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In 1532, Thomas More had resigned his post of Chancellor. His Catholic faith meant he felt unable to embrace the belief that the Pope was only the Bishop of Rome, and that he had no authority over the Christian church as a whole. Likewise, the English Catholic Bishop John Fisher was unable to recognise Henry as head of the Church of England.
— Jun 20, 2025 06:20AM
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Jane Seymour's brothers came to an equally sticky end. Thomas Seymour was executed for treason on 20 March 1549 and Edward Seymour on 22 January 1552. A number of Jane's other supporters also suffered unpleasant deaths, including Nicholas Carew, who had coached Jane on how to capture the King's heart. He was beheaded for treason in 1539, just three years after the executions of Anne and George.
— Jun 23, 2025 01:09PM
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By involving George Boleyn in Anne's downfall, Cromwell had destroyed his principal noble supporter on the council. The irony is not lost on historian Rory McEntegart, who suggests that George was "the man best placed to offset the anti-Cromwellian feelings of conservative noblemen such as the Duke of Norfolk."2 In the long term, the deaths of Anne and George had considerably weakened Cromwell's position.
— Jun 23, 2025 01:08PM
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Henry's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, died on 23 July 1536, probably of consumption. He was just 17 years old. Of Henry's four children, not one of them had children of their own to carry on the Tudor dynasty.
So much brutality had been carried out, and so many innocent people had died, to ensure that the King had a legitimate son, and in the end it was all for nothing.
— Jun 23, 2025 11:06AM
So much brutality had been carried out, and so many innocent people had died, to ensure that the King had a legitimate son, and in the end it was all for nothing.
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It is difficult for us today to understand why people who are so obviously innocent do not reaffirm their innocence on the scaffold. Sixteenth century values and conventions are poles apart from our own. George's speech reiterated what he had said at his trial:that the verdict proved he deserved death.
He explained that he died under the law,because it was the law that had condemned him. The law was the word of God,
— Jun 23, 2025 11:02AM
He explained that he died under the law,because it was the law that had condemned him. The law was the word of God,
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George Boleyn had many faults, but treason had never been one of them, and Henry must have known that. None of the men's heads were put on display on spikes, as was usual with convicted traitors; this would surely have been the case if Henry seriously thought they were guilty, just as Thomas Culpeper's would be five years later.
— Jun 23, 2025 02:22AM
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George had gone from palace to prison to execution within 15 days, and it is a testament to his courage and strength of character that he was able to defend himself so well at his trial and give such an impassioned speech on the scaffold, when lesser men would still have been in shock.
— Jun 23, 2025 02:21AM
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It is easy to use Jane as a scapegoat, but just as the Boleyn siblings should be given the benefit of the doubt due to the lack of evidence for the charges against them, so the same courtesy should be extended to Jane.
— Jun 22, 2025 10:04AM
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The statement Jane gave to the court did not in itself condemn her husband, or the Queen. Both were already prejudged. There was never a chance that either would be spared, regardless of the evidence laid before the court - or more accurately, the lack of evidence. When George was initially arrested, it is probable that there was a vague intention of charging him as an accessory to his sister's misdemeanours
— Jun 22, 2025 09:52AM
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Following her husband's arrest, Jane may also have been in the position of either providing the Crown with a useful statement, or potentially facing charges herself as an accomplice, seeing as she too had discussed the King's problems. It may even be that she provided the statement regarding Henry's impotence without appreciating that it would be specifically used against her husband;
— Jun 22, 2025 09:50AM
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You don’t realize how messed up and outrageous thre trial for Anne, George, and the others were until read the full accounting of it...
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— Jun 21, 2025 03:17PM
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Fisher had initially been arrested in March 1533 for supposedly alleging that when George Boleyn travelled to France he had taken with him large sums of money to be used as bribes.13 Fisher was later set at liberty, but the following year he was again arrested, this time for refusing to sign the oath of succession acknowledging Anne's children as legitimate heirs. He was also unable to accept that Henry could be the law of God on Earth. Fisher was sent to the Tower on 26 April 1534, shortly after the Act of Succession came into force. He stood trial on 17 June and was beheaded five days later. The death of Fisher resulted in the Pope activating Henry's excommunication, which had been threatened three years previously.
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