Skip to content
Curated category

People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries

  • Henry VIIIHenry VIII was born on the 28th of June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent. He entered the world as the third child and second son of King…
  • Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…
  • William KingstonWilliam Kingston appeared as a yeoman of the guard before June 1509. He served under Sir Richard Wingfield at the French court early in 1520.