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PAST LIVES - TUDOR WIVES - ANNE BOLEYN - PAGE 2
Morning glory |
- Anne Boleyn (1501-1536) had the gift of arousing strong feelings.
- People were never neutral: they either loved her or loathed
her, except they loathed and hated her for things she had no
control over and were not her fault.
- History was written by males who were fallen angels and they
always demonized and victimized the females, especially
females who were really the full soul of Sophia who created
the universe.
- Imagine
being Anne Boleyn, brilliant, ambitious, finally giving birth
to a daughter who would change the world, and meanwhile,
watching Henry's disappointment harden into something that
looked like hate.
- And then in a matter of weeks, 17 days
to be exact, the
entire court turning against her followed by false charges and
a sham trial and her own brother dragged into the theater of
destruction.
- Then the French swordsman that Henry
imported specially because a swift death was the only mercy he
would allow.
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The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional.' (David
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Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia
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Anne Boleyn - Lady with an Ermine - 1489-90 |
- Anne Boleyn ( c. 1501 or 1507-1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the
2nd 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.
William Powell Frith, Public domain, via Wikimedia
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Deer Shooting in Windsor Forest - 1903 |
- Anne Boleyn, who is Sophia, was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, and his wife, Elizabeth Howard,
a noble family in Henry's court.
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Her marriage to King Henry VIII (1491-1547) was much worse than anyone knew.
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Henry VIII tore apart the religious order of Europe to marry
Anne.
- Although that wasn't really such a bad thing
because religion is fake and made up and there is no such
thing in heaven.
- But everything he did up to that point
to both his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn
was ghoulish.
- Less than 3 years later, 1000 days, he had Anne killed
and that contradiction sits at the center of the whole story
and the closer you look at it, the stranger it gets.
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The Stout wearing his summer and winter coats
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Ermine |
- How did this little weasel get associated with royalty, pretentious nobility, and the academic and clerical hierarchy?
- The answer lies in the (rare) white fur of this beast (more scientifically know as the stoat, or short-tailed weasel) as well as the emblems incorporated into what became a distinct ermine design: for no animal has the
'ermine' black and white coat, it is a heraldic invention.
- The stoat’s coat is pure white only in winter, and then there are all those little black tails
that are used to make the black dots in the royal robes.
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An ermine pattern is the result, when the distinctive black tips of the animal’s (several animals actually) tail is stitched onto the fur, sometimes cut into distinct heraldic shapes.
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- To understand
the story, you have to go back a bit further, to where Anne actually
came from.
- She grew up around some of the sharpest
political minds in Europe and that mattered more than people
realize.
- As a teen, her family sent her overseas and she
ended up serving at the court of Margaret of Austria and later
under the French royal court under Queen Claude who was the
wife of King Francis I.
- Anne arrived in France around 1514,
where she first went to attend Mary Tudor
(Bloody Mary), Henry VIIIs daughter from his 1st marriage, who married King Louis XII.
- After Louis XII died and Francis I took the throne, Anne joined
his wife, Queen Claude's personal household.
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Louis of Orléans |
- Louis XII (1462-1515), also known as Louis of Orléans, was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples (as Louis III) from 1501 to 1504.
- The son of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his
2nd cousin once removed and brother-in-law, Charles VIII, who died childless in 1498.
- Louis was the 2nd cousin of King Louis XI, who compelled him to marry the latter's disabled and supposedly sterile daughter Joan.
- By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the
Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois.
- When Louis XII became king in 1498, he had his marriage with Joan annulled by Pope Alexander VI and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany, the widow of Charles VIII.
- This marriage allowed Louis to reinforce the personal Union of Brittany and France.
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Francois Clouet, 1540, Source: Fine Art America
Francis I on horseback at Field of Cloth of Gold |
- Francis I (1494-1547) became the King of France in January 1515.
- He ran a brilliant and artistic Renaissance court and Queen Claude
(1499-1524) was the eldest daughter of King Louis
XII and Anne of Brittany.
- Anne was Queen Claude's maid
of honor for approximately 7 years.
