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As Folger Theatre continually reminds us in its sturdily acted, becomingly visual "Henry VIII," history is in the imaginative mind of the conjurer -- in this case, William Shakespeare.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
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The figure on the right is Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador to the English court of Henry VIII.
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People who longed for a more thorough introduction of Reformation principles during the reigns from Henry VIII to James I heavily relied on the Old Testament.
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Henry VIII's gardener, Richard Harris, had an orchard in Teynham producing cherries, pears, and pippins (eating apples), said to have been ‘the chief mother for all the other orchards of those kind of fruits’.
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Another intriguing find from the cemetery was a group of seven gold coins from the reign of Henry VIII known as ‘angels’.
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A brief sidenote: the name Bloody Mary is associated with Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII.
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Construction of the chapel was begun in 1475 by Edward IV and completed under Henry VIII in 1528 and represents one of the finest examples in the country of the Perpendicular Gothic style.
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In 1543 he was condemned to be burnt as a heretic for his adherence to Calvinism, but he was reprieved by Henry VIII and on his release from prison returned to St George's.
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This whole area used to be Henry VIII's hunting chase, a protected patch of lush woodland to the north of the capital.
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The church has an anchorage or cell where a succession of anchorites (hermits) lived from 1383 until the reign of Henry VIII.
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Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls.
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Between the hall and chancel, fronting the great castle gate, was a large chamber, with several rooms, and a cloyster under it, pulled down A.D. 1700; for which, when standing, in the reign of King Henry VIII., there was one suit of hangings of the story of Hercules; which are supposed to be those still remaining at the seat of Lord Howard, of Walden.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832
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Only the nobility were allowed to take part in jousting tournaments though Henry VIII had to retire from the sport as he was seriously injured in a jousting tournament in 1536.
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Probably he did, but Henry VIII won instant popularity for beheading his father's minions.
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By competing dynastically and territorially with his European counterparts, especially Francis I, Henry VIII acknowledged settled convention and, even more obviously, popular demand.
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After "Merry Wives" come parts one and two of "Henry IV," Aug. 1 and 18, respectively, and "Henry VIII" on Sept. 15.
The Short List
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Henry VIII banned his brewer from adding hops to the royal brew, but as wine became more expensive the popularity of hopped beer grew.
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He was a gentleman-at-arms who attended Henry VIII at The Siege of Boulogne in 1544.
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The narrative, focalized through its subject, Thomas Cromwell, dwells at greatest length on Henry VIII's quest for an heir and the earth-shattering social, political, and religious consequences it entailed.
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Wooden panels, leaded windows, tapestried sofas, a huge fireplace and ancient portraits including one of King Henry VIII who stayed here with Anne Boleyn adorning the the soaring loft-height walls.
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In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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For instance, Linacre, the personal physician of Henry VIII, had the been rector of four parishes, a canon at three cathedrals and precentor at York Minster.
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The popularity of fencing in Tudor times was largely due to Henry VIII who encouraged displays of swordplay and who had, in 1540, given the London Masters of Defence a monopoly of teaching arms.
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Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
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Since the 16th century the Perrots had lorded it over Pembrokeshire, the grandest of them the giant Sir John, the viceroy of Ireland, said to have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
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Recens in quorundam vestrorum animis adhuc est illius cruenti temporis memoria," said Henry VIII. in a speech in council, "quod a Ricardo tertio cum avi nostri materni Edwardi quarti statum in controversiam vocâsset ejusque heredes regno atque vitâ privâsset illatum est.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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What a deal of money did Henry VIII. and Francis I. king of France, spend at that [1719] famous interview? and how many vain courtiers, seeking each to outbrave other, spent themselves, their livelihood and fortunes, and died beggars?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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At the time of Henry VIII's breach with Rome the monks, especially those of the London charterhouse (founded 1370), offered a stanch resistance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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It has obtained such reputation as it possesses, partly because of its invention or improvement of the fable of "Surrey and Geraldine"; more, and more justly, because it does work up a certain amount of historical material -- the wars of Henry VIII. in French Flanders -- into something premonitory (with a little kindness on the part of the premonished) of the great and long missed historical novel; still more for something else.
The English Novel
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When King Henry VIII of England decided to divorce Catherine of Aragorn to marry Anne Boleyn, he sought an annulment from the Pope.
