[MR] BBC: Mary Rose Sailor's Face Reconstructed

[Groff, Garth (ggg9y)]

M'Lady Kateryn,

Yes, apparently there were a lot of mercenary sailors in English service. One of the 35 survivors was Flemish. AFAIK, Spain and England still had good relations, despite Henry's break with Rome and his divorce from Catherine. What you probably wouldn't find would be a Frenchman, but I'm sure even a few of them somehow found a way into the English navy.

Yours Aye,

Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard Lodge
Read "The Tale of Mungo Napier":
http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/napier1.html




From: Marybeth Lavrakas [mailto:katrous at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:45 AM
To: Groff, Garth (ggg9y); atlantia at atlantia.sca.org; isenfir at atlantia.scalists.org
Subject: Re: [MR] BBC: Mary Rose Sailor's Face Reconstructed

Another interesting tidbit, it appears that many of the sailors on the Mary Rose at the time of its sinking were not English, but Spanish! No wonder an officer claimed he had the 'sort of knaves' he could not rule...

Kateryn Rous