Henry III of England

In England during the 1500s, there had been only male monarchs and the females were only given the title of being Queen through marriage. However, in 1135 when Henry I had died, a female had the first chance to become Queen. Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I was going to be Queen of England, “not in the conventional sense of a king’s wife, but in the unprecedented form of a female king” (Castor, 2010). However, Matilda lost the crown of England to King Henry I’s nephew Stephen because he was…

Charles V. In 1555, the Peace of Augsburg suspended hostilities by requiring each state religion of its prince. Lutheranism continued to grow until 1570 while Calvinism new confession not recognized by the Peace of Augsburg, was spreading. The Frederick III, Elector of the Palatinate made it the religion of their states. Catholic reconquest made tensions rise: from 1552 the Jesuits had founded in Rome the German College for lost ground in Germany. The Tridentine Reform…

St. John, Margaret St. John. Third marriage-John Welles. Married: John de la Pole, married between 1444 and 1450, annulled by Henry VI by 1553. Edmund Tudor, married 1st November 1455-1456, his death. Sir Henry Stafford, 1458-1471, his death. Thomas Stanley, 1472-1504, his death. Vow of chastity in 1499. Children: Henry Tudor. Died: 29th June 1509, London, buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey. Brief Summary (Write a brief summary of…

Henry Tudor is born during the onset of the Wars of the Roses to an illegitimate bloodline which traces its roots back to John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster. This lineage belongs to the House of Beaufort, which was established when John of Gaunt had his son who was born of a mistress legitimized. The only stipulation to this legitimization was that the Beaufort line would never be able to enter the line of succession for the Throne of England. Sadly, the Yorkists which would oppose the Lancastrians…

King John of England, also known as John Lackland, was born either in late 1166 or early 1167 at the Tower of London. He was the youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, the latter controlling a ‘territory that stretched from the pyrenees in the south of France to the very borders of Scotland’. His father held considerable claims of territories at the time, and was part of a Royal House known as the Angevins. Due to the size of his controlled lands, they collectively became known…

Niccolo Machiavelli influences rulers and leaders throughout history such as Otto Von Bismarck, King Henry VIII, and Adolf Hitler. In Machiavelli's book The Prince he gives political advice on how to ruler and govern their land and to gain power. He says it's better to be cruel than merciful and that it's better to be stingy than generous. Bismarck, Henry VIII, and Hitler follow his advice on how to be a good ruler. Niccolo Machiavelli was a diplomat and writer who was born on May 3, 1469 and…

Thomas More was born in London in 1477 or 1488. Both his parents came from an upwardly mobile merchant 's class. His father, John, became a judge and chose the legal profession for his son. Very little is known of Thomas 's mother, Agnes, who died sometime before 1507. More began his education at St Anthony 's, a leading London school. Then he was sent to serve as a page at Lambeth Palace, the household of John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury. Morton 's patronage enabled More to spend…

Henry Garnett, one of the priests and the head of the Jesuit mission to England, went directly to Catesby and attempted to discourage their actions. He was unsuccessful and although he believed what they were doing was wrong, it has been proven that he never told anyone else of their plan.…

Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, Henry IV is the second play in the sequence. We talked briefly about the plot of Richard II and how Bolivar became king Henry IV. We then talked about the beginning of Henry IV in which the king is being plotted against due to his apparent forgetting of debts due, and his son whom behaves in a non-royal manner hanging out with thieves and commoners. We mentioned the idea that the central hero of Shakespeare’s historical plays was England itself always being…

union that lasted sixty years. It was also King of England and Ireland jure uxoris, by his marriage to Mary I, between 1554 and 1558. Territorial Expansion Except for the Holy Roman Germanic Empire, whose crown was given to Ferdinand I of Habsburg, King and Emperor Charles V bequeathed all European and American possessions that formed the Spanish empire to his…