She was executed in London the following year – just like her cousin, Anne Boleyn, King Henry’s second wife, 6 years earlier. 11. The people of York were requested to lay sand and ashes on the ...

He analyzes the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual and demonstrates how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action.

Although Henry was not related to Catherine Howard, she was a first cousin of his second wife Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded on the King's orders in 1536. According to the strict religious ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

The story, which follows King Henry VIII’s court from the perspective ... her religion and her principles. Anne was his second wife. Their marriage was 3 years long and ended by her arrest ...

Henry was the heir to James VI of Scotland, who became the king of England and Ireland when his son was just nine years old. The young prince was brought up by strict governors to be the perfect ...

It gained its name from a legend that King Henry VIII waited at the spot on 19 May 1536 for a signal from the Tower of London that his second wife had been executed, meaning he could then marry ...

Henry’s second invasion of Normandy sparked the Battle ... this was to be expected given the amount of territory that he ruled. King Louis VI came to the French throne in 1106, and began to ...