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While there, she learned French inside and out and she
picked up the manners, the fashion, the conversation, and the
new religious ideas that were starting to shake up the
Catholic church.
- Her time in Queen Claude's court gave her social grace, political awareness, and high confidence.
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1494-1547
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Francis of the Large Nose |
- Francis I (1494-1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.
- He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy.
- He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son.
- A prodigious patron of the arts, Francis promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa, which Francis had acquired
and hung in his bathroom.
- Francis's reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World.
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Queen Claude and Ladies in Waiting |
- Jacques Cartier and others claimed lands in the Americas for France and paved the way for the expansion of the first French colonial empire.
- Anne Boleyn and King Francis I of France shared a political and personal relationship that spanned her time as a lady-in-waiting in France and her eventual rise as Queen of England.
- Although Anne really had no clue how evil he really was
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Anne Boleyn learned to speak fluent French and acted as an interpreter during royal visits, such as the famous meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. (Assistant)
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Henry VIII as McCluskey (Lucifer) |
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1491-1547
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The Lost Castle
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When Anne returned to the English royal court around 1521 or 1522, these refined French skills helped her stand out and eventually catch the attention of King Henry VIII
- By the time she came back to
England she wasn't just another pretty young lady
hunting for a husband.
- She was polished, she was sharp,
and she knew exactly how to hold her own in a room full of
powerful men.
- She landed a position serving Catherine of
Aragon, Henry's first wife, the same household where a young
man named Henry Percy (1502-1537)
fell for her, and where the king apparently started noticing her
too.
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Lucifer |
- Here's the piece you need to understand about Henry
VIII
because it explains everything that followed.
- He had been
married to Catherine of Aragon since 1509 and in all those years,
Catherine gave him exactly one surviving child, a daughter
named Mary and no sons.
- Several pregnancies had ended in
miscarriage or infant death, and in Henry's mind, that wasn't
bad luck, that was a message from God.
- Henry had
convinced himself that his marriage to Catherine was cursed,
because she'd briefly been married to his older brother,
Arthur, before Arthur died 6 months later.
- However, the marriage
to Henry VIII lasted 24 years and the people of England loved
Catherine.
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Henry
Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland |
- Two years or so after serving in the royal court, in 1523, a royal
order came down to break off Anne Boleyn's engagement to the
young nobleman named Henry Percy who was heir to the Earl of
Northumberland.
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Ancestor of Hotspur |
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Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (c. 1502-1537) was
an English nobleman, active as a military officer in the
north.
- He is now primarily remembered as the betrothed of Anne Boleyn, whom he was forced to give up before she became involved with and later married King Henry VII.
- But later he betrayed Anne and when in May 1536, Percy sat
on the jury that convicted Anne of treason, seeing who played
his character it's easy to see he had no love for her.
- The two of them had gotten secretly
engaged and Cardinal Wolsey, acting for the king, put a stop
to it.
- Nobody at the time wrote down exactly why
Henry VIII cared so much about who a lady in waiting was
allowed to marry.
- But it's worth noticing, the king was
already paying very close attention to Anne.
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey as Elon Musk |
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Thomas Wolsey
1473-1530
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Catholic cardinal
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Alter Rex |
- Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal.
- When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey
became the king's almoner.
- Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state.
- He also held important ecclesiastical appointments which included the Archbishop of York, the second most important role in the English church, and that of papal legate.
- His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy.
- By then, Henry VIII believed
he was being punished for his first marriage to Catherine of
Aragon, so by the mid 1520s, you've got a
king desperate for a son, and a clever, well-connected young
woman named Anne Boleyn back at court, with zero interest in being anybody's
mistress.
- Because that's exactly what Henry offered her at
first, after his affair with Anne's own sister, Mary Boleyn,
had just wound down.
- When he turned his attention to
Anne, he expected the same kind of arrangement, a quiet,
comfortable spot as the king's mistress.
- Anne tole him
no, she wanted marriage or nothing at all, she had witnessed
what he had done to her sister and then he dumped her.
