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Timeline 1540
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​Henry Incognito at Rochester

1 January 1540
Henry arrived at Rochester, Kent in disguise for a peep at his next wife whose appearance hitherto he had accepted from the Holbein portrait. His prospective bride however was not at all to his liking

​A Wedding Ceremony

6 January 1540
Henry reluctantly proceeded with the marriage ceremony in the queens closet at Greenwich. The king however was unable to consummate the union

​Waltham the Last Surviving Monastery Surrendered

23 March 1540
The dissolution of the monasteries ended where the concept begun (see 1529) with Joseph of Arimathea’s Holy Cross at Waltham, Essex

​Robert Barnes Arrested

​Mach 1540
Evangelist and Cromwell adherent Robert Bares arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London

​Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex

​Thomas Cromwell was granted the Earldom of Essex and the senior court office of lord great chamberlain. The previous earl, Henry Bourchier had died after breaking his neck falling from his horse on 13 March and the previous great chamberlain, John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford died a few days later on 21 March

​Cromwell Arrested

​10 June 1540
Thomas Cromwell was arrested in the council chamber and charged with treason, heresy, felony and corruption. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who had recently returned from a clandestine meeting in France was instrumental in his arrest

​Cromwell Executed

​Cromwell condemned by an act of attainder – a bill of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them, often without a trial

​Cleves Marriage Annulled

​9 July 1540
Thomas Cranmer annulled Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves after accepting that she had entered into a previous contract of marriage and that her marriage to Henry was unconsummated

​Another Marriage and Another Execution

28 July 1540
Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, niece of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk at Oatlands Palace in Surrey. On the same day, Thomas Cromwell was executed on Tower Hill where he ‘suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged and butcherly miser, which very ungodly performed the office’. From Halls Chronicle

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  • Henry VIII A Summary
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  • Mark Holinshed's Articles
  • Quick Facts
  • About
  • VIDEO CHANNEL GUIDE
  • The Man Who was Henry VIII An Introduction Video