King Henry the 8th

[Gale_Snail]

heya! I dont know anything about the tudor period, and google etc hasn't provied anything useful....please could somebody give me 10 really interesting, and gory facts about king henry the 8th. Thanks in advance xx

[dot.hawkes]

oaths of loyalty were demanded of all clergy by the act of 1534, it became treason to call the king a heretic,a schismatic,a tyrant, an infidel or a usurper, he anted to prosecute the nun of kent, who had threatned the king with divine destruction if he failed to renounce anne boleyn, and thn of 883 suspects known to have ben accused of treason between 1532 and 1540, 178 were participants in the revolts of 1536 and 20 were victims of court politics, most of these were hung or beheaded, of the remaining 562 only 110 were executed and 98 of those were proven conspiritors against the king.

[SaxyJag]

He was one of the earliest exponents (if not the first) of the game of spheristike, which developed into the modern game of tennis and which we know today as 'real tennis'.

He also reputedly penned the tune we know as 'Greensleeves', although this can't be proved.

[Tatty Rollox]

...... well, Henry had the head of poor Anne cut off .....

[fat rascal]

our history teacher told us that his body exploded in the coffin en route to westminister abbey...all those nasty gases etc.... but not too sure if thats true?

[naomi24]

He founded Trinity College, Cambridge.

[Gale_Snail]

thank you guys! but thats only five and i need a couple more so can anybody give me a good link??????

[shaneystar2]

in 1513, before leaving for war in France, he executed Edmund de la Pole, his Plantagenet cousin held prisoner in the Tower since Henry VII's reign. Locked away for most of his life, Edmund was no threat to anyone. But Henry executed him to remind his subjects that, though he would be in France, any challenge to his authority would be met with grave displeasure.

[X111]

On the day before he had Anne Boleyn beheaded, mentioned and pictured above by Tatty Rollox, Henry had her brother, George Boleyn, and Francis Weston, William Brereton, Mark Smeaton and Henry Norris, all friends of Anne, beheaded.

[naomi24]

According to a leading historian of the day, some 72,000 executions were carried out during Henry's reign.