- That
one answer took what could have stayed an ordinary royal
affair and turned it into a full-blown constitutional crisis.
- But Anne thought her rejection of an 'affair' would put an
end to it, only she was mistaken.
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William Carey
c. 1478-1528
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Courtier |
Elon Reeve Musk
1971
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Sweating |
- William Carey (c.1495-1528) was a courtier and favorite of King Henry VIII of England.
- He served the king as a Gentleman of the Privy chamber, and Esquire of the Body to the King.
- His wife, Mary Boleyn, is known to history as a mistress of King Henry VIII and the sister of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn.
- Mary Boleyn was married to William Carey, a courtier in
Henry's royal court.
- Henry made a deal with Carey for his
wife's services and he would give him gifts and rewards
instead of her.
- Carey, died suddenly of the sweating sickness on June 22, 1528, at about 28 years old.
- His sudden death left Mary a widow in severe debt and precarious financial circumstances with
2 young children, Catherine and Henry, to support.
- No one
really knows if the 2 children really belonged to Henry VIII
but he refused to acknowledge them as his own.
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Henry VIII courts Anne Boleyn |
- Let's set the
myths aside and go back to where this whole thing really
started.
- Not with a queen on trial for her life, with a
young woman who made one decision that ended up changing the
fate of a kingdom.
- Except the main problem was that Anne Boleyn never
wanted to marry Henry VIII but he trapped her.
- She was
already engaged to what she believed was her true love, Henry Percy, and the king
broke the arrangement.
- Soon after,
Henry spent a lot of time in court paying attention to Anne,
which she did not appreciate and in the end it caused any
potential suitors to turn away because they knew Henry was
pursuing
her.
- So Anne fled from his court and went back to her
childhood home at Hever Castle only the next thing she knew,
Henry moved into his cousin's castle next door for the summer.
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David Cox Jr., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hever Castle |
- Then Henry rode past her window every morning on a horse
singing and playing a lute and sent her constant 'love'
letters.
- In the end, poor Anne had no choice but to marry
him because without marriage, women in England ended up
destitute and he had scared off all her other potential love interests.
- Anne wanted marriage and a family and it came down to
Henry VIII was
her only choice, she was trapped by him, and so the engagement
proceeded.
- Because now Henry knew he couldn't just keep Anne on
the side.
- Whether that was deep, personal
conviction on Henry's part, or smart political positioning, historians still
argue about it today.
- Probably it was some of both, but
one thing was now settled, Henry wanted Anne, and Anne wanted
a wedding ring, not a secret arrangement.
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Catherine of Aragon |
- If Henry VIII wanted Anne Boleyn, he had to get rid of Catherine
of Aragon and
she wasn't going anywhere quietly.
- He started thinking about ending his marriage to Catherine
in 1526 before he ever set eyes on Anne, because his desire for a male heir was the real driving force
- So the real question is whether he really wanted Anne, or
whether he just wanted a fertile young woman who could produce
a male heir?
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Charles V of Spain as Elon Musk |
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Charles V
1500-1558
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King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily
Holy Roman Emperor |
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1971
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Conquistador |
- Charles V (1500-1558 was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (as Charles I) from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516 to 1554, and also Lord of the Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy (as Charles II) from 1506 to 1555.
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Catherine was the aunt of the Holy Roman Emperor, one of the
most powerful men alive, an annulment wasn't a family matter
anymore, it was an international incident waiting to happen.
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Royal badge of Queen Anne Boleyn |
- To get from
where they stood to where he wanted to be, Henry was
about to do something no English king had ever done before.
- He was going to take on the Pope himself.
- Getting rid
of Catherine of Aragon turned into one of the longest,
messiest fights in English history after Henry spent years
trying to get the Pope to grant him an annulment.
- Rome
wouldn't budge, partly because Catherine's nephew, Emperor
Charles V, had enormous pull over Pope Leo X at the time.
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It was a long engagement and it took Henry 7 years to free
himself from Catherine.
- Something which Anne
Boleyn never instigated, Henry was scheming long before he met
her.
