Talk:John Blanke

white hand
why does he have a white hand? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.179.153 (talk) 19:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

He's probably wearing gloves. A number of Tudor period illustrations show people with weirdly different color hands (including non human colors like red and yellow), but in high detail portraits, you can see buttons at the wrist and tell it's a tight-fitting leather glove. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awibs (talk • contribs) 20:14, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Was he black?
This is just speculation that he was black. Could he not just have been, as is suggested, that he came with Catherine of Aragon, simply from Andalusia, where people are often very dark and would appear black to Tudor England? Rustygecko (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2020 (UTC)


 * It is just speculation to say that the people of Andalusia would appear black to people back then, it is speculation to propose a massive woke conspiracy to pretend that black people existed. As well he was in the employ of Catherine of Aragon, who probably employed a black trumpeter as did many medieval monarchs in this period are known to have done so.2601:140:9500:7F00:699D:4E9D:5420:FB9C (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

2603:8001:B840:8B82:F1B6:755B:D048:CAAE (talk) 07:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)I don't think he was black at all. Probably just had a swarthy complexion. Also, there's no explanation of how he got to England. Black africans don't just magically show up in England playing the trumpet

This article is not fact based, its pure speculation, it's just Woke anti-white racist propaganda


 * White supremacist2601:140:9500:7F00:699D:4E9D:5420:FB9C (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

-- Wow, the above commentary is hilariously revisionist and racist. There's literally scores of documented black people working in Tudor England - payrolls, parish records, illustrations, formal portraits.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/these-africans-were-in-the-uk-before-the-british-exploration-of-africa https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-missing-tudors-black-people-in-16th-century-england.191029/

I was going to come here to ask about how to fix one of the minor citations in the "fictional portrayals" section - because I'm not sure what constitutes a better source than the IMDB listing to the show in question. Turn on the episode, watch, he's there. No one wrote an academic article about the existence of the episode. But apparently all this "NEEDS BETTER CITATION" screaming is just modern racists trying wish black people out of history and apparently even out of television.

Y'all are seriously trying to disagree with the UK national archives and multiple UK museums and foundations. I don't know what better sources you need when a country is trying to tell it's own history using original documents. I'm so sorry it makes you uncomfortable that black people exist.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/early_times/blanke.htm https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/john-blanke/

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Awibs (talk • contribs) 20:09, 19 February 2022 (UTC)