The MOST HORRIFIC Executions Of Henry VIII's Reign

Henry VII was the most notorious and brutal King of England who would order the executions of his closest friends and even two of his own wives it's estimated that around 70,000 people lost their heads and were executed in some of the most barbaric ways in history such as hanging drawing and quartering Henry the was known for his ruthless side and his violent tempers and rage but some of his executions showed his true colors and how much of a brute he could really be this is the most horrific executions of Henry the's Reign and as always to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe during the reign of Henry VII there were many executions which were very brutal the king executed some of his closest friends and advisers such as Sir Thomas Moore and Thomas cronwell and some of these are linked to the king's brutal side he even executed two of his own wives so was not afraid to order brutal killings to administer justice but it was at Smithfield which became linked to some of the most Savage executions of the time period as many Heretics or religious criminals were burned at the stake it was said during the reign of Mary the first Henry's bloody daughter who burned many people at the state there but it was also the sight of an execution of a man who wasn't guilty of treason but he was accused of poisoning some of his Masters in England the fear of poison was prominent especially with the upper classes and some of the kings and queens even forc servants are employed specific food tasters to sample food and meals before the king and queen would took into their food this was done to prevent poisoning and as hygiene wasn't great also drain the true the period often cases of food poisoning in meals could be linked to deliberate poisoning so food preparation was in a sense a very dangerous job it was inside of the bishop of Rochester John Fisher's house that an allegation of of poisoning would take place on the 18th of February 1531 Fisher was in his house having a meal with a number of his advisors and close attendance it was said in an act of parliament what occurred that afternoon and it was said on the 18th day of February 1531 one Richard Roose of Rochester cook also called Richard cook did cast poison into a vessel for the yeast or Bal standing in the kitchen of the bishop of Rochester's Palace at Lambert March by means of which two persons who happened to eat the pottage made from such yeast died so what happened is that Richard Roose a cook of Bishop John fiser was accused of poisoning yeast and then two people who ate the food made by the yeast died the two people who died were a gentleman named Bennett Cohan and also a widower who accepted John Fisher's offer of food inside of his house and her name was Alice trippet however the more Sinister element of a possible poisoning plot put the real t Target is possibly John fiser the bishop as it would not have made any sense for someone to aim to kill those two people but Fisher did not eat the porridge or the poison soup and he was unharmed as it's likely he was fasting during that meal but more people became ill and it was said that around 17 of Fisher's company had become violently sick and many of the diners that evening were those who had been welcomed into his house for charity with this fish's reputation could have been very damaged being linked to a plot to possibly poison the poor but Fisher's Brother Richard then immediately went after Richard Roose and tried to apprehend him and Order his arrest but Roose had already escaped from The Bishop's Palace as he ran it's likely this could have been an indicator of guilt but then Roose was quickly caught was then imprisoned inside the Tower of London but the fear of poisoning after this incident went into overdrive and panic throughout many upper class households in London and also in the Royal circles there was mass hysteria and panic over food being poisoned this fear even reached the king's Royal Court when Roose was interrogated it was not clear who had given Roose the poison to tarnish the food of John fiser but also with this there was suspicion as to whether Roose was linked to a larger plot with some Protestants planning to kill or assassinate John Fisher the bishop at the time was considered one of the greatest Catholic scholars in Europe and he had a great amount of influence in England this could have brought him into conflict with the King ESP is he would split from the Catholic church and the pope and also decree himself the head of the Church of England Henry VII did possibly have a moed to carry out the assassination of John Fischer as he had around this time started to try and find a way out of his marriage with Katherine of Aragon and he then tried to appeal to the pope to Grant him a divorce so he could marry amberin Bishop John fiser ultimately would later go to his own execution for refusing to support the king in his marriage to amberin and his position as the Supreme head of the Church of England but John fiser was considered one of the biggest problems in getting Henry his divorce or analment and fiser could have gone against the king and supported the pope Fisher did do this and he took Catherine of Aragon's side and because of this he crossed the king but Richard roou the cook was inside the Tower of London and was subject to some horrific punishment inside the notorious Fortress Roose was thrown onto the horrific torture device of the rack and was subject to a huge amount of pain he was put on the wooden frame and his arm and limbs were then Pulled Under incredible strain and the rack was a successful interrogation machine on Richard Roose whilst he was on the rack he admitted to putting what he believed was simply a laxative into the yeast and he claimed it was a certain poison or Venom and he then claims he dropped this in as a joke into the porridge pot Roose gave over no other names of possible Coke conspirators and he said that he knew that the white powder would cause some ill health or discomfort but he claimed he did not realize it could be fatal and he said he only put laxative in the food and nothing more more suspicion would fall on Henry VII and the family of his second wife and Bin as eustus chapi the Imperial ambassador to England for the holy ran Emperor would blame the English king and state he was guilty of organizing the suspected poisoning he claimed that Anne had written documents about how she wanted Fisher to die and how she hated him but because of his confession in the Tower of London Richard Roose was never tried was never brought in front of a jury to defend himself on the 28th of February 1531 Henry VII told parliament of the poisoning plot and Roose was then condemned to die based on what the king had said had happened rather than any concrete evidence the king's word was Final and he also expanded the definition of treason saying that Murder By poisoning would be classed as this he also then tweeted the sentence of death saying that this crime would be then punishable by boiling alive and this is exactly what happened to Richard Roose on the fifth of of April 1531 in front of a huge crowd in Smithfield Richard Roose was taken to his sight of execution he was subject to be bored alive in a huge pot and what the crowd saw that day would haunt them terribly an account from the chuda period titled the chronicle of the graay friar said of Richard ru's horrific death he was tied up in Chains then placed in a metal jibit frame before he was then lowered in and out of the boiling water this occurred three times until he was dead another account of ru's death stated that he roared mightily loud and divers women who were big with child did feel sick at the sight of what they saw and were carried away half dead other men and women did not seem frightened by the boiling alive but would prefer to see the headsman at his work there were very few executions that were as