Claire | May 24, 2023
Henry VIII’s obsession with Anne Boleyn led to the break with Rome and the English Reformation, but Anne Boleyn had more to do with it than that. In this short video, I talk about how Anne Boleyn showed Henry VIII that he didn’t need the pope… Find out even more in this longer video:
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Henry VIII, The Reformation |
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Claire | February 11, 2015
On this day in history, 11 February 1531, Convocation granted Henry VIII the title of “singular protector, supreme lord, and even, so far as the law of Christ allows, supreme head of the English church and clergy”, and it was George Boleyn, Lord Rochford and brother of Anne Boleyn, who played a prominent role in […]
Category: George Boleyn, Henry VIII, The Boleyns, The Reformation |
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Claire | January 25, 2015
For the final day of the virtual book tour for her book Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey, Adrienne is visiting The Tudor Society with a guest article about what life in exile was like for people like Catherine Carey and her husband Francis Knollys in the reign of Mary I. Click here to […]
Category: Mary Boleyn, Mary I, The Boleyns, The Reformation |
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Tags: Catherine Carey, Catherine Carey book, Francis Knollys, Katherine Carey, Katherine Knollys, Marian Exiles, Marian persecutions, The Reformation
Claire | January 3, 2014
On 3rd January 1521, Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem excommunicating Martin Luther, reformer, German priest and Professor of Theology, from the Catholic Church. The Pope had asked Luther to retract his “Ninety-Five Theses” (full name: The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences or Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis […]
Category: The Reformation, Tudor Characters |
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Claire | October 2, 2013
The 2nd October 1528 saw the publication of English reformer and Bible translator William Tyndale’s “The Obedience of the Christian Man” (full title: “The Obedience of a Christen man, and how Christen rulers ought to govern, wherein also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty convience of all jugglers”) in […]
Category: Anne Queen Consort, Books, Henry VIII, The Reformation |
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Tags: annulment, great matter, Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man, The Reformation, William Tyndale
Claire | June 18, 2013
On 18th June 1546, Anne Askew, a young woman from Lincolnshire who we know now as a Protestant martyr and poet, was arraigned for heresy at London’s Guildhall along with Nicholas Shaxton, Nicholas White and John Hadlam (Adlams or Adams). They were all found guilty and condemned to death. Chronicler and Windsor Herald Charles Wriothesley […]
Category: The Reformation, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Anne Askew, burning, heresy, Protestant martyr, Protestantism, Reform, Reformation, The Reformation
Claire | January 23, 2012
This Thursday, the 26th January, I will be holding a webinar (online talk) for Anne Boleyn Fellowship members on “The Boleyns and Religion”. I will be exploring such questions as:- Were the Boleyns really “more Lutheran than Luther himself”? Was their faith personal or was it politically motivated? What evidence is there of their beliefs? […]
Category: News, The Boleyns, The Reformation |
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Claire | January 3, 2012
On this day in history, 3rd January 1521, Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem excommunicating Reformer, German priest and professor of theology Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. The Pope had asked Luther to retract his Ninety-Five Theses (full name: The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences or […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Personality, The Boleyns, The Reformation |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn's faith, Anne Boleyn's religion, faith, Martin Luther, Protestant, Protestantism, religion, The Reformation