The Execution of Sir Thomas More - The Anne Boleyn Files
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.
Thomas More - Wikipedia
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 ] .
The Execution of Sir Thomas More - Medieval manuscripts blog
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 …
Sir Thomas More Was Beheaded By The King Who Knighted Him
Feb 26, 2018 · Sir Thomas More was beheaded on July 6, 1535. His final words were: “I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first.” Sir Thomas More’s execution underscored the tyranny that King Henry would later become well known for.
Sir Thomas More - World History Encyclopedia
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.
The Trial and Execution of Sir Thomas More - University of …
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 …
The Execution Of John Fisher & Sir Thomas More
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.
6 July - The execution of Sir Thomas More - The Tudor Society
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.
July 6 - The execution of Sir Thomas More - The Anne Boleyn Files
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.
The Execution of Sir Thomas More, by James A. Froude.
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.
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