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Tadcaster
Talbot, Sir George (Fourth Earl of Shrewsbury; Lord Steward and Chamberlain of the Exchequer)
Talboys, Elizabeth
see
Blount, Elizabeth
Talboys, Sir Gilbert
Taunton
Taylor, John (chaplain)
tennis
tertian fever
Tewkesbury, Battle of (1471)
Thérouanne
Thomas, Thomas (pardoned prisoner)
Thomas, William (Groom of Henry VIII’s Privy Chamber)
Thomas of Woodstock (son of Edward III)
Thornbury
Thorne, Robert (Bristol merchant)
Throgmorton, Sir George
Tilbury
Titulus Regius
statute (1483)
Torrigiano, Pietro (sculptor)
Tothill Fields, London
Tournai
Tournehem
Tower of London
menagerie
St Peter ad Vincula Church
White Tower
Yeomen of the Guard
imprisonments and executions
: Anne Boleyn Edward de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk
Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick
Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Edward V and Richard, Duke of York (‘Princes in the Tower’)
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
last of Yorkist nobility
Perkin Warbeck
Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley
Suffolk plotters
Warbeck plotters
tuberculosis
Tunstall, Cuthbert (Bishop of Durham and London)
‘Twelve Apostles’ (cannon)
Tyburn
Tyler, William (groom)
Tyrell, Sir James
Ushaw College
Usk
Valencia
Valla, Lorenzo
Valois, Katherine of (widow of Henry V)
van der Gheynst, Johanna (mistress of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor)
Vaughan, Sir Hugh
Venetian Signory
Vergil, Polydore
Vernon, Sir Henry
Vertue, Robert (architect)
Vicary, Thomas (surgeon)
Vienna
Vives, Juan Luis
De institutione feminæ
Wall, Thomas (Lancaster Herald)
Walsingham, Shrine of Our Lady
Wanstead
Warbeck, Perkin (pretender to the throne)
Ward, Thomas
Warham, William (Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor)
coronation of Henry
death
marriage of Henry and Katherine of Aragon
opening of Parliament
Warwick, Earl of
see
Plantagenet, Edward
Waterford
Welles, Richard
West, Nicholas (Bishop of Ely)
Westminster: St Margaret’s Church St Stephen’s Chapel
Westminster Abbey
Henry VII Chapel
Westminster, Palace of:
Henry VIII’s secret apartments
Holbein Gate
Painted Chamber
Parliament Chamber
Queen’s Closet
Westminster Hall
White Hall
Westminster, Treaty of (1511)
Weston, Richard (Groom of Henry VII’s Privy Chamber)
wet nurses
Wigan (imprisoned ex-footman)
Wiggins, Richard (footman)
Wilford, Ralph (shoemaker’s son; pretender to the throne)
Willesden, shrine of Our Lady of
Williams, John (footman)
Willoughby, Sir Anthony
Willoughby, Sir Henry
Wiltshire, Earl of
see
Stafford, Henry
Winchester
Winchester Cathedral
Windsor, Sir Andrew (Keeper of the Great Wardrobe)
Windsor Castle St George’s Chapel
Wingfield, Sir Richard (Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster)
Wissant
Woking
Wolman, Richard (lawyer)
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas
almoner to Henry VIII
annulment of marriage of Henry and Katherine of Aragon
becomes de facto Chief Minister
burial of Prince Henry, first son of Henry VIII
candidacy for pope
chaplain to Henry VII
contracts sweating sickness
creation of Henry Fitzroy as Duke of Richmond
downfall and death
Field of Cloth of Gold meeting
gains favour of Henry VIII
godfather to Henry Brandon and Princess Mary
honours and preferments
illegitimate children
Lord Chancellor
marriage of Mary Tudor to Duke of Suffolk
Mass for dying Henry VII
trial and execution of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
war against French
York Place
Woodstock
Woodville, Catherine (wife of Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke)
Woodville, Elizabeth (wife of Edward IV)
Worcester
Worcester Cathedral
Worley, Henry (goldsmith)
Worsley, William (Dean of St Paul’s)
Wriothesley, Sir Thomas (Garter King of Arms)
Writhe, Sir John (Garter King of Arms)
Wyatt, Henry (master of king’s jewel house)
Wyatt, Thomas, the Elder
Wyatt, Thomas, the Younger
Wyndham, Sir John
York, Cecily of
York, Elizabeth of (mother of Henry VIII)
birth of children
coronation
death
death of Prince Arthur
education
marriage to Henry VII
tomb
York, Margaret of (dowager Duchess of Burgundy)
York Place, London
1. Henry VII, painted
c
.1501. His claim to the throne of England was fragile and he faced a succession of claimants and pretenders throughout his reign. The insecurity of the Tudor dynasty was heightened when he lost his son and heir Arthur and a third son died in infancy. Only Henry was left.
2. Elizabeth of York – Henry VIII’s beloved mother – painted
c.
1502, the year before her death. Years afterwards, he wrote about the wound inflicted upon him by her loss. This portrait was first recorded in the Royal Collection during his reign.
3. Lady Margaret Beaufort praying in the robes of a vowess,
c.
1500. Henry’s pious grandmother acted as regent until his eighteenth birthday and her death, five days after his coronation, severed the last shackle of his sequestered childhood and youth.
4. Prince Arthur, painted
c.
1520. He wears a collar of red and white Tudor roses and a badge bearing the figure of St John the Baptist on his hat. However, some scholars have suggested that the portrait is of a young Henry.
5. Henry as a child. This drawing of a chubby toddler is inscribed ‘
le Roy henry d’angleterre
’ although the style of his ostrich-plumed hat looks nearly four decades later and throws some doubt on the identification of the subject.
6. Bust of a laughing child, possibly Henry VIII,
c.
1498, by Guido Mazzoni. Probably commissioned by Henry VII after Mazzoni failed to win the commission to design and carve the King’s tomb.
7. Prince Henry’s bede roll which promised divine protection from a variety of perils, as well as shortening the agony of Purgatory. Henry gave the prayer roll to one of his servants, William Thomas, some time before 1509. Thomas was one of the two witnesses at Henry’s quiet wedding to Katherine of Aragon at Greenwich on 11 June 1509.
8. Henry VII on his deathbed. This drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, shows the gentleman usher William Fitzwilliam closing the King’s eyes. Ranged around the bed are Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, and one of the King’s chief ministers; members of his household and three doctors holding long-necked bottles for urine – a vital method of evaluating symptoms in sixteenth-century medicine.
9. Katherine of Aragon aged about twenty,
c
.1504 – 5. Eyes cast down, demure Katherine endured frequent periods of illness and abject poverty in the lonely years at Durham House, near Charing Cross, after the death of her young husband Arthur in 1502.
10. Henry aged about twenty-two, painted
c
.1513 – the earliest known portrait of him as King. A Venetian ambassador described him at this time as having ‘a round face so very beautiful that it would become a pretty woman’.
11. Henry VIII, painted
c.
1520 at the peak of his power with everything to look forward to – military glory, prowess in the tiltyard, but where were his lusty Tudor heirs?

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