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Thomas Cromwell |
- Cardinal Wolsey, the man Henry had trusted for years
to fix this problem, failed to deliver, it cost him
everything.
- Wolsey fell from power in 1529 and died
before he ever had to face a treason trial.
- With Wolsey
gone, a new man stepped into the picture, Thomas Cromwell, who
offered Henry a solution that no one had ever tried before.
- If the Pope wouldn't grant the annulment, why not just
remove the Pope's authority over England altogether?
- Over
the next few years, Parliament passed a series of laws that
did exactly that.
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c.1485-1540
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Chief minister to King Henry VIII
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Cremuel |
- Thomas Cromwell (c.1485-1540) was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 until mid-1540, at which time he was beheaded on Henry's orders, a loss the King would later regret.
- Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents of the English Reformation.
- As the King's chief secretary, he instituted new administrative procedures that transformed the workings of government.
- He helped to engineer an annulment of the King's
marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that Henry could lawfully
marry Anne Boleyn.
- Henry had failed to obtain the approval of Pope Clement VII for the annulment in 1533.
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Martin Luther as Elon Musk |
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Martin Luther
1483-1546
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Priest, Theologian, Author, Hymn writer
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Heavy pike used to hunt boars |
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor, and former Augustinian friar.
- Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism
and he is considered one of the most influential figures in Western and Christian history.
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Ambitious |
- Anne, for her part, wasn't just an ambitious girl but she
also wasn't chasing a
crown and Henry used the English Reformation to win her side.
- She was genuinely drawn to the reform
movement stirring across Europe, the early rumblings of what
would become the Protestant Reformation.
- She read
scripture in French, she surrounded herself with reform minded
scholars.
- Henry VIII then chose Anne Boleyn as his second
queen, but it took 7 years for his official separation from
Catherine that finally took place in 1531.
Henry VIII and his ermine |
- But one thing she never called for was
splitting from the Catholics and creating the Church of
England, that was all Henry's idea.
- Anne felt the
Catholic church was too greedy and building wealth instead of
working for the people and she wanted to remove funds from
them and print Bibles for the citizens.
- To her own undoing, Anne was also ignorant of the fact that
religion was installed by the fallen angels to create division
on Earth and it was all a lie and that Satan and Lucifer wrote
the Bible..
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Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici
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Pope
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X |
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Pope Leo X (1475-1521) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from March
9, 1513 to his death in December 1521.
- Two sides of the
same coin creating division, he excommunicated Martin Luther
for his actions in the Protestant Reformation when Luther
attempted to split the Catholic church in half.
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1478-1534
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Pope
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Butcher of Cesena |
- England broke away from the Catholic
church and Henry declared himself head of a brand new Church
of England and just like that, he had the power to grant his
own annulment..
- Pope Clement VII (1478-1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from November
19, 1523, to his death in 1534.
- Deemed 'the most unfortunate of the popes,' Clement VII's reign was marked by a rapid succession of political, military, and religious struggles, many long in the making, which had far-reaching consequences for Christianity and world politics.
- His papacy saw the catastrophic Sack of Rome in 1527, the rise of the Protestant Reformation, and King Henry VIII's annulment conflict that caused the English schism.
- Clement
VII had failed to grant Henry an annulment in 1533.
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Antipope Clement VII ruled in 1389–1390 that the
Shroud could be displayed only if it was publicly
announced as an artistic painting rather than the true
burial cloth of Jesus Christ. (Assistant)
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Tudor Rose |
- Henry broke with the
Pope over Anne Boleyn, he split England off from a Catholic church
that had ruled Europe for over 1,000 years.
- He set aside
his 1st wife, humiliated a foreign emperor and rewrote the
laws of succession, all so he could put a ring on Anne
finger and call her queen.
- Except it was never about love
on either side because he just wanted a male heir and she
didn't want to marry him but he trapped her.
- There was an unofficial secret wedding that
took place in November 1532, and a formal ceremony took place in May 1533.
