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"O Death Rock Me Asleep" is a Tudor-era poem, traditionally attributed to Anne Boleyn. It was written shortly before her execution in 1536. It was written shortly before her execution in 1536. Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London ( Édouard Cibot , 1835)
Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII.The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.
Side of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula viewed across Tower Green. Tower Green is an open space located south of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.Beheading in the privacy of the Tower Green was considered a privilege of rank; the executed were spared insults from jeering crowds, and the monarch was spared bad publicity.
Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII.
Mark Smeaton (c. 1512 – 17 May 1536) was a musician at the court of Henry VIII of England, in the household of Queen Anne Boleyn.Smeaton – together with the Queen's brother George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford; Henry Norris, Francis Weston, and William Brereton – was executed for treason and adultery with Queen Anne.
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The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521406772; The noble tryumphaunt coronacyon of quene Anne wyfe vnto the moost noble kynge Henry the .viij. 1533; Benger, Elizabeth (1827). Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. p. 445; Friedmann, Paul (1884). Anne ...
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