Maybe, however, it is just a fiction, as Froude, Merriman and Pollard apparently thought. Hall says that Cromwell's enemies rejoiced at his misfortune, and some did invent accounts of it. Bizarre though it may seem nowadays, there were scaffold civilities that had to be observed. The headsman would kneel and ask forgiveness of the condemned, who would grant it gladly, with a smile, a kind word and maybe a gift.
There was no need for malice between the two. The one was not just the instrument of judgement, he was also sending the other out of this troubled life to a better world he hoped.
My guess, therefore, is that there was only one stroke of the axe, but this executioner behaved spitefully in some way that Hall does not describe in detail. Maybe Cromwell was manhandled, or maybe there was some coarse ribaldry before or after the deed was done. Others, like Hilles and Foxe, either did not know what had offended Hall, or if they did, they thought it not worthy of a mention. Cromwell, still cheerful, bid him take heart and not fear. And though the breakfast which we are going to be sharp, yet trusting to the mercy of the Lord, we shall have a joyful dinner.
Let us hope he enjoyed his dinner. And that Henry joined him shortly after. It is pleasing to think of them reunited in realms above. Likewise Henry and his six wives happily together at last, with no divorce trials or crises of conscience to worry about; and Elizabeth and other Tudor favourites, all perfect friends at the same convivial table, having a good old laugh at the stories we still tell about them.
By John Schofield. Thomas Cromwell painted by Hans Holbein the Younger. Sign up for our newsletter Enter your email address below to get the latest news and exclusive content from The History Press delivered straight to your inbox.
Sign up. Joined to him his sweet wife was very pretty, chaste and fruitful. Elizabeth died on 11 February , her 37 th birthday, only 9 days after giving birth to a baby girl. Sadly, her daughter only lived a few days and Elizabeth succumbed to a post-partum infection shortly thereafter. She met her day of death in the Tower of London on the 11th day of February in the year of our Lord [Old Style dating], having fulfilled the age of 37 years.
He married Catherine of Aragon on 14 November Sadly, their marriage was short lived, as Arthur died suddenly at Ludlow Castle on 2 April aged only 15 years. Unfortunately, the priory was sacked during the Scottish Protestant Revolution and fell into decay. Henry was King of England from 21 April until his death. After a very eventful life that included six wives and the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, Henry died on 28 January in the Palace of Whitehall.
Henry was interred in St. Instead he lies in a vault covered by a simple marble slab. Elizabeth died on the 14 September and was buried in the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey where a small monument marks her final resting place. She survived only eight days and is buried along with some of her other siblings in Westminster Abbey.
Catherine died on 7 January aged 50 at Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire and was buried on 29 January at Peterborough Cathedral. Read more about the death of Catherine of Aragon here. Tomb of Catherine of Aragon at Peterborough Cathedral. Read a complete fact sheet here. Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein the Younger It was probably made by Theodore Haveus of Cleves but was never finished.
The back part of the tomb has been mostly obscured by later monuments. Born Died ? Catherine Howard also spelled Katherine Unknown — 13 February Portrait miniature by Hans Holbein believed to be of Catherine Howard. Catherine was Queen consort of England from 28 July — 22 November She was found guilty of adultery and treason and executed on Tower Green on 13 February Peter ad.
Vincula at the Tower of London. Katherine died on 5 September aged circa 36 at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire and was buried in the Chapel of St. Mary at Sudeley Castle.
Jane Grey was the chief mourner. Katherine is thought to have died of puerperal fever, also called childbed fever. Mary at Sudeley. Mary succeeded her half-brother, Edward VI, in Mary died aged 42 at St. On 6 July , Edward died at Greenwich Palace aged His grave remained unmarked until a stone was inserted in front of the present altar. It reads:. Translated it reads:. Elizabeth I 7 September — 24 March She was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November until her death.
She died on 24 March at Richmond Palace. Thousands of people turned out to see her funeral procession to Westminster Abbey on April 28 The original wax effigy carried on her funeral hearse was remade in and it can be seen in the Abbey Museum.
She died the 24th of March, Anno [this is Old Style dating, now called ], of her reign the 45th year, of her age the 70th. Mother of her country, a nursing-mother to religion and all liberal sciences, skilled in many languages, adorned with excellent endowments both of body and mind, and excellent for princely virtues beyond her sex. James, king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, hath devoutly and justly erected this monument to her whose virtues and kingdoms he inherits.
Jane was proclaimed Queen after the death of Edward VI but never crowned. Her reign lasted only nine days. I have a question, I am also in relation to King Henry would you happen to have any relation to The Duke of Wellington? I am a descendant down through family and his great-great-great granddaughter. Annette, are you a Ramsey through marriage or birth? While studying my family tree I saw another tree that was, mostly and unfortunately, private but had my grandfather in it.
His cosmopolitan upbringing also gave him an edge over them. While this upset his noble rivals, his direct and bullish approach appealed to a king who had spent so much of his life surrounded by sycophants and flatterers.
Many more promotions would follow, bringing Cromwell great riches as well as immense power. It was almost certainly to celebrate his appointment as Master of the Jewels that Cromwell commissioned Hans Holbein, the most celebrated artist of the age, to paint his portrait. Far from flattering the sitter, it offers a brutally honest appraisal. The first impression is of a pensive and rather grumpy bureaucrat. Cromwell has a bulky frame and appears to be of middling height, although as he is seated this is difficult to judge.
Turned slightly to the right, his small, prying eyes stare intently at something in the middle distance. His eyebrows are slightly raised in a questioning, vaguely cynical stance, and his long, thin lips are pressed together in a line. Little wonder it is often thought that Holbein disliked Cromwell. In fact, though, they were firm friends. It was as the public statesman, not the private man, that Cromwell wished to be remembered. The portrait presents a compelling — if unflattering — testament to his brilliant mind and enormous capacity for hard work.
It is as if the painter has happened upon him in his study, deep in thought on some weighty matter. This is no unworldly academic, consumed by the ideas contained within the letters and books by which he is surrounded; it is a man of action, a shrewd and decisive pragmatist driven by a desire to succeed in all things.
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