Claire | June 7, 2010

Author Robert Parry has written a series of articles over at The Elizabeth Files – see Cambridge Connections and Cambridge Connections Part 2 – where he examines what Anne Boleyn was actually doing when she asked her chaplain Matthew Parker to make sure that her daughter, Elizabeth, was looked after if anything happened to her. […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Personality, Elizabeth I, The Reformation, Tudor Characters | 11 Comments »
Tags: Cambridge, Elizabeth I, John Cheke, John Dee, legacy, Marquis of Pembroke Dress, Roger Ascham, William Cecil, William Grindal

Claire | May 5, 2010

Sir Richard Page is mentioned, along with Sir Thomas Wyatt, as being imprisoned in the Tower in a letter from Sir William Kingston to Thomas Cromwell, which is undated and badly damaged by fire but which is thought to have been written on the 5th May1. But who was Sir Richard Page and how did […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Queen Consort, Events of 1536, Henry VIII, The Boleyns, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events | 8 Comments »
Tags: Jane Seymour, Marquis of Pembroke Dress, Sir Francis Bryan, Sir Nicholas Carew, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, the Seymours, Thomas Cromwell

Claire | March 21, 2010

On this day in history, 21st March 1556, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was executed, he was burnt at the stake as a herectic, one of the Protestant martyrs of Mary I’s reign and one of the three famous “Oxford Martyrs”. This article has been split into two parts – The Life of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and […]

Category: Anne Queen Consort, Edward VI, Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey, Marriage, Mary I, News, The Reformation, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events, Tudor Politics, Tudor Times | 10 Comments »
Tags: Act of Uniformity, Anne Boleyn, Archbishop Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer, Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Marquis of Pembroke Dress, Mary I, Reformation, Thomas Cranmer

Claire | March 18, 2010

Just a quick post as I’ve just found this video which talks about where Anne Boleyn was held prisoner – the Queen’s Lodgings of the Royal Palace (no longer in existence) not the Queen’s House – and whether she wrote “O Death Rock Me Asleep”:- Here is the poem which Anne Boleyn was said to […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Places, Myths and Legends, News | 4 Comments »
Tags: Marquis of Pembroke Dress, O Death Rock Me Asleep, poem, prison, Queen's Lodgings, Tower of London