November 2003
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To make this all a bit more digestible for a modern palate, the director has trimmed away some of the pomp, as well as the stodgier verbiage of "Henry VIII," and the reductions make for a more playable evening.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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Henry VIII himself was kept informed of the hunting expeditions undertaken by his children.
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One noteworthy instance in which a golden seal was used was that of the bull by which Leo X conferred upon King Henry VIII the title of Fidei Defensor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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I then said, that if the motion made by the noble Lord was persisted in, I should most undoubtedly not oppose it, because it was impossible for me to give opposition to any measure which had even the appearance of adding strength to the exclusive rights of Ireland; that I was of opinion myself that the jurisdiction in question was not, by any means whatever, conveyed by the Act referred to; that the statute of Henry VIII. was not intended to affect any part of the King's dominions was clear to a demonstration, from the subsequent statute of the same King in explanation of it -- the preamble of which, referring to the former Act, does expressly speak of treasons committed out of this realm, _and other the King's dominions_; and that the circumstance of the adoption of the former Act by the Irish
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The house which the worthy goldsmith inhabited, had in former times belonged to a powerful and wealthy baronial family, which, during the reign of Henry VIII., terminated in a dowager lady, very wealthy, very devout, and most unalienably attached to the Catholic faith.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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He was clearly reserved and rarely affable: he had little of Henry VIII's false heartiness nor of Elizabeth I's adroit condescensions.
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Thanks to a record left by the royal cordwainer, we learn Henry VIII owned a pair of football boots.
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Every man was ordered to have a bow; [v] butts were ordered to be erected in every parish; [v*] and every bowyer was ordered, for each bow of yew which he made, to make two of elm or witch, for the service of the common people. [v**] The use of crossbows and handguns was also prohibited. [v***] * 23 Henry VIII. c.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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She was Mary I, aka Bloody Mary, elder daughter of Henry VIII; she was contrary because she held to the Roman Catholic faith after her father's schism with Rome.
Notes and queries: What two quite contrary Marys had in common; British Isles – the view from the Channel; Why do baddies always have two henchmen?
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The abbey was dissolved in 1539 during Henry VIII's fallout with Rome but became a centre of resistance to Henry's moves against Catholicism.
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Franklyn cited one such Act, 24 Henry VIII c 13 1533 as authorising all doctors to wear scarlet, as well as claiming that the MA and BD are thereby entitled to a black chimere, or tabard.
Two from Cox: Sumptuary Laws and Sovereignty
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The word mews dates back to Henry VIII's hawks, which were "mewed", or caged.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Henry VIII's pursuit of marriage dissolutions ended with rather more permanent and momentous arrangements than such modern-day quests: England rejected Rome, and wives literally lost their heads.
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Until the mid-1550s, Henry VIII's parliament outlawed usury, or interest-based money lending, and Islam prohibits what's called "riba" in Arabic.
When Religion Restricts Lending
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The book contained a fascinating portrait of life at the court of Henry VIII.
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The remains of Henry VIII and the beheaded Charles I are entombed there, along with the bodies of the Queen's parents, George VI and the Queen Mother.
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Wales was legally annexed by the Act of Union 1536, in the reign of Henry VIII of England.
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The Church of England was established when the unhappily married Henry VIII wanted to marry a nubile minx named Anne Boleyn.
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Henry VIII had ordered "every of you that be parsons, vicars, curates and also chantry priests and stipendiaries to ... teach and bring up in learning the best you can all such children of your parishioners as shall come to you, or at least teach them to read English.
The Age of the Reformation
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Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.
Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
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Whereas Henry VIII spent an average of £63 on the annual Maundy ceremony, Mary's honour required an outlay of £160.
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He was a cousin-german of Henry VIII., and he was allied to two of
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Red deer, along with various wildfowl and fish, were all important elements in the menus of the royal court of Henry VIII.
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Henry VIII dropped the wolfhound and replaced it with a lion, thus making the royal insignia less Welsh.
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Few people realize that the future King Henry VIII was Duke of York at one point.
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This family will loom large for schoolchildren of the future, fat with memorability like Henry VIII.