brutal as the boiling alive as the blood curdling screams would be heard all over Smithfield and Roose was lowered into the Boiling Pot of water it's likely that his skin disintegrated also and the fact it took just three dunks into the pot to kill him showed how brutal the method of execution was it is interesting to consider whether Henry VII specifically organized Richard roose's execution based on the fact he was a cook there could have been some mocking in this and that his execution could have been a rerun of his crime of poisoning as Roose was symbolically the poison which was being lowered into the boiling soup but it's also interesting to consider whether the King was covering his own tracks and whether he knew if the poison plot by denying a trial for Roose it was the king's word that would sentence him to death and he could have been doing this to cover his own tracks however the brutal King Henry VII would later get his own way with Bishop John fiser and sentence him to death and he and Amin would get what they wanted Fisher was executed for refusing to accept Henry as the head of the church and favoring the Pope in this role but Fisher would go to his death With Dignity unlike his cook who was bored alive in horrific fashion he was a chief minister to King Henry VII and was a leader of the Protestant Reformation who oversaw the dissolution of the monasteries Cromwell was a key political manipulator and he and the King got on incredibly well his rise to power was sharp but as many Who Rose too quickly and powerfully during the Judah period their downfall was equally barbaric cronwell met his end shockingly the sharp end of the axe on Tower Hill being executed in brutal fashion in front of a huge crowd Thomas Cromwell was born around 1485 in Putney near to the river temps west of the city of London he was the youngest of three children and his father was a blacksmith and Brewer his father was rather cruel and he often got into trouble with the law and authorities in 1503 at the age of 18 Cromwell left England to go to Europe and he joined the French army as a mercenary Soldier but but he did not like life in the Army he left and was unemployed in Italy inside of the house of a merchant but in Florence Cromwell was influenced by the culture and his master was regularly visited by Renaissance Scholars and artists such as Michelangelo he came back to England around 1512 and he began to establish himself as a merchant in London Cromwell wasn't happy settling for one job and he also began to practice law it was his career as a lawyer that would see him become familiar with King Henry 8 in 1514 he married Elizabeth Williams and the couple had at least three children and lived inside the city of London they were a thriving family and their marriage was peaceful and settled but tragedy did hit them within the space of a year Cromwell lost his wife and daughters to sickness and he never remarried he was Rising throughout London heavily and he was a successful businessman Cardinal waly who was a chief minister of Henry VII at the time supported Cromwell and together the two became very close waly was the most powerful man besides a king in England Cromwell became one of wal's most trusted servants and advisers and he was involved at the time in dissolving smaller religious houses to pay for a new college at Oxford during this time Cromwell learned the financial strength which could be gained from dissolving monastic buildings and he would do exactly the same for the king throughout his time in power Cromwell had a number of enemies at court who strongly disliked him Henry the e at the time had tried to get out of his first marriage with Catherine of Aragon the king's great matter played Henry as the pope would not Grant an analment this led to waly becoming embroiled in the conflict between the king and the pope and waly was used to try and obtain a divorce or enement waly regarded Cromwell as his beloved and the pair were very close but while serving waly Henry the E began to notice Cromwell and the King King was impressed with his loyalty and intelligence cronwell began to work for the king providing legal expertise with regards to getting the king out of his marriage whilst working on this he became very close to the king and also the queen to be and Belin he became a key Ally to the couple and he rose to power very quickly in April 1532 he became the master of the jewels which were kept at the Tower of London and he received many other roles his annual income in today's money was around £4 million which shows you how wealthy Cromwell really was he was placed in charge of dissolving the monasteries across England Henry eventually got what he wanted with the analment in May 1533 and amberin was later crowned in June 1533 Henry broke from the Catholic Church to do this and declared himself the Supreme head of the Church of England this meant it was he who was the head of the church and not the Pope in this era of change Cromwell took on his biggest task dissolving the monasteries and absorbing their riches into the Royal coffers the monasteries were some of the wealthiest institutions across England and their riches were stolen and sold to fund the king's lifestyle and Wars thousands of monks and servants found themselves homeless and jobless as Cromwell sent in his group of advisers to close down the monastic buildings there was outrage about this an opposition in the form of the protest to pilgrimage of Grace the North Rose up to demand that the change was reverted but this never occurred from the seizure of land the king became incredibly Rich seizing land Gold Silver and much more wealth a number of priests and monks who opposed were even thrown into prison and were also executed for their opposition those who refused to accept the king's Supremacy and Amin's queenship were also executed including the very highly thought of s Thomas mo but with amberin not being able to provide Henry with a male air the king eye wandered yet again and it was clear that Henry needed a way out of his marriage to an berin Cromwell created an intricate Web of Lies based on treason incest and adultery the San accused of these charges with five other men including her own brother an was then taken to the Tower of London placed on trial and later beheaded inside of the town was wed by a French swordsman on the 19th of May 1536 cronwell was even there to witness the execution but following an's death he Allied himself with Jane Seymour but cracks were appearing between him and the king the changes brought about by Cromwell saw him become a target for his enemies and following Jane Seymour's death after giving birth to Edward I 6 cromwell's demise came after the king had lost his third wife Crona was tasked with finding wife number four for Henry he proposed one of the Cleaves daughters German princesses for a match to establish a powerful European Alliance Henry dispatched H halai in his painter to create lifelike images of Amalia of cleaves and an of cleaves and when he returned Henry looking at the images chose Anne but when Henry saw her when she came to England in December 1539 Henry was greatly upset he screamed at Cromwell that she was nothing like the pictures and their marriage which had been arranged was a sham Henry searched greatly for a way out but he had to go through with it but the marriage was not con ated Henry later aned his fourth marriage and was forced to give Anne a significant amount of land and houses which cost him greatly but cromwell's enemies then stuck their claws in he was made the ear of Essex but his enemies were outraged by this and they spread rumors about Cromwell rebelling against the King Henry at the time was incredibly paranoid and ordered the arrest of his chief minister and Cromwell was accused of heresy and treason he was held inside the Tower of London and his enemies humiliated him and tore off the order of the gar he was declared a traitor and Cromwell