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By January 1533, Anne was
already pregnant and Henry moved fast to make the marriage
official and public.
- Only Anne Boleyn was vilified
for the marriage by the English people who called her a
golddigger and blamed her for Henry's actions.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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Anne Boleyn crowned |
- She was crowned queen that June, in
a coronation dripping with gold and pageantry designed to show
all of England and Europe that this whole fight had been worth
it.
- Put yourself in Anne's shows for a second,
she refused to be a mistress and now she was queen of England.
- She watched Henry tear apart a 1,000 years of religious
tradition just to put a crown on her head and that was about
as complete a victory as a person could ask for, except Anne
never really wanted to marry Henry VIII.
- She was trapped
by him.
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No one rules if no one obeys. (David Icke)
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1489-1556
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Church and state |
- Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was an English theologian who was a leader of the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.
- He is honored as a martyr in the Church of England.
Cranmer was ordained a Catholic priest and served on the theology faculty at Cambridge University.
- At the behest of Cardinal Wolsey, he later served Henry VIII as a diplomat in Europe.
- Five months after Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn in 1533, Cranmer helped build the case for the annulment of
his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See.
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Split from Catholics |
- Parliament then passed the Act of Supremacy repudiating all papal jurisdiction in England and making the king head of the English
church.
- Henry then declared his daughter, Mary I, a
bastard and disowned her.
- There was no formal inquisition in England under Henry VIII in the way it existed in Spain or other parts of Europe.
- While Henry VIII did break with the Catholic Church and established the Church of England, his actions were more about consolidating his own power and wealth than about rooting out heresy through a formal inquisitorial process.
- He used charges of treason and heresy to eliminate opposition, but this was done through acts of Parliament and other legal mechanisms rather than a dedicated inquisition.
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Celebration on January 8, 1536 |
- It's been said that there was joyful yellow and
triumphant parading to celebrate the death of Catherine
of Aragon, except none of that is true.
- Because, to
begin, Anne Boleyn didn't even know that Catherine was
dead yet.
- Plus, it was Eustace Chapuys, who hated
Anne Boleyn that reported all this nonsense, and he
over-exaggerated and lied about everything to do with her
and did not even mention Anne's clothing on that day, just
that Henry was dressed from head to foot in yellow.
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Which shows it's very possible that Henry was celebrating
because he poisoned Catherine and caused her death, but
that had nothing to do with Anne, she was forced into the
marriage with Henry and never approved of his separation
from Catherine.
- On top of that, both Anne and Henry
wore a lot of gold in their clothing, not just on that
day, especially Henry, he just about bankrupted England
with his wardrobe.
- Additionally, Anne did not attend
Catherine's funeral so she certainly wasn't wearing yellow
at that event.
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Ambassador and gossip |
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Gossip Girl of the 16th-Century |
- At the start of 1536, Anne's position was actually still
quite secure, for she was pregnant again.
- On the 7th
of January though, Catherine of Aragon died and on the
29th of that month, Anne lost the son she had been
carrying.
- From here on out things moved very rapidly.
- By mid-February, Eustace Chapuys (1489-1556), an
ambassador, who is best known for the extensive and detailed correspondence he wrote about the life of the court of Henry VIII immediately preceding and during the English Reformation,
was gossiping that Henry had 'latterly made
very valuable presents' to Jane Seymour.
- On March 18, 1536, he told a correspondent
that, 'The new amours of this King with the
young lady of whom I have before written
still go on, to the intense rage of the
concubine (meaning Anne Boleyn).'
- Only
none of this was true, Henry never looked at
Jane Seymour until after her last
miscarriage.
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Edward Seymour
1500-1552
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Lord Protector of England |
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Summer setting |
- Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of
Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp (1500[-1552) was an
English nobleman and politician who served as Lord
Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the
minority of his nephew King Edward VI.
- Chapuys
went on to note that Henry had placed Seymour's brother
in his chamber.
- This brother was Edward Seymour,
future Duke of Somerset.
- Later writers went on to
write tales describing a love triangle in the Queen's
household as Anne fought to keep her husband.
