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Love this. Perhaps you might slow the pace for the slow readers like myself.

henry 8 was a devil, and wolsey was his enabler

henry 8 is not famous. he is infamous.

wolsey was out for himself. greedy, avaricious, selfish, delusions of grandeur, pompous, duplicitous.

Corona to Flushing - are we talking about Queens, New York? 🤣

I think this story illustrates the story all along. Behind every great anything are the architect and propagandist...and yet, we are still misled by the romantic version ?

What to say? On the face of these episodes I can see you know some Lancastrian history, a smidgen of ‘Yorkist’ material and virtually nothing about Edward IV, Richard III and even less about that fragile vessel known as Henry VII. Edward IV, unlike Henry VI, paid lip service to the Church, as he did anything not remotely of interest to him - Richard had his own complex relationship with the church as he was initially intended for a career in the religious orders, had the older brother Edmund not been murdered at Wakefield (rather than kept as a hostage, a very valuable one) Richard surely would have been no more than a footnote in church documentation. As for Henry of Richmond, likely the son of first cousins (Beaufort), whatever religious training and beliefs his mother instilled in him, whatever grandiose efforts he made to the Church, to the diffuses of his family, their tombs, their charities, were all insignificant when you consider the wholesale destruction wrought by his son and thuggish associates desperate to wring every coin out of abbey and parish church alike. Imagine if grandmother Beaufort had lived to see that transformation in ‘her’ church!

Masterful work Mr Holinshed, just found these episodes and now to binge - all I would have added is a fairer tribute to Roger, far more than a protege of Robert Guiscard. He did for Sicily and the whole region, what the abusive, intolerant, and vengeful bastard William never could or wanted to do in England.

I love the way you explained history. Slowly and you make it easy for us to see your descriptions. Fantastic and easy to understand and remember.

Two of your videos and I understand more about the split between the Church and the King than I’ve gathered in 40 or 50 years of watching British history videos and reading British history. Geesh. Thank you!

What a great series of videos! You really do go into more detail, explaining enough to understand the whole picture, and love your sense of humor!

Superb! First video i've stumbled upon from this channel. Looking forward to watching the rest!

You’re absolutely ridiculous

Do you honestly believe that these people influenced in reading that he was this idiot no, he was the one with the power

It makes my ancestors look like a devil in that first painting 😆 Cardinal Wolsey is my 12th great grandfather

the henry VIII timeline website is amazing ! wish there was one for Henry VII though.

I see no reformation info. Just the standard Catholic narrative . It’s a real mess, all over the road. Glad and happy to be atheist. Wow!

Thank you, Mark, interesting and am impressed

Interesting

This is interesting

The thinking of the founding father's of USA was if the church has no temporal power, then the king doesnt either. The government is separate from religion. They took the Etruscan, Greek and Latin custom. The Hebrews from the Bible were the same. The head of the religion is not a king. Bishop Fisher was the one that legitimized the Tudors. Executing Fisher began the downfall of monarchy.

If you understand Henry viii, you understand the 🇺🇸. Except even in America people fight over church and state.

The confusion of king and religion might go back to the celts. The Latins and Greeks had a separation of government and religion. The celts not so much.

Queen Isabella gave Catherine jewelry and Anne demanded it. So Henry stole Catherine's things. Anne demanded the christening gown that Isabella gave Catherine. Henry also stole Wolseys property. Anne was a theological lightweight. The Boleyns painted themselves into a corner.

Very interesting and enlightening. I grew up in a home that celebrated Guy Fawkes Day. I was never clear, and I’m not certain my parents were either, if we were celebrating the plot being foiled or despite that, celebrating the attempt.

I love your episodes

You present such a fascinating backstory to Henry VIII, most of which I was unaware, but please stick with Talis and Byrd’s music. 😉

What a subtle clue you used in showing Henry VI’s portrait morphing into Henry VIII’s - from weak to weak. They even looked somewhat alike in those paintings.

Great clip!

That is a different version of events we have not heard before!

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Thomas Cromwell saw what she did to his master Wolsey and didn't want to be in her crosshairs given she had the King's ear, so he moved on her when she was in a vulnerable position.