who was one of the best lawyers in England was backed to find himself a way out but his enemies avoided a trial and didn't dare risk putting him on trial they thought he would be able to get himself off the charges and they convinced the king to pass a bill of a tainer this outline the crimes cronwell was accused of and he was condemned to die without the need for a trial there was only one way for him to escape execution and it was as if Henry pardoned him whilst being held in the tower he wrote several times to his former friend and begged the king for forgiveness and to spare him one letter said written at the tower this Wednesday the last of June with the heavy heart and trembling hand of your highness's most heavy most miserable prisoner and poor slave most gracious price I cry for Mercy Mercy Mercy Henry did nothing except to commute his death sentence from being hang drawn and quartered to a more straightforward beheading on the 28th of July 1540 Cromwell was walked the short Journey out of the Tower of London to Tower Hill the sight of his execution he was flanked by guards in the crowds who came to see his downfall he arrived and climbed the scaffold and spoke out to the huge crowd that had assembled he said I come hither to die and not to purge myself as some think par Aventure that I will he then stated he defended God and the king and he asked for the Forgiveness of them both he then said I die in the Catholic faith not doubting in many article of my faith nor in any sacrament of the church when he said this he did this as humor as he had caused such damage destroying parts of the Catholic faith in England forever with his brutal policies Cromwell continued to maintain his innocence and he continued to say many have slandered me and reported that I've been a bearer of such as I've maintained evil opinions which is untrue but I confess that like as God by his holy spirit do instructors in the truth so the devil is ready to seducers and I have been seduced he then committed his soul to Jesus Calling on his Mercy saying I see and acknowledge that there is in myself no hope of salvation but all my confidence hope and trust is in thy merciful goodness he then went on to commit his faith denied aiding any Heretics which protected his family from any further punishment it's debated what happened next with his execution some accounts State how the Executioner had a significant amount of difficulty separating his head from his body but other accounts say cromwell's head was taken clean off those who stated it took more than one blow argued that it took free to take his head off with the Executioner butchering the job the account of the botched execution states that Cromwell so patiently suffered the strong of the axe by a ragged and Butchery Miser who very ungodly performed his office there was rumors that his enemies paid the Executioner to do a bad job as they knew it would inflict more suffering to Cromwell after his beheading his head was placed on a spike above London Bridge following cromwell's execution the king greatly regretted everything that happened around the Scandal cromwell's Life and Legacy impacted thousands and it still felt today Henry's regret for the execution of his chief minister tells us that the Scandal around his marriage to an of cleaves was very regretful but Cromwell today is considered one of the most powerful men in chudah society he's a villain in the eyes of many and a man who it deemed had the king's back no matter what and Bin caused uproar and Chaos across England Henry the e was becoming very tired and fed up with his first wife Catherine of aragan and she could not provide him with the son he greatly wished for Katherine and Henry's marriage produced only one child that survived the later Queen Mary the first or Bloody Mary but Henry was desperate for a male air and he began to have his eye caught by amberin an arrived at court and was seen as a captivating young lady and Henry quickly made advances towards her despite still being married Anne rejected him a number of times and this was incredibly frustrating for him and Henry was forced to wait until he had sorted out an analment with Katherine both Anne and Henry exchanged gifts but the king's great matter played him and it was a time where no one could get a divorce let alone a king Katherine of aragan his first wife was a proud Catholic European Regent and she believed her marriage with Henry was sacred Henry tried everything to arase his and Katherine's marriage as he dreamed of amberin Henry tried to appeal to the pope for a divorce or an analment and even said he' sinned by marrying his dead brother's wife the pope would not give up and he banned Henry from marrying again until the decision came about his first marriage Cardinal waly was ordered to get a solution and to get the king his divorce but waly could not do this and he also fell from Grace but passed away before he could have been executed but Henry took action into his own hands and in 1531 he banished Catherine from court and took her royal Chambers and quarters away and gifted them to amberin this was seen as disgraceful and it caused chaos across England and Anne was almost nearly seized by an angry mob at one point Henry allowed Anne to perform many of the roles a queen would even despite not being one and she was given a peage which made her very rich and also benefited her family with the blinds becoming incredibly powerful and Wealthy Anne was the apple of Henry's eye and she was married to the king in secret on the 14th of November 1532 and it's alleged she then became pregnant after this the there was a second wedding but then a trial decreed that Henry's marriage to Catherine was in fact a sin and invalid 5 days after the marriage of Henry and an was declared valid and Catherine of Aragon was stripped off her queenship an bin was crowned queen consort on the 1st of June 1533 at a large ceremony at Westminster Abbey it was clear that an was pregnant there was hope that she would give birth to a son and a new air to the throne but following the ceremony she was paraded throughout the streets but large amounts of the population disliked her the pope excommunicated Henry because of this and he condemned the marriage of Henry and Anne and the pope tried to cause more issues the king forced all of his advisers and close friends to accept the active succession and also that Anne was the rightful Queen and forc them to turn their back on the pope a number of Henry's closest friends and advisers such as Thomas Moore could not accept this and they paid for this with their lives it was said that Henry was also the Supreme head of the church that he had Authority on the church within England and not the pope this religious turmoil was caused all by Amin's marriage with the King but an also began to acknowledge protestantism and promoted this within her court but Anne was then sent to Greenwich Palace to await the birth of her child there was much hope that this was a son but her daughter Elizabeth was born and despite Elizabeth going on to become one of the best Queens England as ever had this was not what the king wanted this disappointed Henry VII but he was prepared to try again for the male air Anne was seen as a lavish spender at court and she had a number of household staff that performed different roles and even had 60 Maids of Honor her and the King's relationship was happy and she oversaw Court spending large amounts of money on luxuries and decorations but Henry was obsessed with his desire for a son and following a miscarriage in 1534 Henry discussed the idea of divorcing amberin for the first time he had spoken to Kar and Cromwell about this but then the idea disappeared for a while an became pregnant yet again and continued to hope for a son that would get her out of immediate danger but the king began to grow tired of her as Henry had broken from Rome he was free to do as he pleased and this would