Henry VII of England

ages. Two rival dynasties were fighting over land in a struggle that is marked by numerous battles, multiple characters, and disregarded treaty after disregarded treaty. The land in question, known as Aquitaine or Guyenne, should have belonged to England, but was being treated as a French territory causing a conflict that would span over the rule of different monarchs on both sides. The war was long enough to be divided into three periods; the Edwardian War, Caroline War, and Lancastrian War…

story that most people refer to concerning Richard the Lionheart, along with Robin Hood. It is the story that gives us this noble view of the king, both fierce warrior and necessary to the well-being of his kindgom. Indeed, it is a dark time for England since Richard has been captured on his way home from the Crusades and his vile brother, Prince John, sits on the throne. The kingdom is also disrupted by the civil war between the Normans and the Saxons, which plot against the king. Ivanhoe is so…

Cromwell is in a position where he is trying to find dirt on More to blackmail him with and get More to acknowledge the Act of Succession. The Act of Succession is an act that calls for people to take the oath recognising Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII's children as legitimate heirs to the throne. Cromwell, who works for the King, seeks out Rich to help him and bribes him with a job as, “Secretary to the Council” (71). In order for Rich to secure this job, he would have to betray a man that…

1. The letter was written by Don Juan de Onate. He was a Spanish-American explorer, colonizer & father that led a group from Zacatecas known then as New Spain know now as Mexico present day Santa Fe. He led his party of 600 persons buy wagon, described as moving a village some four miles long. He was a person who left his country in disgrace and was hoping to please his Lordship and Majesty with the riches that he could claim for them. He hoped to obtain the Cedula that he didn’t receive in…

Thomas Cromwell, the High Chancellor of England, imposed a new way of life for the English. With not only raising political concerns like taxes and power, Cromwell further commanded the Catholic of England to transition their religion to Protestant, corresponding with himself and Henry VIII. Cromwell demolished monasteries, ripping the Church lands of the people. In response to these intense efforts to transform England into Protestant, the Catholics living in England formed a protest group of…

William Stubbs’s the Constitution History of England is an aggressive interpretation work which had a great impact in the discipline of history. During the late ninetieth century when William Stubbs wrote the influential piece in 1883, there was rise in nationalism in particular throughout Europe. In the Constitution History of England a common term in relation to nationalism that Stubbs was purposely asserting was the word “nation”. “Nation” is a relatively new form of concept that started to…

Sir Thomas More’s titular nation of Utopia has come to colloquially express a society free of conflict. A “Utopia” is that place where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically…

great-grandfather and a great-grandson. That is, in context of 11th and 12th Century England and the reigns of William I and Henry II of course. More specifically, the differences in kingdoms governed by the two. On October 16th 1066, William Duke of Normandy set sail for England, and soon enough was crowned King of England. Over a century later, his great-grandson Henry II sat on the throne of England, but the kingdom which Henry II ruled over was vastly different than that ruled by his…

characterization within the play Henry V. Proves suspicions that King Henry V did not believe the St. Crispin’s Day speech for his soldiers, but rather used it to further his own success. Shakespeare demonstrate this through the characterization of Henry. Shakespeare creates Henry to have characteristic such as, Henry’s immaturity, never to take the blame, his abuse of power through unnecessary games, and his deceiving and manipulative ways. A characteristic of Henry, Shakespeare highlights…

Mary Tudor I, Queen of England from July 1553 until her death, is well-known for her adamant persecution of Protestants. She tried her hardest to force people to follow her Catholic religion. However, hundreds, even thousands, refused, and Mary I was not willing to allow the people of England freedom of religion. Her battle with them proves the great importance of compromise. Mary Tudor was born on February 18, 1516 to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was the royal couple's…