The Catholic church was in a period of great corruption during the 16th century. It's hard to imagine the gross hypocrisy its clergy was involved in. Woolsey was no exception. It's no wonder Luther was becoming so popular at this time.

I can't wait!

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In my humble mind set; Henry was never meant to be King, so he wasn't educated like his older brother and spent most of his early years with his mother and sisters. When his brother married, Henry wanted to same attention that Arthur and Princess Catherine received, which he did not get. His own father declared that should Henry ever sit on the throne he would destroy the House of Tudor. Then Arthur died, Henry's beloved mother with child again died shortly after giving birth with the child also dying. Henry's world was destroyed. He would never live in the White Tower again, for that was where his mother died. He married Catherine not because he loved her, she had been Arthur's wife, but now she would be his. And as time passed he was still a vibrant young man while she was growing older being she was like six or seven years older than he was. Anne Boleyn was smart and feisty unlike most women he knew and after marrying her she did not become the proper wife as his late mother had been, she continued being feisty. And of course she gave him no sons. Jane though was natured like his mother, and she gave him a son. And if she had lived his life in his mind would have been perfect. But she didn't. He married Anne of Cleves, if had bedded her she would have probably given him more sons, strong healthy ones But no she was nothing like his Jane or his mother. He was an old man with the Howard girl, his pride got in the way there. A man his age having such a young pretty girl as his wife. And we know how that worked out. And the last one was a companion nothing more. Yes he broke with Rome, but he was still a Catholic, but he made himself the head of the church there in England. In his mind that was the Pope's fault, Catherine of Aragorn and Charles of Spain. The Pope feared Charles and Charles was not going to allow anyone put aside his Aunt. And after the accidents Henry had during the jousts and probably others no one recorded his entire personality changed. He was a spoilt kid, thrust into a role he was never suppose to have and had way to many yes men around him. The deck was stacked against him from the moment Arthur died.

I've been reading or watching videos or listening to audiobooks on Henry VIII for over 60 years (when I write that down I really feel my age!). What really intrigues me about Anne Boleyn is her relationship to France. There's tidbits here and there with things like Henry VIII saying Anne was "corrupted" from her time in France (does that mean sex or something else entirely?) ,then Anne begging the French Ambassador or Secretary for help, and even that Anne's execution was for treason not an affair. We know Henry was extremely angry at the French towards the end of Anne's reign. Just seems something more is there, not affairs or Jane, something more that we don't know. So many histories about Anne make her out to be a Saint one documentary presenter acted like she might faint just touching Anne's prayer book! I don't think she was 100% innocent. Her personality during her lifetime was a haughty, cruel, egotistical, spiteful person that no-one liked! Not her kinsmen, not even her father not the people at court or Henry's friends or the people of England! What changed? Elizabeth I. Still, her own daughter didn't speak much about her or move her remains to a monument or anything. There just this one sided view and I think that's not enough to tell the whole story and I think her ties to France may've been part of her downfall. Thank you for all the online articles and videos much more informative than seeing another drooling article on "Saint" Anne instead of her background as a person, interesting figure in history but certainly not a Saint.

Thank you, Mark, just seen this - most interesting

Thank you. this is wonderful! The music is as well.

Currently my favorite documentary channel. Excellent analysis of the political shenanigans during the Tudor period.

Interesting theory but I disagree with Wolsey wanting to be Pope. There is no evidence to this, so I'd be intrested in knowling your sources for this.

The image of Henry VIII we share is one of cruelty and tyranny. In the book you mention, I think is the image Henry wanted to be perceived as. No longer the dasing active sportsman, lover, and composer he became the learned theologian and scholar and supreme head and owner of his people's souls as well as their bodies and became ever more paranoid and more cruel. In his mind he received his power directly from God. His divine right to rule, built the foundation for the execution of KIng Charles the 1st over a century later.

Is the full video out?

I love your Thomas Talis intro.

The Reformation destroys souls.

God love Queen Mary I.

Very interesting/great job

please tell me the name and artist of the song in this episode. great song

Henry's reign is a study of what goes around, comes around.

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