Curated playlist
15th-century English nobility
- Anne HooAnne Hoo was the great-grandmother of the Anne who married Henry VIII.
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII broke England from Rome after the pope would not annul his first marriage.
- Elizabeth Cheney (1422–1473)Three of Henry VIII's six wives descended from Elizabeth Cheney, a gentrywoman who died in 1473.
- Elizabeth of YorkElizabeth of York died on her 37th birthday. She was Henry VII's queen and Henry VIII's mother.
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of SurreyTwo of Elizabeth Tilney's granddaughters became queens of England, but she died in 1497 before seeing it.
- Henry V of EnglandHenry V of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey on the 9th of April 1413, in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. Onlookers could not decide whether the weather was a good omen or a bad one. That uncertainty suited a king whose…
- Frederick TilneyTwo of Henry VIII's six wives descend from one obscure lord who died in 1445. He left only a daughter, Elizabeth.
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkThe Duke of Norfolk sentenced his own niece Anne Boleyn to death. Thomas Howard presided at her 1536 trial.
- John Howard, 1st Duke of NorfolkA note pinned to his tent warned John Howard not to fight at Bosworth. He rode into battle for Richard III anyway.
- Henry Percy, 5th Earl of NorthumberlandHenry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, died in debt despite being one of England's richest nobles.
- William Paulet, 1st Marquess of WinchesterWilliam Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, was once asked how he had come through so many storms at court not merely unhurt but climbing the whole time. His reply was five words long: "By being a willow, not an oak". The question was…
- Arthur, Prince of WalesPrince Arthur died six months after his wedding, and England's church later split from Rome.