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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, ... Cranmer helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, ...
Cranmer secures a confession from Catherine, who also admits an affair with Thomas Culpeper during her marriage to Henry. Catherine is beheaded. Henry, now elderly, approaches Catherine Parr, a widow from two previous marriages. Catherine is reluctant, citing her religious views which differ from Henry's, but Henry admits his need for ...
Despite the Pope's refusal to annul the marriage, Henry separated from Catherine in 1531; Catherine was 45, Henry was 40. He ordered Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, to convene a court. On 23 May 1533, [13] Cranmer ruled the marriage to Catherine null and void. On 28 May 1533, he pronounced the King legally married to Anne (with whom ...
Thomas Cranmer: Hans Matheson (2008) Thomas Cranmer: Episode 2.01 Episode 2.10 The Archbishop of Canterbury who resolves the dispute over Henry's marriage of Katherine of Aragon by declaring it "null and void" and recognising Anne Boleyn as the new Queen. He is presented as a nervous (and secretly married) man when Thomas Cromwell introduces ...
Thomas, even though he and Catherine share romantic feelings, is especially eager that she should marry Henry. Archbishop Cranmer also encourages the devoutly Protestant Catherine to marry the king. Catherine soon becomes queen of England; her natural maternal instinct is put into practice with the king's children, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward.
John Lassells informed Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Mary's comment while King Henry and Queen Catherine were on progress in the fall of 1541. Cranmer questioned Mary, who provided details of the Queen's earlier sexual indiscretions with her music master, Henry Manox , and a Howard kinsman, [ 2 ] Francis Dereham , in the Dowager Duchess's household.
Cranmer was consecrated, while declaring beforehand that he did not agree with the oath he would take. [57] Cranmer was prepared to grant the annulment [58] of the marriage to Catherine as Henry required. The Pope responded to the marriage by excommunicating both Henry and Cranmer from the Catholic Church.
Lutheran clergyman Thomas Cranmer, newly arrived at Court, receives a promotion as the king's chaplain at the behest of Cromwell and the Boleyns. Thomas and George Boleyn bribe a cook to poison the food of Catherine's strongest supporter, Bishop of Rochester John Fisher; however, the bishop survives and the cook, Richard Roose, is boiled alive ...