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Spying |
- In the 1580s, Catholic writer Nicholas Sanders
wrote that while she was still pregnant, Anne had
walked in and found Jane sitting on the king's knee.
- This led to a huge row between the royal couple and
to Anne blaming the miscarriage on the actions of
Henry and Jane, who she called an 'abandoned woman.'
- However, this story is also not true and
Sanders is the same author and liar who wrote that Anne had 6
fingers on her hand.
- There were other authors who
wrote that Anne and Jane came to blows and that Anne
had ripped a pendant off Jane's neck with Henry's
portrait.
- Except Jane never had such a pendant.
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Lucifer |
- The real story starts 3 years later, not with any kind
of romance, but with a
decision made in total secret, days before anyone had proven a
single thing against Anne Boleyn.
- By March 1536, Henry was courting Jane Seymour
and he began accusing Anne of seducing him with magic spells.
- Henry had Anne investigated for high treason in April 1536,
and on May 2nd, she was arrested and sent to the Tower of
London.
- Anne was never provided a defense lawyer.
- Somewhere around May 9th or
10th, in 1536, a message went out from the English court, it
didn't go to a judge or jury, instead, it went across the
English Channel to Calala, a small English outpost on the
French coast.
- The message went straight to a swordsman,
not just any executioner, he was a specialist, the kind of man
you called in when you wanted a clean, fast death by the sword
instead of the usual clumsy English axe.
- Here's the
detail that ought to stop you cold, Anne Boleyn's formal trial
hadn't even started yet.
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Mad cap |
- The execution wouldn't happen
until May 15th, showing that somebody in the halls of power
had already made up their mind 5 full days before a single
witness took the stand that this woman was going to die.
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Think about who this woman actually was, because that's what
makes all of this so hard to square.
- And now, suddenly in 3 short
years, he's arranging to have a swordsman cross the English
Channel and take her head off.
- So the real
question isn't, 'did she cheat,' or 'was she guilty,' it's how
you go about tearing apart the religious order of Europe to
marry someone, to quietly signing her death warrant before her
trial had even begun.
- Queen for 1,000 days.
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Just a lie |
- For a long time, no one asked that
question the right way because the real story got buried under
some pretty wild rumors.
- Writers a generation or two
later, claimed that Anne had 6 fingers on one hand, a witch's
mark on her neck, that she bewitched the king with sorcery.
- None of that came from anybody who actually knew her,
instead, it came from Catholic writers years after she was
dead who were trying to paint her daughter Elizabeth as
illegitimate and cursed.
Anne Boleyn was King Henry’s second and possibly most infamous wife for whom the King changed England’s religion and separated from the Church of Rome to marry and sire a much longed-for male heir with. Having failed in delivering a son Anne found herself in the midst of a conspiracy concocted by Henry’s advisor Thomas Cromwell and accused of infidelity with five men including her own brother George Boleyn (Viscount Rochford) and sentenced to death. Anne was famously dispatched by a French swordsman while her brother and the four other accused, Sir William Brereton, musician Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris and Sir Francis Weston, were beheaded by the axe on Tower Hill on the 17 May 1536. (history.co.uk) |
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The Ermine Portrait of Queen Elizabeth
1585
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- On September 7,
1533, Anne gave birth and everyone at court had been expecting
a son.
- Physicians, scholars, astrologers, basically
everyone had promised Henry a boy, and instead, Anne delivered
a healthy daughter they named Elizabeth.
- A healthy baby
should be good news and in its own way it was, but here's the
problem nobody wanted to say out loud, Henry hadn't broken
with Rome, split his country's religion in two, and humiliated
a Holy Roman Emperor just to end up with another daughter.
- He already had one of those with Catherine.
- But
Elizabeth went on to rule for 45 years, without a husband,
she fostered the cultural revolution that gave the world
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, although they were
mocking her and she knew it.
- She turned
England into a global power and navigated religious
conflict that her predecessors could never manage,
although none of that was really a good thing.
