King Henry VIII

Standard Name: Henry VIII, King
Used Form: Henry the Eighth

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth's father, Sir Goddard Oxenbridge of Brede Place, Sussex, was knighted by Henry VIII at his coronation. He died, as a pious Catholic, in the same year as his wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Butts
His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake
Fictionalization Anne Askew
Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press.
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John Foxe gave it a still wider...
Friends, Associates Margaret Roper
As a child Margaret knew at least by correspondence some of the most distinguished men in Europe, including her father's friend Desiderius Erasmus , who chose her as the dedicatee of his Commentary on the...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Mathers
The title comes from the chorus of the well-known song Greensleeves, which is popularly supposed to have been written by Henry VIII .
Literary Setting Claire Luckham
This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years...
Literary Setting Jean Plaidy
The first addresses the ever-fascinating question of how a girl-child whom nobody wanted could have developed into a potential queen regnant. The latter, called a moving account of a moving tragedy, takes the classic view...
Literary Setting Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk , The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England : An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature...
Literary Setting Agnes Strickland
Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer and more recently by Harriet Lee and her sister ). AS 's pilgrims who...
names Catharine Parr Traill
The family derived CPT 's given names from Henry VIII 's final wife , an intellectual and writer who was closely involved in the foundation of the Church of England. An ancestral connection was alleged.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
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Occupation Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr 's marriage to Henry VIII (on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...
politics Margaret Roper
Thomas More 's opposition to Henry VIII 's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...
politics Katherine Parr
Henry VIII told KP he objected to being taught by my wife.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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politics Katherine Parr
The day after Anne Askew was executed, Henry agreed at KP 's persuasion to halt the religious persecutions: two men in the Tower under the same Act were released and no more were burned.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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Publishing Lucy Toulmin Smith
In additon, LTS provided two reviews for the English Historical Review. One was of Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem by J. Delaville le Roulx , and the other...

Timeline

1536: Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the...

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1536

Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales; 560 institutions were suppressed by November 1539.

October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...

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October 1536

The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII 's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England ), spread across the...

1538: Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian...

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1538

Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian document whose first provision was that an English bible should be made available in every parish church.

12 July 1539: With Henry VIII's personal support, an Act...

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12 July 1539

With Henry VIII 's personal support, an Act came into force establishing Six Articles of Religion for the Church in England (still at this date the Catholic Church ) to subscribe to.

1540: Henry VIII amalgamated the companies of surgeons...

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1540

Henry VIII amalgamated the companies of surgeons and barbers as the Company of Barber-Surgeons .

19 July 1545: A state-of-the-art warship, the Mary Rose,...

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19 July 1545

A state-of-the-art warship, the Mary Rose, sank off Portsmouth while being demonstrated to Henry VIII and a large gathering of eminent people.

28 January 1547: King Henry VIII died, and the youngest of...

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28 January 1547

King Henry VIII died, and the youngest of his children (the only boy among them) assumed the throne of England and Wales as Edward VI .

10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...

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10 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her mother from Henry VIII 's sister Mary ) acceded to the throne of England.

1641: The first pamphlet appeared on the subject...

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1641

The first pamphlet appeared on the subject of Mother Shipton, a Yorkshirewoman credited with magic powers including divination.

24 March 1670: The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds...

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24 March 1670

The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds of his wife's adultery, passed the House of Lords : the first such occasion since Henry VIII , said John Evelyn .

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.

1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...

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1793

William Freind argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church and state.

March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

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March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.

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