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30 May 1536 – Henry VIII marries his third wife, Jane Seymour
This content is taken from 30 May 1536 – Henry VIII marries his third wife, Jane Seymour on The Anne Boleyn Files. On this day in history, 30th May 1536, just eleven days after the execution of his...
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30 May 1536 – A Royal Wedding
On Tuesday 30th May 1536, King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, daughter of Sir John Seymour, soldier and courtier, and of Margery Wentworth, in the Queen’s Closet at York Place (Whitehall). Henry and...
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4 June 1536 – Jane Seymour proclaimed Queen at Greenwich
According to Charles Wriothesley, chronicler and Windsor Herald, it was on 4th June 1536, Whitsunday, that Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour, was proclaimed queen: “Also the 4th daie of June, being...
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1 April 1536 – Henry VIII sends Jane Seymour a gift
In a letter dated 1st April 1536, Eustace Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, reported to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, that he had just received a message from the Marchioness of Dorset corroborating...
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25 April 1536 – God will send unto us heirs male
Stephen Gardiner, one of the ambassadors On this day in history, 25th April 1536, a day after the commissions of oyer and terminer had been set up by Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor, King Henry VIII...
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14 May 1536 – Jane Seymour moves to Chelsea
On 14th May 1536, King Henry VIII sent Sir Nicholas Carew to collect Jane Seymour from Carew’s country home, where Jane had been sent previously to prevent gossip about her relationship with the King....
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20 May 1536 – King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour become betrothed
On 20th May 1536, at nine o’clock in the morning, King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour became secretly betrothed. Read more… Read more hereThe post 20 May 1536 – King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour become...
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30 May 1536 – Tudor king marries third wife soon after dispatching second wife
This “on this day in history” event always makes me see red! Yes, just eleven days after his second wife, Queen Anne Boleyn, was executed at the Tower of London on trumped up charges – I think most...
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1 April 1536 – Henry VIII courts Jane Seymour
On this day in Tudor history, 1st April 1536, the imperial ambassador passed on information he’d received from two separate sources to his master, Emperor Charles V. The news was regarding Henry VIII...
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14 May 1536 – The rise of the phoenix, Jane Seymour
On this day in 1536, 14th May, while her predecessor and former mistress was in the Tower of London waiting for her trial, Jane Seymour was moved to be closer to the king and was treated like a queen....
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20 May 1536 – Henry VIII and Jane Seymour get betrothed – The Fall of Anne...
King Henry VIII wasted no time in May 1536. With wife number 2 dead and buried, he quickly moved on to wife number 3, getting betrothed to Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn’s execution and...
View Article20 May 1536 – Henry VIII wastes no time…
If I could go back in time and give Henry VIII a piece of mind, I would… well, perhaps not. It might not be safe to do that! The speed of events in May 1536 never fails to shock me, and the speed with...
View Article20 May 1536 – Henry VIII moves on
No matter how many times I read and write about it, Henry VIII’s behaviour in 1536 always disgusts me. Obviously, the whole fall of Anne Boleyn and those five courtiers is terrible, a real miscarriage...
View ArticleApril 1 – William Harvey, his experiments and blood circulation and Henry...
On this day in Tudor history, 1st April 1578, English physician William Harvey, was born in Folkestone, Kent. Harvey has gone down in history as being the man who discovered the circulation of blood,...
View ArticleMay 30 – Knights of the Bath for Anne Boleyn’s coronation, and another...
On this day in Tudor history, on the night of 30th/31st May 1533, as part of the celebrations for Queen Anne Boleyn’s coronation, which was scheduled for 1st June, eighteen men were created Knights of...
View ArticleJune 4 – Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour, is proclaimed queen
On this day in history, 4th June 1536, Henry VIII’s new bride, Jane Seymour, was officially proclaimed queen at Greenwich. Jane had become Henry VIII’s third wife on 30th May 1536, just eleven days...
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