![]() ![]() The peoples choice, Mary, was pronounced the rightful sovereign by Parliament. Soon after the hastily arranged coronation of Lady Jane Grey at the Tower of London, the ‘people’ called for the rightful Princess Mary (daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon) to rise. Europe’s tallest building, The Shard, is difficult to miss.ġ554: Lord Guildford Dudley the unlucky young man who married Lady Jane Grey and for a brief period (nine days) became the Queen’s Consort following the death of King Edward VI. It is the oldest church in the City of London. The church of All Hallows by the Tower is right of centre. (Elisabeth was cleared of complicity after interrogation in the Tower of London) Tower Hill, looking west. False charges of conspiracy were trumped up and Seymour’s currency was so low, that he was sentenced to deathġ554: Sir Thomas Wyatt leader of a failed protestant rebellion to replace Queen Mary I with her younger half-sister Elisabeth. Dudley worked behind the scenes for Seymour’s removal and replacement by himself. Whilst Seymour’s policies, mismanagement and character antagonised the public, his downfall was his betrayal by his old friend John Dudley (see 1554 below). ![]() Upon the death of the King, Seymour became Lord Protector to his young nephew King Edward VI. (The Howard family had little regard for the ‘new men’ at Court Cromwell and the Seymours, Edward and Thomas)ġ552: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset the elder brother of Jane Seymour was the leading political figure in the land rising to the position of Lord Admiral under King Henry VIII. ![]() It didn’t help that Surrey added the arms of King Edward the Confessor to his own coat of arms. (On the right is the Tower Hill Memorial to civilian and merchant sailors and fisherman lost at sea with no grave in both world wars)ġ547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey executed for antagonising King Henry VIII on a variety of matters – and for feeding his paranoia that Surrey would usurp the King’s son (Edward VI) upon King Henry’s death. A man who flew high before falling spectacularly out of favour with the King principally for marginalising the King in affairs of state and marrying him off to Anne of Cleves The marked off execution site on Tower Hill (left). (George Boleyn, Queen Catherine Howard and Henry Howard (see 1547) were all cousins and grandchildren of Thomas Howard, the 2nd Duke of Norfolk)ġ540: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex Chief Minister and briefly the Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII. More was canonised in 1935 by Pope Pius XIġ536: George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn caught up in King Henry VIII’s desire to ‘move on’ from Queen Anne Boleyn, George and four others were executed on Tower Hill most probably falsely accused of having carnal relations with the Queen. Executed for refusing to sign the 1533 Act of Succession (recognising Anne Boleyn as the valid Queen) and taking the oath required by the 1535 Act of Supremacy (recognising King Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the English Church). They dared not attack the King, so his leading spiritual advisor acted as the unfortunate ‘proxy’ for their wrath The marked off execution site on Tower Hillġ535: Sir Thomas More, ex-Lord Chancellor after twelve months imprisonment in the Tower of London, More was executed on Tower Hill. The mob were upset with King Richard II’s taxation policies. The mob broke into the Tower of London and sought out Sudbury, who was praying in St John’s Chapel. Here is a list of the most notable executions and something of their story:ġ381: Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury dragged to Tower Hill by the mob during the ‘Peoples Revolt’ and beheaded. At this time, only a few people (with Royal or noble blood) were ‘privileged’ to be executed privately inside the Tower. It’s believed around 125 people were executed, mostly by beheading. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was the execution site for those incarcerated in the Tower in London. Tower Hill is an open area of raised land just north of the Tower of London.
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