There is, if you will, an arresting scene in A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt's magnificent play about Sir Thomas More. The scene concerns an arrest that does not take place at the home of More, the Lord Chancellor of England. God's servant first: Sir Thomas More was beheaded for...
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...
'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 ...
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
Francis Bigod was found hiding with two servants in Cumbria. He was taken to Carlisle Castle before being sent to London where he was executed on 2 June 1537. Aske, Thomas Percy and Lord Darcy were also arrested as were other members of the gentry, along with six abbots including the Abb...
Among the luminaries who passed under the central arch were Anne Boleyn (the day before her coronation) and Queen Elizabeth I. The Queen did so most famously on her way to give thanks in St Paul’s Cathedral for the English victory over the Spanish Armada and since then, whenever a Sovere...
In April, Parliament officially declared Henry's marriage to Catherine to have beeninvalid73and Anne Boleyn proclaimed "Queene at Greenewych." The coronation was a grand affair at Westminster Abbey. Thomas More, still serving as a king's councilor even though no longer Lord Chancellor, does not...
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’...
MorehadgarneredHenry'sfavor,andwasmadeSpeakeroftheHouseofCommonsin1523andChancelloroftheDuchyofLancasterin1525.AsSpeaker,Morehelpedestablishtheparliamentaryprivilegeoffreespeech.HerefusedtoendorseKingHenryVIII'splantodivorceKatherineofAragón(1527).Nevertheless,afterthefallofThomasWolseyin1529,MorebecameLordChancellor...
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...