Henry Fitzroy marries Mary Howard; Mary Boleyn marries Sir William Stafford
September
7th: Katherine d’Eresby marries Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk;
(?) Affair between Henry VIII and Joanna Dingley
1535
(?) Affair between Henry VIII and Margaret Shelton
June
23rd: Etheldreda Malte is born (?)
1536
January
7th: Catherine of Aragon dies
May
19th: Anne Boleyn is executed; 30th, Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
July
22nd: Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, dies
1537
October
Jane Grey, briefly Queen Jane I, is born
September
Anne Bassett becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Jane
October
12th: Edward VI is born; 24th, Jane Seymour dies in childbirth
1540
Elizabeth Blount dies
January
6th: Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves
July
9th: Marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled;
28th: Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard
1542
February
13th: Catherine Howard is executed
1543
July
12th: Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr;
19th: Mary Boleyn dies
1545
August
24th: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, dies
1547
January
28th: Henry VIII dies; Edward VI ascends to the throne
1548
Catherine Parr marries Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley
August
30th: Mary, daughter of Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour is born
September
7th: Catherine Parr dies
Etheldreda Malte marries John Harrington
1549
March
20th: Thomas Seymour is executed
1550
Thomas Stukeley is the King’s standard bearer in Boulogne
1552
Katherine d’Eresby marries Richard Bertie
1553
July
6th: Edward VI dies; 10th, Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England; 19th: Mary I ascends to the throne
1554
Anne Bassett marries Sir Walter Hungerford
February
12th: Jane Grey is executed
1555
Thomas Stukeley marries Anne Curtis
October–November
Etheldreda Malte dies
1557
July
16th: Anne of Cleves dies
December
Mary Howard, Dowager Duchess of Richmond, dies
1558
(?) Anne Bassett dies
November
17th: Mary I dies
Elizabeth I ascends to the throne
1570
April
Thomas Stukeley retires to Spain
1571–3
Sir John Perrot is made president of Munster, in Ireland
1578
August
4th: Thomas Stukeley is killed at the Battle of Alcazar
1580
September
19th: Katherine d’Eresby dies
1582
John Harrington dies
1584–8
Sir John Perrot is made Lord Deputy of Ireland
1592
September
Sir John Perrot dies in the Tower accused of treason
1596
July
23rd: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, dies
1603
March
24th: Elizabeth I dies
Introduction
The life of Henry VIII (see plate 1) is probably the best defined of any king of England. Plays, films and television series have focused on Henry’s life, particularly in relation to his six wives. Put simply, he loved his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (see plate 4), but divorced her because she failed to give him a son and grew old and unattractive. He married Anne Boleyn (see plate 6) for love and beheaded her when she, too, failed to give him an heir. Jane Seymour (see plate