have made an's position rather tenuous and uneasy it was around this time that Henry began to look towards Jane Seymour one of an's ladies in Waiting he gifted Jane a locket with a portrait of them both inside and Jane wound up Anne by continuing to open and close this whilst in her company Anne was so angry that she RI this off Jane and cut her fingers doing so but around this time Henry had a very horrible jousting accident at a tournament where he was knocked out for two hours and it's believed that the stress of this caused an to miscarry a baby that many believed was a son when Henry later recovered this was a start of the end for an and Henry Henry driven by the desire for a male air was fed up with the miscarriages Anne had and he said he fell under her Witchcraft and spells and because of this she was forced out of the Royal Apartments Henry then put Thomas Cromwell to task to get him to find a way out of the marriage Cromwell crafted an expert Web of Lies in deceit against amberin which saw her being accused of treason incest and adultery with a number of other men Cromwell used all of his experience of truda politics to Target an at court and he interrogated those on the periphery of an's circle and he managed to get evidence that he believed could bring the Queen's downfall a number of men were arrested including her own brother George all of the men accused were executed in bloody fashion including her brother Anam was indicted on charges and was taken to the Tower of London on the second of May 1536 when she arrived at the prison she broke down asking for her father she was tried along with her brother inside the Tower of London and all of those accused including Anne was sentenced to death Anne's trial was a sham and all of the evidence it's believed was false and manufactured the men accused with her were executed on the 17th of May 1536 on Tower Hill but it was said that an inside the tower was at peace with her impending death she could have been burned at the stake but the king commuted her death sentence to a simply beheading fetching a French swordsman to perform the execution as he believed it would be more reliable on the day of her execution the conal of the tower William Kingston wrote this morning she sent for me that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency always to be clear it was said that an said I heard say the Executioner was very good and I have a little neck and then she put her hands about it laughing heartily I've seen many men and also women executed and they have been in great sorry and to my a knowledge this lady has much joy in Death Before Dawn on the 19th of May she had called the conable of the tower to hear Mass with her and she prayed she'd never been unfaithful to the king she was given the sacrament and she was told to ready herself as if executioner was waiting she left the Royal apartments inside of the Tower and was surrounded by four servants who followed Kingston to the scaffold at 9:00 she was dressed in a red Petticoat and was joined by two female attendants making her final walk from the Queen's house to the scaffold it was said that she seemed positive then she made a short speech on the scaffold amberin was allowed to be executed in private inside the Tower of London being spared the eyes of the public on Tower Hill but there were a large number of people who were there to witness the beheading of the queen and said to the crowd good Christian people I come hither to die and therefore I will speak nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speak anything of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die but I pray God Save the King and send him long to Reign Over You he was ever good gentle and Sovereign Lord this I take my leave of the world and of all you and I heartedly desire you all to pray for me oh Lord have mercy on me to God I commend my soul it was said that her speech had a profound effect on the crowd and her voice wavered in weakness at times an made a number of people cry then her ladies prepared her for her execution she thanked her women for their service and told them to pray for her and the Executioner then asked for his forgiveness and an handed him a sack of coins as payment one of her ladies then place a blindfold over her eyes and she knelt and said her final prayers she seemed dazed as she knelt on her knees in the straw and she faced the crowd and said oh Christ receive my spirit she did look scared and her women then began to cry at the scenes within seconds a few more prayers were said then the Executioner Unleashed his sword from a lump of hay to gasps in the crowd in one blow he struck Queen Amin's head clean off and she lost her life her head fell into the straw and it was covered by a white handkerchief and cannons along Tower Warf fired marking the execution of amberin Thomas Cromwell was even there himself to witness the proceedings then her head and body were taken by her ladies to dispose of it they placed her body and head in an arrow chest this was then taken inside the chapel of St Peter AV vinula for burial Amin's death and execution was incredibly sad and was manufactured expertly by Thomas Cromwell well and it was incredibly shocking her downfall was linked with failed pregnancies and the fact she could not produce a son that Henry VII wanted so badly but it's ultimately the king's wandering eye that secured her downfall and death today she seen as a tragic second wife of King Henry VII and a victim of the king's brutal side Jane bin was born Jane Parker and was the daughter of Henry Parker the 10th and moley through her great-grandmother Jan was a distant relative of King Henry VII and the King was her half second cousin she was born around 1505 in Norfolk and her family were wealthy and were powerful members of the English upper class but her father was a man who wanted Jane to become involved in the Royal courts and at 14 she joined the household of King Henry VII's first wife Catherine of aragan she was part of the royal party that attended the field of the cloth of gold Summit with the French King Jane was considered an attractive woman and she took part in different Court masquerades and entertainment but around 1525 she was married to George bin the brother of ellin who later became the second queen of Henry VII an at this time was not romantically linked to the king but she was a powerful woman at court when the couple married the king gave Jane and George a mansion grimston Mana in Norfolk and Jane was then made VI count as Rochford following George becoming known as vicount Rochford as the Bim family grew in their wealth and power following Anne's cing of Henry VII Jane and George benefited greatly they were given more palaces and also were able to furnish these out with huge Renovations and luxurious items they spent huge sums of money on this however the marriage has been portrayed as an unhappy one one historian claimed that George was not interested in Jane that according to George Cavendish he lived a wild lifestyle Cavendish said George ran wild deflowering women and forced windows and it's believed he had many extra marital Affairs behind his wife's back but when amberin became Queen Jane was now a royal sister-in-law and she would also become the aunt of Princess Elizabeth the future Elizabeth I but it's believed that amberin and Jane bin did not get on and that Jane may have been very jealous of the Queen of England she would Unite with the queen to banish one of the king's Mistresses but when Henry thei found out about this he was Furious and he banished Shane berin from court for a number of months but after being married for 11 years George bin Jane's husband would spectacularly Fall From Grace Henry VII wanted to get rid of his second Queen however Cromwell implicated George in the affair Jane's husband was accused of treason incest and adultery sleeping and plotting with his sister and Bin to bring the death of King Henry