Henry (39 page)

COUNCIL AND MINISTERS: clerical ministers
47
–
50
; clerk of the hanaper
319
; deny H’s wishes
275
–7; discuss Catherine’s miscarriage
335
; dominated by father’s ministers
317
; Foxe and
see
Foxe, Richard; great councils and
301
–4; H defies
325
; Howard family’s accretion of power and
352
–5,
360
–3; lord chamberlain’s department
78
,
89
,
95
,
98
,
176
,
182
,
195
,
219
,
238
,
273
,
286
; lord steward’s department
238
,
268
,
273
,
281
; make up of
273
–4,
278
,
280
,
318
–19,
320
; Marney and
269
–73,
274
–5,
349
,
360
; ministers, H’s attitude towards
234
–5; negotiates H’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon
277
–80; patronage, involvement in
269
–77,
281
,
306
–14; Wolsey and
367
–70
see also under
individual minister’s name

EDUCATION:
4
; in arms
181
; astronomical and mathematical lore, love of
123
; books, love of
128
,
132
; Erasmus and
see
Erasmus, Desiderius; in family history
127
; in French
179
–80,
220
; handwriting
118
–20; Henry VII and
118
; history, role of
179
; in the company of women
118
–20,
129
; language, sense of English
3
,
7
,
123
–4,
358
–60; Latin
5
,
46
,
121
–2,
123
,
178
,
179
,
181
,
182
–3,
220
,
242
; lute
180
; More and
129
,
130
,
177
,
182
,
175
; mother, learns to read and write from
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–20,
170
; Mountjoy and
175
,
177
,
181
,
182
,
225
,
241
,
242
,
257
,
287
; musical
4
,
180
,
348
–9; physical
181
; Reformation and
181
,
182
; scholars, reverence for
127
–8; Skelton and
16
,
17
,
118
,
120
,
121
–9,
131
,
136
,
166
,
173
,
174
,
178
,
179
,
180
; tutors
16
,
17
,
118
–29; verse composition
123
–4; vocabulary
123
–4; wind instruments
180

FAMILY: Arthur, prince of Wales, relationship with
67
,
169
; Arthur, prince of Wales’s
wedding, role in
144
–5,
146
; death of son, reaction to
345
; family tree
xiv
–
xv
; father, abominates meanness of
4
,
127
; father, contradictory attitude of towards
157
; father, relationship with after death of brother
185
–6,
187
–9; father’s achievements and
38
; father’s favouritism towards Arthur, prince of Wales and
40
; father’s illness and death, effect upon
239
–41,
262
–3; house of Lancaster and
8
–
9
,
16
,
18
,
19
–
21
,
23
–7; house of York and
8
–
9
,
18
,
81
,
156
–7,
305
–6,
308
; mother, identifies with
117
,
118
–19,
120
; mother, love for
18
,
83
,
169
–70; mother, reaction to death of
169
–70,
220
; sister Mary’s wedding, role in
249
; son born
6
,
340

FINANCES: debts
320
; father endows on creation as duke of York
100
,
157
–8; father’s financial gifts to
117
,
138
; gambling and
162
; H’s attitude towards
4
,
127
,
319
–20; land revenues
319
; letters patent and
319

LOVE LIFE: Anne Stafford, rumoured affair with
337
,
338
,
339
; Catherine of Aragon, love for
317
,
327
–8,
331
,
335
,
343
,
344
; fear of incest
129
; marriage to Catherine of Aragon
189
–92,
199
–
200
,
208
,
240
,
253
,
270
,
277
–8,
280
,
281
,
286
,
291
; marriage, negotiations for first
277
–81; marriage, values
127
; repudiates marriage to Catherine of Aragon
191
,
263
; sex life with Catherine of Aragon
334
,
337
; women, attitude towards
129

PERSONALITY: adolescent behaviour
330
; builder, great
214
; charm
330
; chivalry
343
,
353
,
361
; counsel, attitude towards
128
; desire to be good
284
; etiquette and
89
; fame and greatness, appetite for
132
,
301
,
305
; fast learner
89
; feminine influence
66
,
172
–3; gambling and
162
; greatness, capacity for
301
; history and books, turns to for guidance
16
,
127
,
128
,
132
,
206
,
257
,
285
,
302
; learned men and scholars, treatment of
127
–8; love of fortifications and ordnance
315
–16; models on Henry V
4
,
6
,
20
; musical ability
4
,
180
,
348
–9; patriotism
123
; pleasure seeking
367
–8; role models
206
,
215
–16,
218
–20; rule breaker
146
; Thomas More spots capacity for greatness in
301
; tyrant
3
; women, attitude towards
129
; xenophobia
123
; younger and older, differences between
3
,
4
,
6
–
7

PRIVY CHAMBER: early days of
317
–18; function of
1
; groom of the
339
; groom of the stool
1
,
2
,
317
–18; privy purse
320
;
William Compton
see
Compton, William

RELIGION: ‘bede’ or prayer roll
199
–
205
; break with Rome
3
,
128
; burns heretics
3
; dissolution of monasteries
3
; H’s reformation
7
–
8
; jewellery
197
,
278
; mother and
197
–8; piety, conventional
4
,
289
,
292
,
294
; pilgrimages
4
,
7
,
197
–8,
341
–2,
345
; Pope, attitude towards
4
,
7
; royal station and
289
; supreme head of church, makes himself
3
,
128
; William Thomas and
199
,
281
; writings on
7

SPORTSMAN:
4
; birding
329
; bow skills
211
; competes at tournaments
226
–33; hawking
221
; Henry VII’s attitude towards H’s involvement in sport
231
,
232
–3; horsemanship
87
–8,
349
; hunting
329
; jousting
221
–33,
320
–5,
341
,
342
–3; physique and
226
–7,
234
,
289
,
322
; royal studs
87
–8

TITLES: archbishop of Canterbury, father’s possible intention to make H
157
–61; duke of York, created
81
,
82
–
97
,
149
,
157
,
270
; knight of the Bath, created
82
,
85
,
89
–
92
,
127
; knight of the Garter, installation as
110
–11,
156
; knight of the Golden Fleece
210
; lord lieutenant of Ireland
112
–13; lord warden of the Cinque Ports, created
79
,
94
,
112
,
289
; office of the keeper and the chief justice of Galtres Forest, given
166
; prince of Wales, becomes
166
,
172
,
184
–5

WARS OF THE ROSES: attempt to knit up wounds of
4
,
8
–
9
,
16
,
18
,
305
,
307
–12; learns of in childhood
16
–
18
,
127

WRITING:
Assertio Septem
Sacramentorum
7
; letters
169
–70,
179
,
218
–19,
328
,
329
–30; speech to parliament, 1545
124
; verse
123
–4,
358
–9