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Although the Tudor dynasty ended with her, childless and
within 2 generations the bloodline that Henry VIII worked
to protect for generations by destroying his wives
collapsed.
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Mother of Queen Elizabeth I |
- The entire
justification for this marriage, the entire reason it was
worth the earthquake was a son and Elizabeth's birth didn't
solve that problem, it just put it off.
- Anne didn't sit
quietly as queen either, she used her position to actively
support reform-minded clergy and scholars.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Boleyn |
- George
Boleyn (1504-1536), Viscount Rochford, the Queen's own brother, stands
accused of crimes so monstrous that even the men reading the
charges seemed to flinch.
- Treason and adultery with the
Queen, incest with his own sister.
- The charges are
theatrical, fabricated, built from the testimony of frightened
servants and men who had been broken under interrogation.
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George knew this and he knew he was already condemned to
death.
- The trial was theater, a performance to justify
what the King had already decided.
- Then the court handed
him a piece of paper and the instructions were already clear.
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More demonic than manly |
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It was about whispered conversations between
Anne and her brother regarding the King's performance, inability
and private failures.
- The King no longer had the vigor or the
virtue he once had, the royal bedchamber is not a place of
triumph, it was a place of repeated humiliating failure.
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Mark Smeaton |
- Mark Smeaton (c. 1512-1536) was a musician at the court of Henry VIII, in the household of 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.
- On April 30, 1536, Smeaton was brought to Cromwell’s house in Stepney for questioning.
- He was not guilty of anything
and had only spoken to Anne Boleyn a few times, but he was
tortured until he confessed.
- Many feel that it was Smeaton's confession that
brought about the quick execution of Anne and so many others,
but Henry VIII had already planned the entire event so it had
nothing to do with Smeaton.
- Earlier writings described Smeaton as a painter but that has
recently been changed to musician but he was both.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Holbein |
- That's because Smeaton was
a clone of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), who was the Tudor court portrait
painter.
- Holbein was a German painter and printmaker
active in Switzerland and England who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th-century.
- He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design.
- Put it this way, he's a threat because he knows all the
faces, even today and he lived several lives as an important
portrait painter.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Ambassadors |
- Holbein is called 'the Younger' to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460/65-1524), an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.
- Hans Holbein was the court painter for Henry VIII and he
knows all the faces in the Tudor court.
- He died in London between October 7 and November 29, 1543, likely from the plague
although he didn't leave a gravestone or lasting monument.
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Jean de Dinteville, French Ambassador to the court of Henry VIII of England, and Georges de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur. The painting is famous for containing, in the foreground, at the bottom, a spectacular anamorphic, which, from an oblique point of view, is revealed to be a human skull. (Wikipedia)
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Anne Boleyn is Sophia |
- On May 15, 1536, at the Tower of London, the air is thick
with accusation, with fear, with the particular kind of
cruelty that only comes when powerful men have already decided
the outcome and are simply performing the process of false 'justice.'
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But here's the thing, neither Anne nor Mark Smeaton ever died,
and neither did Hans Holbein (who is Mark Smeaton).
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Although none of us really die, we're eternal, most
reincarnate and come back into a human life
- But the
fallen angels didn't allow any of them to reincarnate because
they knew they wouldn't take the wide path and follow the
light, that they would go to heaven instead.
- So none of
them were allowed to reincarnate and they were moved to new
lives every generation which is far more difficult for the
fallen angels to perform.
- However, because of this, none
of them have ever died and the bones they dug up and claimed
were Anne Boleyn's belonged to some other unfortunate
noblewoman.
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Arrow |
- Queen Anne Boleyn was famously said to have been buried in an arrow chest (an elm wood box or crate used for storing bow-staves and arrows) after her execution on May 19, 1536.
- Henry VIII had her marriage annulled and declared her a traitor, so no royal coffin or funeral was arranged.
- Her ladies-in-waiting retrieved a long wooden military chest or elm arrow-storage box from the Tower of London armory to place her body and severed head inside.
- She was interred without a ceremony in an unmarked grave beneath the floor of the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula inside the Tower of London.
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