used he and Henry sleeping together in his defense and Henry was furious at the affront to his masculinity.

Which, if true, is ahistorical to truly impressive proportions.

#Asked and Answered #Heartofstanding #Again I haven't been able to track down the article or any primary source of Mortimer saying this so I could be misattributing it to him #Or the article could have been wrong in its interpretations #This is the problem with researching things for fun I'm not nearly as strict about keeping track of my sources #Also I read some of Year of Glory to see if it was from that (it wasn't) but oh my gosh if this is one of the most 'readable historians'... #And the way he says with such certainty that we know the charges of the conspirators trying to kill the King and his brothers was false #(do we? Do we know this? You haven't given a reason WHY we know this?) #And that historians are 'intoxicated by Henry's greatness' #I am used to academic mudslinging but that's beyond