1534 — Catherine Parr marries John Neville, Baron Latimer
A year after the death of her first husband, Catherine Parr remarried. Her new husband was nearly twice her age,...
February 16, 2022
The Past
May 23, 1533 — Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon’s marriage is annulled
As the King of England, Henry VIII was used to getting his own way. So when he decided that he...
February 16, 2022
1533 — Hans Holbein draws a portrait sketch of Anne Boleyn
Or did he? This sketch, while definitely the work of Hans Holbein the Younger, may have been created as late...
February 16, 2022
May 15, 1532 — Henry VIII breaks with Rome and founds the Church of England
While Henry was careful to frame his objections to the Catholic Church as primarily political, claiming that he could not...
February 16, 2022
July 18, 1529 — Pope Clement VII refuses to grant Henry VIII an annulment
Clement VII became the Pope in 1523, and held the role for almost eleven years. In that time, he often...
February 16, 2022
1529 — Catherine Parr marries Sir Edward Burgh
Catherine Parr was only about 17 when she first married. The marriage had been arranged by her father, Sir Thomas...
February 16, 2022
October 24, 1528 — Katherine of Aragon refuses to be sent to a nunnery
It must have seemed an elegantly simple solution to Henry VIII. Rather than divorcing his wife, he’d simply compel her...
February 16, 2022
March 4, 1522 — Anne Boleyn made a lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon
Although she had arrived in the court prior to this date, it was on March 4, 1522 that she made...
February 16, 2022
1522 — Anne Boleyn returns to England
When Anne Boleyn returned to England, it was originally intended that she should marry James Butler, as part of an...
February 16, 2022
June 15, 1519 — Henry Fitzroy, the only acknowledged bastard of Henry VIII, born
The son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount, his mistress (and a lady-in-waiting of his wife), Henry FitzRoy is the...
February 21, 2022
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