Edward V (2 November 1470 – c. mid-1483) was de jure King of England and Lord of Ireland from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death.Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was …

Early life. Henry Carey was the second child of William Carey and Mary Boleyn who was the sister of Anne Boleyn, the second wife and Queen of Henry VIII.Carey and his elder sister Catherine came under the wardship of their maternal aunt Anne Boleyn, who was engaged to Henry VIII at the time. The children still had active contact with their mother, who remained on …

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599.It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift,: p.6 and The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.

Birth and family. Mary was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, England.She was the only child of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to survive infancy.Her mother had suffered many miscarriages and stillbirths. Before Mary's birth, four previous pregnancies had resulted in a stillborn daughter and three short-lived or stillborn …

The Six Wives of Henry VIII is a series of six television plays produced by the BBC and first transmitted between 1 January and 5 February 1970. The series was later aired in the United States on CBS from 1 August to 5 September 1971 with narration added by Anthony Quayle. The series was rebroadcast in the United States without commercials on PBS as part of its …

Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy was repealed in 1554 during the reign of his staunchly Roman Catholic daughter, Queen Mary I.Upon her death in November 1558, her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne. The first Elizabethan Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy 1558, which declared Elizabeth the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, …

Heinrich VII. Tudor (engl.Henry Tudor [ˈtuːdə], [ˈtʲuːdə], walisisch Harri Tewdwr oder Tudur, * 28. Januar 1457 auf Pembroke Castle, Wales; † 21. April 1509 im Richmond Palace) war König von England und Herr von Irland in der Zeit vom 22. August 1485 bis zu seinem Tod und der Begründer der Tudor-Dynastie.. Er war der letzte König Englands, der den Thron auf dem …

Henry II (13 January 1334 – 29 May 1379), called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricidal (el Fratricida), was the first King of Castile and León from the House of Trastámara.He became king in 1369 by defeating his half-brother Peter the Cruel, after numerous rebellions and battles.As king he was involved in the Fernandine Wars and the Hundred Years' War

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC (1473 – 25 August 1554) was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era.He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages.After falling from favour in 1546, …

Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall (* 1.Januar 1511 im Palast von Richmond; † 22. Februar 1511 ebenda) war der älteste Sohn König Heinrich VIII. von England und seiner ersten Gemahlin, Katharina von Aragon, und somit während seiner Lebenszeit Kronprinz von England.. Der sogenannte „Neujahrsprinz“ starb bereits im Alter von nur 52 Tagen. Sein Tod hatte allerdings …

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland, expropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former …

Henry VIII's reign. Henry Grey became the 3rd Marquess of Dorset in 1530 following the death of his father. Before Henry VIII's death in 1547, Grey became a fixture in court circles. A knight of the Bath, he was the king's sword-bearer at Anne Boleyn's coronation in 1533, at Anne of Cleves' arrival in 1540, and at the capture of Boulogne in 1545.

Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər /; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the wife of Louis XII.She was the younger surviving daughter of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the third wife of King Louis XII of France, who was more than 30 years her senior.. Following Louis's death, she married Charles Brandon, 1st …

History. By 1536, King Henry VIII of England had broken with the Holy See, seized assets of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and declared the Church of England as the established church with himself as its supreme head.The Act of Supremacy 1534 confirmed the king's status as having supremacy over the church and required the peers to swear an oath recognising …