So, on November 2, Thomas Cranmer had let the fifty-year-old Henry VIII know that witnesses had come forward claiming that his seventeen-year-old (fifth) wife had…
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Henry VIII beheaded his fifth wife two months after he discovered her adulterous (pre-adulterous?) relationship with Thomas Culpeper, and two weeks after Parliament passed the…
Just a short recap – on November 2, Henry learned about Catherine’s past (you can read about that here). To his credit, he did not…
This would have been such a difficult trip for poor Kitty Howard. After Parliament passed the Act of Attainder against her, officials came to get…
All Souls Day was the beginning of the end for Catherine Howard, the day Thomas Cranmer left a letter on Henry’s seat in the Chapel Royal detailing information he “had not the heart” to tell him directly
March 5, 1549 was the day Thomas Seymour realized his life was over, the day that a parliamentary bill of attainder declared him guilty of 33 counts…
Henry VIII married Catherine Howard on July 28 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey. The wedding, officiated by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, took place only…
Catherine Howard was brought to the Tower of London on Friday, February 10th 1542, she was there when the Act of Attainder against her was…
February 7, 1542 marks an important point in the surprisingly complex legal case against Catherine Howard: the passage of the Bill of Attainder that declared…
December 15, 1541 – Thomas Howard wrote an abject letter to the King in the hope of distancing himself from his niece Catherine and other unfortunate relatives. Read it on www.janetwertman.com
