Add to ORKGSummer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII’s court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king's late 'black trumpet', John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is preparing a gift for King Henry: a masque of King Arthur and the Black Knight. Anthony is to take centre stage. The festive mood, however, quickly sours. Wolsey's historian, charged with proving the king's descent from King Arthur, is found murdered, his body posed in a gruesome tableau. A reluctant Anthony is charged with investigating the affair. His mission takes him on the path trod by the historian, through ancient monastic libraries and the back streets of London. On a journey that takes ...
Edward Stafford, the third duke of Buckingham, was condemned for high treason and executed on 17 May...
This research looks at the life of Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn the first publically exe...
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred yea...
The Jacobean plays that perform Henry VIII and his court struggle with Henry's paradoxical image and...
Henry VIII (1491 - 1547) acquired Oatlands Manor in 1537. A year before, on 30th May 1536, Henry had...
The story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII has been examined by many historians for almost 500 years. T...
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was captured and murdered by English sailors on 2 May 1450....
The luxury and scandal; the pleasures and pains of royalty have continually constructed and reconstr...
After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or sin...
This thesis is about court politics during the years of Wolsey's ascendancy and it is based upon a ...
1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he ...
Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham (d. 1521), is a key example in the historiographical inter...
The English King Edward IV (1442-83) had multiple political, familial, and cultural connections with...
The execution of William, lord Hastings, was one of a series of dramatic events leading up to Richar...
After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or sin...
Edward Stafford, the third duke of Buckingham, was condemned for high treason and executed on 17 May...
This research looks at the life of Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn the first publically exe...
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred yea...
The Jacobean plays that perform Henry VIII and his court struggle with Henry's paradoxical image and...
Henry VIII (1491 - 1547) acquired Oatlands Manor in 1537. A year before, on 30th May 1536, Henry had...
The story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII has been examined by many historians for almost 500 years. T...
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was captured and murdered by English sailors on 2 May 1450....
The luxury and scandal; the pleasures and pains of royalty have continually constructed and reconstr...
After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or sin...
This thesis is about court politics during the years of Wolsey's ascendancy and it is based upon a ...
1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he ...
Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham (d. 1521), is a key example in the historiographical inter...
The English King Edward IV (1442-83) had multiple political, familial, and cultural connections with...
The execution of William, lord Hastings, was one of a series of dramatic events leading up to Richar...
After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or sin...
Edward Stafford, the third duke of Buckingham, was condemned for high treason and executed on 17 May...
This research looks at the life of Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn the first publically exe...
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred yea...