VII Elizabeth Somerset the Countess of Worcester is believed to have given evidence against an and her brother but there was no truth to this but regardless George would be sentenced to death and would be executed there were rumors that Jane bin even testified against her own husband to seek revenge upon him she was a bitter woman and there have been suggestions that this was the truth but it's not categorically confirmed whether she did this or not Jane's perception in history is that she was a wicked woman who turned against her husband but recently her reputation has gone through some kind of transformation it has been written J Rochford found herself dragged into the melstrom of intrigue innuendo and speculation for when Cromwell sent for Jane he had already much of what he needed not only to bring down an and her Circle but to make possible the king's marriage to Jane Seymour faced with such Relentless incessant questions which she had no choice but to answer Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her Jane had been not quick to tell Tales but she had buckled under the pressure of Relentless questioning and it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors happy to find a scapegoat to exonerate the king from the heinous charge of callously killing his innocent wife the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed George and Anne George bin was executed on Tower Hill on the 17th of May 1536 in front of a large crowd he spoke to the crowd and talked about his beliefs but there were four other men who were executed alongside him Amin was executed two days later inside the Tower of London it's not known whether Jane witnessed the executions of her husband or sister-in-law but following the execution the bin family Fell From Grace the lands owned by them were given up and Jane bin was absent from court for a number of months she tried to secure her finances and negotiated with Thomas mein and also with Thomas Cromwell she was given a decent pension and later she became a lady in waiting to Jane Seymour the king's third wife she was allowed a number of servants in a room inside of the royal palaces and she also had a number of expensive meals to live it each day but after Jane Seymour's death Jane bin was a lady who helped the king testify that his fourth wife an of cleaves and the King did not consumate their marriage with this the king then married Katherine Howard his teenage mistress and fifth wife because of her help to the king with an of cleaves she became a senior lady in waiting to the new Queen Katherine Howard Henry the 's 5th one wife but Catherine it's believed had been with men before and at the time this was considered unacceptable for a woman who married the king but Catherine had gone further she was allegedly having Liaisons with Thomas Co pepper the king's close friend and favorite courtier whilst the court was on progress in different Castles a pair would meet up and these Liaisons were facilitated by Jane Jane was the one who organized some meetings and Catherine would later be arrested when the information about this came to light but Jane bin was also arrested too inside of the Tower of London Jane bin was imprisoned and she was also interrogated heavily by the king's officials she had a complete nervous breakdown in the tower and at the start of 1542 she was declared insane she would have fits of frenzy but because of this it meant that the king could not legally allow Jane to be placed on trial for her involvement in facilitating the Queen's adultery but to allow this to happen Henry VI e even changed the law of the country to allow high treason charges to be used against even the insane but Jan was then sentenced to death for an act of attained her and her execution date was scheduled for the 13th of February 1542 inside of the tower the place of her imprisonment first Catherine Howard the king's fifth wife was executed by an ax-man the blood of the queen was littered all on the scaffold which had been covered in hay and shortly after this Shane Bim was brought out to her death despite being declared insane Jan was said to have been calm and dignified when she approached the Executioner and one witness said their souls must be with God for they made the most Godly and Christian end the French Ambassador said that Jane made a long speech and she apologized for her many sins the Executioner then asked for Jane's forgiveness and she knelt on the scaffold and rested her head on the Block before in one swift blow of the axe she was beheaded she was buried inside the Tower of London's Chapel close to the remains of her husband Jan Bin's reputation throughout history is one which is rather divisive as some historians believe she had been treated unfairly throughout the centuries however she was a woman who helped the queen cheat on the king the dangerous Henry VII who was responsible for thousands of executions and he was a man who had a violent and brutal side and he could turn on his close friends but Jane lost her head inside the Tower of London like her sister-in-law and her friend Catherine Howard Thomas Moore was born in February 1478 inside of London to a father who was a lawyer whilst he was young he briefly spent time in the household of John Morton the Archbishop of Canterbury this stood the young boy in Good stead for his future career following his schooling he then attended Oxford University and qualified as a lawyer Moore was a Pious young man and he did consider becoming a monk also but favored a career in the league profession he rose throughout London and worked as one of the unders sheriffs of the city from 1510 to 1518 but in 1514 he had become involved in Royal Affairs he was appointed as a master of requests and then also became a member of the privy Council which brought him into almost daily contact with Henry VII and a number of other prominent members of Judah Society he was part of a delegation sent to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles I and around 1515 he wrote the history of Richard III this book documented the life of the notorious King and established Richard as a tyrannical ruler but in 1516 he wrote his most significant work Utopia and this was published in many different countries he continued to rise throughout the reign of King Henry VII and was kned and then he became the under treasur of the ex cheer in 1521 this placed him involved in Royal finances and he also became a secretary and close adviser to the king and his influence over Court began to grow he was seen as a prominent member of court and a reliable one he was involved in drafting official legislation for the king and also Cardinal walty as well as welcoming diplomats and visitors to court his growing reputation led him to become a member of parliament for Middle sex and he also became the Speaker of the House of Commons and the chancellor of the duche of Lancaster in this role he was involved in Justice and law in the north but Moore's greatest role saw him become the the king's Lord Chancellor in 1529 Cardinal Thomas waly who formerly held this position had fallen from Grace after he could not gain the king his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon he later died but by becoming the Lord Chancellor Mo was one of the most powerful and significant people in the whole of England he worked for a number of years closely with the notorious Judah King but it was in this position that Moore Fell From Grace rather sharply Mo was Aston and strong Catholic and also supporter of the church in Rome but Henry VII would split from Rome and this caused huge problems for Thomas mo he saw the Protestant Reformation which was taking hold across Europe as a gross Act of heresy and even began to persecute prominent Protestants within England he later had to contend with the king's break from Rome which went against his own beliefs he banned Protestant texts in the works of Martin Luther from arriving in