Henry VIII — Judgements of him and on

Henry VIII - Judgements of him and on him venue: HK Cultural Centre date: 22 November 2008 time: 3. 00 p. m to 5. 00 p. m. speaker: Louis Ha http: //humanum. arts. cuhk. edu. hk/~lha/Henry/ (id: Henry/pswd: Henry )

ROSES House of York House of Lancaster House of Tudor

Text Mary Rose Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk

King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose (1511 -1545)

The hull of the Mary Rose

The sinking of the Mary Rose in the naval Battle of the Solent, 1545, fought between France and England, in the Solent channel off the south coast of England between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Text Armor of Henry VIII from about 1515

A portrait of Henry by Hans Holbein the Younger made c. 1536

Henry VIII 's Act of Supremacy (1534) … be it enacted, by authority of this present Parliament, that the king, our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England, called Anglicans Ecclesia …

Schmalz. A man for all seasons Sir Thomas More (14781535)

Summer: Alice and Thomas More Playing the Lute in the Evening. Spring: The First Meeting with Erasmus in the London House in 1499. Autumn: King Henry VIII at More’s House in Chelsea Winter: More’s Execution on Tower Hill.

Holbein Hans (the Younger) (1497/8 -1543). Sir Thomas More, 1527

Holbein-Family Portrait of Sir Thomas More

Lockey Rowland (active 1593 -1616 after Hans Holbein the Younger). Sir Thomas More with His Family

Yeames William Frederick (1835 -1918). The Meeting of Sir Thomas More with His Daughter after His Sentence of Death

In 1538, Henry VIII began the Dissolution of the Monasteries. He did it piecemeal. First the small, less powerful houses had their property confiscated and their buildings blighted. They were followed the next year by the large houses.