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...
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...
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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,...
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...
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The variousChristiandenominations in the United Kingdom have emerged from schisms that divided the church over the centuries. The greatest of these occurred inEnglandin the 16th century, whenHenry VIIIrejected the supremacy of the pope. This break with Romefacilitatedthe adoption of some Protestant ...