England and spreading and he was also involved D in investigating Protestants he investigated book publishers who could have been printing the books he deemed to be heretical and anyone who possessed a Lutheran text or translated Bible was arrested he also opposed William tindale's translation of the New Testament into English and he found it horrifically offensive in Fox's book of Martyrs it was documented that Thomas mo was involved in the persecution and torture of many Protestants in England and that he personally used violence to obtain confessions One account states that Mo tied Heretics to a tree and whipped them and that he went further using barbaric torture devices such as Iraq Thomas Moore also sentenced a number of Heretics to death and had them burned at the stake in Smithfield and he also later admitted using torture on Heretics including children but although he was known for acts of brutality today he's considered a saint by many inside of England as Henry the 8 split from Rome it was clear that Moore had an issue of accepting the king's Supremacy over the church in opposition to the pope Moore supported the pope over the king and he refused to accept Henry and refused to sign a letter in 1530 asking the pope to anal Henry's marriage to his first wife Katherine of Aragon Henry VII made a law stating it was a crime to support the pope or anyone else's Supremacy over the church and more argued personally with the King over a number of points with regards to religion in 1531 Henry issued a law that forced all the clergy to support the king's Supremacy and rooll as a supreme head of the Church of England and mo as expected refused to accept the oath of Supremacy he went further also and rejected the analment of Henry and Catherine and because of this Defiance it was clear his career was only going one way Moore was forced to resign from his role as Lord Chancellor on the 16th of May 1532 but he did stay at court to advise the king but his religious views in opposition to the changes and also amberin caused him to lose his job he refused to attend the coronation of Ulin as the Queen of England and this grossly offended the king and new Queen his refusal to attend was viewed as opposition to the Royal pair and Henry took strong action and charged him with the crime of taking bribes this was dismissed but then Thomas Cromwell was put to work trying to find charges against Mo Cromwell accused more of giving advice to the nun of Kent Elizabeth Barton who predicted the death of Henry VII this was seen as more being implicated in treasonous comments but on the 13th of April 1534 Moore was summoned to a meeting regarding the act of succession he was told to swear his allegiance to it and accepted parliament's right to declare and the queen but refused to accept the second marriage questioning the spiritual validity of it and saying that Henry and Anne's marriage was not not viewed in God's eyes as proper he refused yet again to sign the oath of succession and he preached to the meeting about the pope Supremacy over the church but for more this was enough he rejected Henry's Supremacy over the church yet again and rejected his second marriage and for this was sent to the Tower of London to be imprisoned whilst he was held at the notorious Tower Cromwell did visit a number of times to try to get him to change his mind but Thomas mo was willing to die for his conscience he was charged with treason and was tried on the 1st of July 1535 his judges included Amin's father brother and Uncle which meant he stood no chance he refused to answer a number of questions but Cromwell had gathered a star witness Richard Rich who stated that in his presence Mo had denied the king's Supremacy as the head of the church Moore did question this but he was found guilty of treason 15 minutes later and was sentenced SED to death after his guilty verdict was announced he said no temporal man may be the head of spirituality and stated that the king's active Supremacy went against Magna cartar but he was sentenced to die a horrific traitor's death to be HD drawn and quartered but Henry did allow some concessions switching his method of execution to a more simpler beheading which was regarded as less painful on the 6th of July 1535 Thomas Moore was brought from the Tower of London to Tower Hill where he was to face his execution the crowd that day was huge and they saw a man who believed he was doing the right thing going to his death an account written at the time of his execution tells us what happened it says about 9 he was brought out of the tower his hair was long his face pale and thin and carrying a Red Cross in his hand he often lifted his eyes to Heaven a woman meeting him with a cup of wine he refused it Christ at his passion drank no wine but Gall and vinegar he said another woman came crying and demanded some papers she said she had left in his hands when he was Lord Chancellor to whom he said good woman have patience but for an hour the king will rid me of the care I have for those papers and everything else another woman followed him crying he had done her much wrong when he was Lord Chancellor to whom he said I very well remember the cause and his eye were to decide it now I should make the same decree when he came to the scaffold it seemed ready to fall whereupon he said merrily to the leftenant pray sit see me safe up and as to my coming down let me shift for myself being about to speak to the people he was interrupted by the sheriff and thereupon he only desired the people to pray for him and bear witness he died in the faith of the Catholic Church a faithful servant to God and the King then kneeling he repeated Ed The Miser Psalm with much devotion and rising up the Executioner asked him for forgiveness he kissed him and said pick up thy Spirits man and be not afraid to do thine office my neck is very short take heed therefore thou strike not ay for having thine honesty laying his head upon the block he bid the Executioner stay till he put his beard aside for that had committed no treason thus he suffered with much cheerfulness his head was taken off at once blow and was placed upon London Bridge where having continued for some months and being thrown into the temps to make room for others his daughter Margaret brought it closed in a Leen box and kept it for a relic Thomas Mo's execution took place on Tower Hill and the sight shocked the large crowd his head was taken clean off with one swing of the axe the Executioner doing his job well after this his remains were taken into the Tower of London and were buried inside the chapel of St Peter AV vinula with his head then being placed on a pike above London Bridge to tell people not to mess with the King but Thomas Moore's execution on Tower Hill was incredibly shocking as at the time he gained a huge amount of power during the reign of King Harry VII but he went to his death a man who could not relent upon his own beliefs and because of his religious convictions he was executed Crossing Henry VII he rose to the position of Lord Chancellor but fell incredibly sharply today he's seen as a celebrated scholar of the truda period And as a key Renaissance philosopher and author one of the most tragic wives of King Henry VII was Katherine Howard she was just a teenager when she married the grotesque and large Judah monar who was around 30 years older than her she was just a young woman who had been treated terribly by a number of men throughout her short life and she met a brutal and bloody end on the 13th of February 1542 she made her way from her apartments in the Tower of London to the scafford on Tower Hill there an executioner stood armed with an axe and in one swift blow the head of Catherine Howard the queen was taken clean off she had been implicated in cheating on Henry VII and along with two other men was executed but one of those men killed for his involvement with her was Thomas Co pepper one of the closest friends of King Henry