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1 giorno fa · Queen Elizabeth and Leicester by William Frederick Yeames, 1865. In the early 17th century, William Camden saw "some secret constellation" of the stars at work between Elizabeth and her favourite; he firmly established the legend of the perfect courtier with the sinister influence.
- Sir Robert Dudley (illegitimate), Robert Dudley, Lord of Denbigh
4 giorni fa · Elizabeth I’s death, four hundred years ago, ended the Tudor dynasty and brought the Stuart kings of Scotland to the English throne. The dynastic changeover inaugurated a new phase of the history of this island.
2 giorni fa · Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. The events surrounding the annulment of Henry’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne led him to break with the Roman Catholic Church and brought about the English Reformation.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Anne Boleyn was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn (who was later named earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde) and Elizabeth Boleyn (née Howard), the daught...
- Anne Boleyn joined the court of King Henry VIII of England, and he fell in love with her. In January 1533 he married Anne; his marriage to Catherin...
- Anne Boleyn used her position at court to present herself as a solution to Henry's succession issues. Because Pope Clement VII refused to annul Hen...
- Anne failed to produce a male heir for Henry VIII, and he grew interested in Jane Seymour. Henry had Anne confined to the Tower of London on charge...
3 giorni fa · Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Elizabeth Howard, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey and future 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney.
- 1 June 1533
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
- 19 May 1536, Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, London
- Elizabeth Howard
3 giorni fa · Thanks to the work of Henry VII and his men and the tireless subsequent efforts of Wolsey, Cromwell and others, much of it based on the Henry VII legacy, there was a foundation on which the ‘new’ new men of Elizabeth’s reign could build.
3 giorni fa · The death of Mary I who was replaced on the English throne by Elizabeth Tudor, a daughter of Henry VIII. As Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), the new monarch was determined to further the cause of the Protestant faith.
3 giorni fa · Penn is excellent on the links between early Tudor England and the peninsula in terms of trade, diplomacy, cultural exchange and the relationship with the papacy. Despite this the overall assessment of Henry’s reign is problematic.
