5 stories mention Henry VIII on DeadlyCurious.
Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of London on 19 May 1536 with a French sword rather than the standard English execution axe. Henry VIII had paid for a substantial professional executioner to travel from Calais. The decision was made before the verdict was delivered.
Read the story →Henry VIII married six times between 1509 and 1547. Two of his wives — Anne Boleyn (1536) and Catherine Howard (1542) — were beheaded at the Tower of London. Two were set aside by annulment (Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves). One died of childbirth complications (Jane Seymour). One outlived him (Catherine Parr). The pursuit of his desired succession produced the foundational break with the papacy that became the English Reformation.
Read the story →The Franciscan Greyfriars Church on Newgate Street was the burial site of four major English royal women — Isabella of France, Margaret of France, Eleanor of Provence's heart, and Joan of the Tower. The church was dissolved in 1538, destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire, and the modern street pattern was laid out over the unrecovered burials.
Read the story →The Greyfriars Church at Newgate was the wealthiest Franciscan house in medieval London. It held the tombs of Isabella of France, Joan of the Tower, Eleanor of Provence, and Marguerite of France. The church was demolished in 1547 after the Dissolution; the bones now lie under modern Newgate streets and have never been recovered.
Read the story →The Greyfriars Church at Newgate was the Franciscan mother house in England and the burial site of Queens Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Joan of the Tower. Henry VIII's Dissolution stripped the church of its monastic income; the Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the rebuilt structure; the World War II Blitz finished the remains.
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