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Court of Henry VIII
- Richard Page (courtier)Sir Richard Page was arrested on the 8th of May 1536, swept up in one of the most dangerous political storms of Henry VIII's reign.
- Levina TeerlincLevina Teerlinc held a position at the English royal court for thirty years, outlasting four monarchs and collecting an annual salary greater than the…
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJohn Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, died on the 22nd of August 1553 with a curious phrase on his lips: "I have deserved a thousand deaths." He had just…
- Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of SomersetEdward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, rose from a minor English noble family to become the effective ruler of England for two years, all because his sister…
- Henry Norris (courtier)Henry Norris died on the 17th of May 1536, on Tower Hill, and his last words were almost nothing at all. Where his fellow condemned men chose their scaffold…
- Thomas WolseyThomas Wolsey was born in about 1473 in Ipswich, the son of a man his enemies would mock as a common butcher. By 1515, he wore a cardinal's red hat…
- Nicholas Carew (courtier)Nicholas Carew entered the household of the future King Henry VIII at six years old. He shared his education with the boy who would become England's most…
- Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell was a blacksmith's son from Putney who died on Tower Hill with his head set on a spike above London Bridge.
- William Carey (courtier)William Carey died on the 22nd of June 1528, and the man who recorded his passing captured something strange about the moment.
- Hans Holbein the YoungerHans Holbein the Younger died in London sometime between the 7th of October and the 29th of November 1543, at the age of 45.