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Born on 28 June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent, Henry Tudor was the third child and second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. [7] Of the young Henry's six (or seven) siblings, only three – his brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, and sisters Margaret and Mary – survived infancy. [8]
The palace was the birthplace of Henry VIII in 1491, and it figured largely in his life. [10] Following the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Greenwich Palace was the birthplace of Mary I in 1516. [11] After Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his daughter, later Elizabeth I, was born at Greenwich Palace in 1533. [12]
26 March – Thomas Elyot, diplomat and scholar (born c. 1490) 16 July – Anne Askew, Protestant (burned at the stake) (born 1521) 1547 19 January – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, nobleman, politician and poet (executed) (born c.1517) 28 January – King Henry VIII (born 1491) c. May – Edward Hall, chronicler and lawyer (born c.1496)
Elizabeth Tailboys (born c.1520- c. 1562) mostly due to being born in the same year of her supposed father's marriage and her mother's, (Gilbert Tailboys and Bessie Blount) and they married near march of that year, so she would normally be born near 1521 if it was immediately consummated, also because Bessie Blount was the mistress of Henry ...
Technically, this was treason as Charles Brandon had married a royal princess without King Henry's consent. [15] Thus, King Henry VIII was outraged, and the privy council urged that Charles should be imprisoned or executed. He was only saved from King Henry's anger by Wolsey and from the affection that the King had for both his sister and for him.
Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
The Blount family was of gentry status but had no real national input until Blount gave birth to Henry Fitzroy, the only acknowledged illegitimate child of Henry VIII. [ 6 ] Little is known of Elizabeth Blount's early years, except for her reputation as a beauty, [ 7 ] and for her famous affair with King Henry VIII (born 1491; he was about ...
Henry was born on 1 January 1511 at Richmond Palace, the first live-born child of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, born eighteen months after their wedding and coronation. Catherine had previously given birth to a stillborn daughter, on 31 January 1510.