Victoria Coren: why I shall be up at dawn to watch the royal family in all its bizarre glory
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It remained in the abbey's hands until the suppression of the monasteries in 1539 when it was rented from the Crown by Sir Anthony Kingston who was to provide forty deer, annually, for King Henry VIII, who used the House as a hunting lodge.
Prinknash Abbey
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The arquebus constructed in this manner was used in England in the time of Henry VIII., and was variously called haquebut, hakebut, hagbut, and hagbus, names all derived from the hooked shape of the butt.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII.
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After the decimation of rural areas in the 13 th Century through the Plague and War of the Roses, fruiterer Richard Harris set up the first large-scale orchards on the instructions of Henry VIII.
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Were one able to follow the example set us, among cities, by Leipsic (where the word pauperism is absolutely non - existent), we should have effectually turned the corner out of the ill - kept vagrant road into which Henry VIII first led us, when "pauperism" began to be a sore in the midst of England's healthy body of citizens.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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just like in the good auld days of Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and James II.
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Queen Elizabeth I was even fussier over smelly people than her father, Henry VIII.
Modest Active Wear
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The body and dress of King Henry VIII of England served as icons of masculinity and power, his extravagant codpieces denoting his virility.
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They were also one of the most popular game birds for hawking and Henry VIII passed legislation imposing heavy fines on those caught stealing heron eggs or killing them by any means other than hawking.
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Charles's household ordinances were intended to re-introduce order and decorum into court life by re-establishing the etiquette of Henry VIII's time.
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He was thinking of King Henry VIII's black velvet close-stool studded with 2,000 gold nails.
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The tradition of church music was confused by the peculiar nature of Henry VIII's semi-Reformation.
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Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII's network of coastal defences, it is now little more than a rock pile.
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The grounds contain the remains of Elsynge Hall, one of Henry VIII's many hunting lodges and a favourite childhood residence of the young princess Elizabeth.
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In the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn wished to give the post of abbess to a friend, but King Henry had scruples on the subject, for the proposed abbess had a somewhat shady reputation; he wrote, "I would not for all the gold in the world clog your conscience nor mine to make her a ruler of a house, which is of so ungodly a demeanour, nor I trust you would not that neither for brother nor sister I should so bestain mine honour or conscience.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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Best known as the catty assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt's other royal roles include Princess Isolda andand Catherine Howard in the TV dramas Boudica and Henry VIII.
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His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
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Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII's network of coastal defences, it is now little more than a rock pile.
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These patents claim that the princesses received their lands "in fulfilment [sic] of Henry VIII's will.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Henry VIII reigned for a long time
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It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there.
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He was a leading figure at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
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Attainders could also do serious damage if they left a power vacuum in a particular region, as occurred in East Anglia when the third duke of Norfolk was attainted by Henry VIII in 1547.
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But the difference of course was that Henry VIII wasn't really interested in changing anything other than the headship of the church.
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This was a considerable undertaking, as Henry VIII was the Citizen Kane of his day with vast stores of furnishings and "stuff" crammed in palatial storehouses at the various royal residences.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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The disposition of the Howard estate had been a matter of particular concern to Henry VIII who considered the Howard estates too valuable to alienate from the crown. 15 Henry's intention had been to gift them to Prince Edward.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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The pomegranate was part of Catherine of Aragon's coat of arms and was accepted into English heraldry when she married King Henry VIII in 1509.
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After the death of Henry VIII, the princesses were able to assume full control in furnishing their households.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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We have often wondered that Henry VIII as he is drawn by Shakespeare, and as we have seen him represented in all the bloated deformity of mind and person, is not hooted from the English stage.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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I had lunch with an old chum I haven't seen for a while, which was lovely, and I found a bunch of stuff I needed for the play, and I finished watching the Bravo Two Zero doco which is research for the Stargate book (which I will start actually writing next week, I swear to God) and sorted out more play stuff, and watched part of the David Starkey dvd doco on Henry VIIIs six wives (he was such a sod, he really was).
Inch worm, inch worm ...
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All of history's great leaders have been narcissistic; in combination with generosity of spirit, you get Lincoln; in combination with meanness of spirit, you get Henry VIII.
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Instead, he argues that if the Henry VIII/Anthony St Leger policy of "surrender and regrant" had been consistently applied, Ireland could have been integrated into the Tudor realms without much more difficulty than Wales or the far north of England, with the Gaelic chieftains converted to loyal-ish subjects rather than fractious objects of military adventure.
