Related to Sir Thomas More:Anne Boleyn,Thomas Cromwell ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. Sir Thomas More- English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ide...
a repudiation of Luther, and wrote an answer to Luther’s reply under a pseudonym. After the fall of Thomas Wolsey in 1529, More became Lord Chancellor, the first layman to hold the post. While his work in the law courts
'Thomas More's trial was a turning-point in English constitutional history' (1). More enjoyed warm relations with Catherine of Aragon, Henry's first wife, whose failure to bear him a viable male heir triggered Henry's quest for an annulment of their marriage. Anne Boleyn, on the other ...
Campbell says that "since the time of Plato there had been no composition given to the world which, for imagination, for philosophical discrimination of men and manners, and for felicity of expression, could be compared to the Utopia" (Lives of the Lord Chancellors; Life of Sir Thomas More...
On the 17th May 1536, Thomas Wyatt was filled with horror as he watched the executions of Weston, Brereton, Norris, Smeaton andGeorge Boleynfrom the window of his prison cell in the Bell Tower. He recorded the sight in his poem “Innocentia Veritas Viat Fides Cicumdederunt me inimici ...
Some think this Holbein may beElizabeth Brooke,wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Poet. According toHolbein’s Drawings at Windsor Castleby Phaidon, “The inscription is certainly incorrect, the features showing no resemblance whatever with the well authenticated drawing of Anne Boleyn in Lord Bradford’...
Queen Elizabeth, the only surviving child ofKing Henry VIIIand his second wife,Anne Boleyn, was born on September 7, 1533, at Greenwich. Until theexecution of her motherin the spring of 1536, she lived well as a pampered princess. Because of her mother’s death, Parliament declared her il...
and with as much integrity as did More. More's road from his post as Lord Chancellor of England to the Tower of London owes its course to a Bible passage, a marriage of a long-dead prince, and the consuming desire of lustful and vain-glorious King Henry VIII to marry Anne Boleyn. Sw...
Mary’s life was radically disrupted, however, by her father’s new marriage to Anne Boleyn. Britannica Quiz Fit for a King (or Queen): the British Royalty Quiz As early as the 1520s Henry had planned to divorce Catherine in order to marry Anne, claiming that, since Catherine had been ...
With her father’s death in 1547 and the accession to the throne of her frail 10-year-old brother Edward, Elizabeth’s life took a perilous turn. Her guardian, the dowager queen Catherine Parr, almost immediately marriedThomas Seymour, the lord high admiral. Handsome, ambitious, and discontent...