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1 giorno fa · We have also captured restoration work on the iconic Mary Rose warship. An important carrack in Henry VIII’s fleet, she was launched in 1511 and fought in may wars before sinking in the Solent. After being located in 1971 she was raised in October 1982 and has helped historians understand more about Tudor life thanks to the precious artefacts which were discovered on-board.
3 giorni fa · Examining the operational use of Henry VIII's warships the author analyses the battle of the Solent in 1545, in which Henry's fleet took on a French fleet of 200 ships - much larger than the Spanish Armada decades later. Despite the well-documented loss of his flagship, the Mary Rose, Henry's smaller force succeeded in preventing a ...
3 giorni fa · But perhaps the most innovative section in general terms is the one which follows, which takes us into Henry VIII’s reign. Quite a lot of the examples in the earlier sections are drawn from this reign, though mostly only into the early 1520s, but here we explicitly follow the progress of the new men into the very different world of Henry VII’s son.
3 giorni fa · During the Middles Ages, the shrine at Glastonbury attracted many pilgrims. This ended in September 1539, when King Henry VIII’s commissioners arrived. The last leader of the Benedictine monastery, Abbot Richard Whiting, attempted to resist the official destruction of the monastery and the ancient site of pilgrimage.
2 giorni fa · Covers the period January to August 1540. Letters and Papers, Henry VIII.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1896. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
2 giorni fa · Henry VIII built a fleet of fighting ships armed with large guns and created a naval administration. Under Elizabeth I the navy developed into England’s major defense and became the means by which the British Empire was extended around the globe.
2 giorni fa · The said Sir Thomas alleges that the office of Garter king was founded by Henry V., when Thos. duke of Clarence, constable and high steward of England, gave Garter king authority over the other kings-at-arms, with power to confer arms by patent; that in the dispute between Sir James Parker and Hugh Vaughan, gentleman usher, the latter exhibited a patent of arms granted him by John Wriothesley ...
