Death and Legacy Henry VIII died at age 55 on January 28, 1547. His 9-year-old son Edward VI succeeded him as king but died six years later. Mary I spent her five-year reign steering England back into the Catholic fold, butElizabeth I, the longest-reigning of the Tudor monarchs, rest...
King Henry VIII now required a nurse rather than a wife. He had become obese and needed to be moved around with the help of mechanical devices. He was covered with painful, pus-filled boils and probably suffered from gout. His obesity and other medical problems can be traced to the jousti...
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Henry died on December 1, 1135. He fell ill after eating a number of lampreys against his doctor’s advice. It is possible the cause of death was ptomaine poisoning. Henry was buried inReading Abbeyin Reading, England, which was mostly destroyed during Henry VIII’sDissolution of the Monast...
King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex med...
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Henry VI: A Misjudged King? Few English Monarchs Have Such a Poor Reputation as Henry VI. Yet He Was Held in High Regard by the Tudors, Says Michael Hicks, despite Losing the Wars of the Roses; a Conflict Whose Troublesome Legacy Presented Henry VIII with His Own Difficulties, as Desmond...
March 20th was also the death date of the first Lancastrian king, Henry IV, who is a character in Brian Wainwright’s novel, Within the Fetterlock, which I recommend to those who’ve not yet read it. And on March 20th, 1549, Thomas Seymour was beheaded, a fate he definitely deserved,...
“This has been the greatest murder mystery in British history, because we couldn’t really rely on More as an account of what happened – until now,” says Professor Thornton. “But I have shown that the sons of the chief alleged murderer were at court in Henry VIII’s England, and...
Born in 1478, Sir Thomas More was an English scholar, politician and philosopher during the reign on the Henry VIII. He would eventually serve as Henry's Lord High Chancellor before he dispute with the king resulted in his dismissal.