VII but who is this man that slept with the king's wife Thomas copper was born in 1514 and was a second son of Alexander cor pepper and his second wife Constance Harper his older brother would later go to work for Thomas Cromwell and his brother was known for being someone who was responsible for collecting valuable items and luxuries for the king and the royal family whilst they were at court he was related to the Howards at the time and was a distant cousin of Joyce cor pepper the mother of Katherine Howard the queen he would later have an affair with but following the fall of cardinal waly and during the reign of Queen amberin Henry the8's second wife Thomas cor pepper found himself gaining significant amounts of favor at the Royal Court he purchased an estate named hen park near to Canterbury in 1534 and he was then a courtier for Vi count Lyle and his wife and he was then given a number of gifts including a hawk but then he was tasked with helping to get a hawk for King Henry VII with this he was invited to the Royal Court and he was seen as a very handsome young man was a favorite of the king it's believed that Co pepper had a significant amount of power over the king as Henry the e was close with him for example in 1539 he was able to practically ignore a scandal that gripped his family as he was accused of assaulting the wife of a park keeper and their murdering a villager there were murmers that his brother was the one who actually did this but following this his elder brother who was also named Thomas was then given a Knighthood and then through the king a pardon for this shocking crime was given this shows that Henry the e was so fond of Co pepper that he could make any crimes that would carry the death penalty disappear that Co pepper did Co pepper was then given the title of the keeper of the royal Armory and he was then made a gentleman of the king's privy chamber this gave him even more access to the king as he would dress and undress him and he often chatted with the King late into the night and slept in his bed chamber after they spoke for hours to reinforce his positive relationship with Henry VII the king dispatched Co pepper to go and greet his future fourth wife an of cleaves when she landed in England to prepare for the marriage this marriage did not go well as Anne shun the king and did not realize who he was when she met him and Henry VII then spoke out terribly about her looks but following this cor Peppa was then given pener Palace and further Land by the king at this time it was clear that the King was very fond of Thomas K pepper and the two were very good friends but as Henry VII was betrayed to Catherine Howard a very young girl compared to him the young Catherine then took a shine to call Peppa this was in 1540 in the same year that Katherine Howard was made the queen consult of England but things quickly turned and Catherine saw more in the young Thomas Co Peppa than she did the king her husband who was now aging and very unpredictable with this Katherine's lady in waiting lady rashford Jam Berlin then helped organized illicit meetings between Katherine Howard and Thomas copper the pair would meet together late into the night they would spend lots of time together it was this affair that caused both of their executions Co pepper being so respected and liked by the King was trusted and had access to the Queen's Apartments they then came in contact with her ladies also in March 1540 Henry VII was away on a trip to DOA and Katherine Howard was then left behind at grenwich Palace at this time Co pepper asked Katherine for a number of favors and they then met together around this time and had private meetings and presumably relations in their Chambers lady rashford arranged these when the queen was seeing Co pepper only one of her lady in waiting Katherine tilney was ever allowed access to Katherine's room on the 20th of June 1541 Katherine and the King traveled to York to meet the Scottish King and they arrived in Lincoln on the 9th of August it was here where Co pepper met Catherine once again for a secret meeting in her bed chamber and then this continued on the Journey For example at ponti frat Castle it was believed a letter was sent from Katherine to co pepper in which she wrote how worried she was that he was ill and she stated I never long so much for a time as I do to see you and speak with you the which I trust shall be shortly now and for a time as I do see and seek with you and my trust is always in you that you will as you promised me with with this it's believed that Katherine Howard was genuinely in love with Thomas Co pepper and it placed him in a strong position at the time Henry VII was hugely overweight and burdened with poor health and if the king died then Co Pepper would have been a contender to have reigned for the young boy King Edward the 6 he was also very trusted by Henry VII and the pair were very good friends and he even used his position with the King to exert control over Katherine Howard his wife she finished her letter with yours as long as life endur showing that she wanted to actually be with him but the news of the affair between the queen and Co Peppa attracted the attention of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas crar he heard the rumors and cor pepper was then held under arrest the pair denied their Affair but the letter was found and this was seen as incriminating evidence for it with this there was also a reference to Jane bin then Henry the E ordered cor Peppa's arrest in December 1541 he was tried for adultery along with Francis daram a man who was accused of adultery with the queen before she married the king Catherine had not made any attempt really to hide the affair she had with Co Peppa and members of her household then tried to save themselves by actually testifying against her the queen was seen as a woman who seduced Co pepper then a number of these private meetings were discovered but under torture it's believed that Co Peppa then admitted his relationship with the queen with this he was sentenced to death and was initially sentenced to be hanged drawn and quartered which was a brutal method of execution to escape this he appealed to Henry VII and because of his friendship with the King Henry did spare him being hang drawn and quartered and instead he was beheaded by an axan this was seen as a kind thing for Henry to do he was then taken from his place of imprisonment to tyburn on the 10th of December 1541 he made his way to the scaffold and there met with the Executioner he he was a man considered one of the most disgusting traitors for sleeping with the king's Queen he was quickly beheaded by axe but then shockingly his head was placed on a spike above London Bridge to act as a strong reminder to the people of London not to cross the king he enjoyed a much quicker death than Francis Daren did as he was spared the long ordeal of being hanged drawn and quartered it was said that as Katherine Howard was taken to the Tower of London for her imprisonment and execution that she passed under the head of Thomas copper and her other lover she was brutally executed by the Axeman in the same manner on the 13th of February 1542 as was Lady Rochford the woman who it was deemed facilitated their relationship it was a bloody end for four people embroiled in a scandal centered around sleeping with Henry the ap's wife John Fisher was born in 1469 in Yorkshire and he was the eldest son of a wealthy Merchant but his father died when he was eight and his mother remarried and had a number of other children Fisher went on to study at Cambridge University before he was ordained as a priest in 1491 and he had a number of Royal supporters he was backed by Lady Margaret bord the mother of King Henry I 7th and he became her Confessor in 1497 and he convinced her to found Christ college and St John's College at Cambridge University Fischer was close with Margaret and after her death he became the