September Books 19) Tudor Ireland
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The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out.
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Fisher was deprived, attainted, and beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church.
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The great thing aboutHenry VIII andhis six wives is that it was rife with drama and intrigue to begin with.
The Tudors…BAD. « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
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Note 13: CPR, 1547, p. 148 (Oct. 7th); for other grants that employed the tripartite indenture regarding property in conveyance when Henry VIII died, see CPR, 1547, pp. 4; 13; 23; 39; 116; 151; 157; 161; 178; 179; 239; 241 back
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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It shows Elizabeth with siblings Edward VI and Mary I, father Henry VIII and his jester, Will Somers.
New Portrait of Elizabeth I Discovered
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He served as a principal secretary to four successive Tudor monarchs, from Henry VIII to the early reign of Queen Elizabeth.
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Due to Henry VIII's agonising difficulty in siring a healthy, legitimate male heir, the succession was safeguarded by both royal wills and acts of Parliament.
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The helm, the shield and the sword from Henry V's funeral were magnificently displayed, and so was the tournament and horse armour of Henry VIII.
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He served as a principal secretary to four successive Tudor monarchs, from Henry VIII to the early reign of Queen Elizabeth.
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The figure on the right is Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador to the English court of Henry VIII.
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The book contains a fascinating portrait of life at the court of Henry VIII.
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James exploited both the weakness of his own ecclesiastical hierarchy and the papacy's fear that he might follow his uncle Henry VIII in repudiating Rome altogether.
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The other is Queen Catherine Parr, who had been his friend before she had the dubious honor of becoming the last of Henry VIII's six, mostly ill-starred wives.
Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England
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The abbey was founded in 1132 and monks lived in it for 400 years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
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When Henry VIII founded a dockyard for building ships in Deptford, the area became renowned across the shipping industry.
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The most victorious and triumphant king of England, Henry VIII., of that time, for the debatement of certain weighty matters sent me ambassador into Flanders, joined in commission with Cuthbert Tunstall, whose virtue and learning be of more excellency than that I am able to praise them.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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He was the 10th monarch to be buried in the precinct of the chapel, with other sovereigns including Henry VIII, Charles I, George III, Edward VII and George V.
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The growing importance of the heavily gunned man-of-war at sea during the reign of Henry VIII was to transform the administration that supplied them.
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Maurice's grandson William was educated at the royal court along with King Henry VIII.
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(Luther, Henry VIII, to the Episcopalians who now associate with the Rwanda Church to avoid the gay-marriage/gay-bishop stuff, to the random Church in Altus, Oklahoma who might not care for the way the new preacher is doing things).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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Henry VIII was a Roman Catholic and the head of this church was the pope based in Rome.
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It is one of history's great ironies that the man who publicly refuted him was none other than Henry VIII, rewarded with the title of Fidei Defensor - Defender of the Faith - in 1521.
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Henry VII died and his second son acceded to the throne as Henry VIII.
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The 15th-century gothic church is the burial place of 10 monarchs, including Henry VIII, Charles I and the Queen's father, King George VI.
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Roland Dee dealt in textiles and, in addition, was a gentleman sewer at the court of Henry VIII.
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seconde" and "thyrde parte;" also before the New Testament, the well-known one of Henry VIII. giving the Bible, but the space for
Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Sir Edward Dymoke, Sheriff of Lincolnshire 27 Henry VIII., and also 1 Ed.VI. and 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, married Anne, sister and coheir to
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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From the death of Henry VIII, when Mary was once again heir to the throne and mistress of her own independent establishment, her Privy Chamber recruited staff mainly from gentry families who were associated with regions near her estates.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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The book contains a fascinating portrait of life at the court of Henry VIII.
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He propounded views in favour of the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, was appointed to the archbishopric in 1533, and maintained the king's claim to be the supreme head of the Church of England.
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during the reign of Henry VIII
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He uses his cavernous voice to great effect as a lubricious Henry VIII and a nearly gaga George III.
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He played this part with gravity and dignity, and in an understated style which set off the flamboyant persona of Henry VIII.
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In the sixteenth century, the French connection was receding into England's past, but not in the imagination and ambition of Henry VIII, who tried to be Henry V reincarnate.
