Full disclosure: I don’t really like the man. I made him the antagonist in The Path to Somerset, and found it really hard to convincingly…
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Tag: Stephen Gardiner
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post for Anne’s execution but focused on what the event meant for Katherine Parr and the reformists…
In December 1546, Henry VIII had a little more than a month left to live. Although he likely didn’t see the time frame as being…
The Lord Chancellor was the most powerful man in England (after the sovereign, of course), so this was the ultimate triumph for a man as…
So today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Mary Rose. I started to write one of my usual blog posts, but nothing was…
The execution of Sir Nicholas Carew is actually the opening scene of The Path to Somerset: it was the perfect backdrop to set the tone…
Anne Askew was an unfortunate pawn in Tudor politics. She was tortured (the only woman on record to have experienced this) and burned for heresy…
So just about everything we know about the fall of Anne Boleyn comes from people who didn’t actually KNOW but were just repeating stories. But…
On April 30, 1536, Henry VIII wrote to Stephen Gardiner, who was then serving as England’s ambassador to Francis I. The letter was a general…
Stephen Gardiner was an important English cleric and politician during the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary I (his strongly Catholic leanings sent him to…