chancellor of Cambridge and also the bishop of Rochester he was seen as a perfect to model Bishop at the time and he was very busy with his own dases he went to different churches and also visited and cared for people inside of his land of responsibility he was an active preacher who was very enthusiastic and he was clearly talented he was even appointed to preach the funeral oration for King Henry the 7th and Lady Margaret but despite fish's status within the church he did come into conflict with one of his of his former pupils the new King Henry VII problems arose with regards to the money left by Margaret bord four colleges at Cambridge and the King was jealous of this believing he was entitled to this money Fisher was a brilliant scholar and he alluded to being the author of The Royal treaty against Martin Luther and the criticisms of the church he published in 1521 Henry VII following this work was then given the title The Defender of the Faith by the Catholic church and Bishop preached sermons in cathedrals across the land against Martin Luther and the Reformation he was staunchly anti-protestant and ordered the arrests of reformative priests and preachers Fisher was prospering greatly in chudar England and he was in the king's good books but following Henry the ap's wish to divorce his first wife Katherine of aragan things changed massively for him Fisher was involved in the theological proceedings against Katherine of aragan and the King was desperate to have the support of leading writers and also fer Fisher to began with back to the king but he came into the conclusion that the king would divorce Katherine of Aragon in order to marry amberin and therefore he would split from Rome being a man of his conscience Fisher went against the king and Henry became a target of Fisher's preaching he was an outspoken critic and Fischer was a strong supporter of Catherine in the proceedings and wrote letters to support the queen and also published propaganda in support of her this was incredibly Brave and he believed deeply that the pope ruled Supreme Over the church and that to reform the Church should be done only by the pope and not the monarchy of a country in 1531 he refused to accept Henry VI's title as a supreme head of the Church of England and refused to acknowledge the act of Supremacy later on he also refused to acknowledge amberin as the rightful Queen of England and he later refused to acknowledge The Heirs of an and Henry as the rightful ones to the throne but because of this he was imprisoned inside the Tower of London he was held and imprisoned on the 26th of April 1534 and at this time he was an elderly man in his mid-60s and he was rather ill there were attempts to get him to submit and take an oath but these did not work Fisher was accused of treason and things got tougher for him inside the tower as he was held inside the cold in Dark Cells within the tower and he was underfed to get him to give in he was inside the Tower of London for over a year and he was allowed food and drink sent in from friends was even allowed a servant but it was not allowed a personal priest fiser was in correspondence with Cromwell about his imprisonment and how harsh things were but he was caught like a rabbit in the headlights Richard Rich a member of Court tried to catch fiser out and he asked fiser for his real opinion and Fisher admitted that the King was not the Supreme head of the Church of England the pope was in the process at the time time of trying to make Fischer a cardinal as he believed it would save his life and Henry was outraged at this he said that if the Cardinal's hat arrived he would make sure that John fiser had no head left to wear it on the 17th of June 1535 Bishop John fiser was tried in front of a jury made up of Thomas Cromwell Thomas bin and 10 others Richard Rich testified and this was deemed enough to sentence Fisher to death for treason and he was sentenced to be hang drawn and quartered but the king then commuted this sentence to beheading in a small Act of Mercy following his condemnation he said I think indeed and have always thought and do now lastly affirm that his grace cannot justly claim any such Supremacy over the Church of God I pray God his grace may remember himself in good time and hearken to Good Counsel for the preservation of himself and his realm Fisher was then transported back back to the Tower of London to await his death sentence inside of London there was a great outcry of support for John fiser people began to draw comparisons between him and John the Baptist John the Baptist was executed by King Herod for challenging the validity of herod's marriage Henry VII even considered that this could have been a real thing and he commuted fish's beheading to be done before the 23rd of June which was John the Baptist's feast day he feared a riot inside the capital on the day of Fisher's execution on the 22nd of June 1535 Fisher was led from the Tower of London to Tower Hill which was a short walk away this was a site where many people were beheaded during the reign of King Henry VII and on the short journey in short walk he prayed the entire time when he came to the stairs of the scaffold he was offered a hand up but he refused Fisher then went up the stairs but as he climbed the sun Shone in his face it was roughly 10:00 and the Executioner was ready to perform his bloody job it was said of that day the Executioner kneeled down to him and the fashion was and asked him forgiveness I forgive thee said he with all my heart and I trust thou shal see me overcome this storm lustily then his gown and tippet were taken from him and he stood in his duet and hose in front of the people whereof here was no such number assembled to see the execution fish was then stripped for his execution and was incredibly emaciated which shocked the crowd and it showed how horrible conditions were that he was kept inside of the tower he stood on the scaffold and said to the crowd Christian people I'm come hi to die for the faith of Christ's Holy Catholic church and I thank God hither to my stomach ha served me well I beseech almighty God of his infinite goodness to save the king in this realm and that it may please him to hold his holy hand over it and send the king a good counsel it was noted that he seemed positive and spoke with courage and he was relieved that his imprisonment would not continue following this he fell to his knees and prayed once more then the Executioner came to Fisher and placed a handkerchief around his eyes Fisher then lifted his hands and heart to heaven and said some more prayers and then he laid his head on the little block the Executioner stood there with his sharp and heavy axe in one swift blow he cut the head of Bishop John Fischer off and it was said his neck bled greatly and there was a huge amount of blood which shocked the crowd but following his death Henry VI e treated his remains awfully his body was stripped and left on the scaffold for hours until the evening it was then taken on Pikes and thrown naked into a rough grave in a nearby churchyard fish's head was then placed on London Bridge and it was said it looked lifelike weeks after but then it was froz into the river temps 2 weeks later to make way for that of Thomas Moore's decapitated head his body was then placed inside the chapel of St Peter advincula at the Tower of London later Bishop John fiser died a man of his conscience and a man of great faith he believed that he was doing the right thing and he supported Catherine of aragan which grossly offended the king and his enemy in Henry VI e who was one who would not hesitate to order his brutal execution history's most famous and notorious king would order fishous brutal execution and because of this he sent a strong message to those of England thanks for watching to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe and once again thank you so much for watching

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