On the 6th July 1535, Henry VIII's former friend and Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, was beheaded on Tower Hill. His crime? High treason.

Jul 6, 2016 · On 1 July 1535, Thomas More stood trial for treason, and he was condemned to death for ‘maliciously denying the royal Supremacy’. Five days later, while Henry hunted at Reading, More was beheaded on Tower Hill, proclaiming himself ‘the …

After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason on what he stated was false evidence, and was executed. At his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first." Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. [7] .

Feb 22, 2015 · The deaths of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas More shocked and appalled Europe. Henry’s reputation never recovered and was further blemished when he later executed two wives.

Sir Thomas More having remained a Prisoner in the Tower about a Week after his Sentence, on the 6th of July early in the Morning, his old Friend Sir Thomas Pope came to him with a Mes­sage from the King and Council, to acquaint him, That his …

Jul 6, 2020 · On this day in Tudor history, Tuesday 6th July 1535, Henry VIII’s former friend and Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, was beheaded on Tower Hill as a traitor. In today's talk, I share accounts of his execution, including one that gives real insight into More's personality, with his black humour on the scaffold.

Apr 23, 2020 · Sir Thomas More (1478-1535 CE) was a lawyer, scholar, statesman, and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) who was executed in July 1535 CE for his refusal to endorse Henry's break of the Church in England from the Catholic Church in Rome.

Jul 6, 2022 · In the video (or transcript) below, I share contemporary accounts of his execution, one of which gives us real insight into Sir Thomas More’s personality, with his black humour on the scaffold. I also talk about the fate of Sir Thomas More’s head and what his daughter Margaret Roper did with it.

On 6th July 1535, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII’s former friend and Lord Chancellor, was beheaded on Tower Hill as a traitor. He had been found guilty of high treason under the Treason Act of 1534 for denying the King’s supremacy and refusing to take the Oath of Succession.

This was the execution of Sir Thomas More, an act which was sounded out into the far corners of the earth, and was the world's wonder as well for the circumstances under which it was perpetrated, as for the preternatural composure with which it was borne.