Anne Boleyn Research Paper

Mary Queen of Scots was executed on the 8th February 1587 after she was implicated in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth of England did not give her explicit consent to the execution of Mary, however, Elizabeth did sign the death warrant. The execution of a sister monarch at the hands of Elizabeth I was a significant event because it had consequences that affected not only England but mainland Europe as well.

Desiring marriage to his mistress Anne Boleyn, and a subsequent male heir to the throne, King Henry VIII of England stood before the pope with a plea. He wanted to divorce his then wife Catherine of Aragon, who he had come to despise for failing to produce a male heir, and instead marry Anne. However, this request was met with adamant refusal by the pope, who deemed the divorce unholy as it was against the Catholic faith. Upon hearing that his request was denied, Henry became livid and, in with the Act of Supremacy, ordained himself the head of the Anglican Church. He then proceeded to divorce Catherine and take Anne as his new bride. But Henry’s actions against the Catholic Church did not stop there.

Anne Dudley was born on March 20, 1612. She grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time. She was tutored in history, some languages, and literature as well. At the age of 16, she married Simon Bradstreet. On June 14, 1630, Anne finally felt American soil for the first time in her life. The Bradstreet family had moved to what is now called, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anne had her first child in 1632, his name was Samuel, and he was born in Newe Towne, which that’s what it was called back then.

The Pope is outraged by Henry’s move to break with the Catholic church and he is excommunicated for breaking with Papal authority. King Henry and Queen Anne produce a daughter shortly after their secret marriage. Their daughter Elizabeth would be their only surviving child. Once again, there was an issue with the failure to produce a male heir. He soon grew tired of Anne. In 1536, she was accused of adultery and executed. In 1537, Henry took a third wife, Jane Seymour. With Jane, Henry finally produces a male heir, Arthur. Unfortunately, Jane dies shortly after the baby’s birth due to complications with the birth.

Her life story. Anne was thought by some of her family members to be the illegitimate the daughter of irish lawyer (her dad) William Cormac. Later on William separated with Anne’s mom and had custody of Anne. At the age of 13 Anne mom died of typhoid fever. Later her father wanted her to marry to some local man, She said no. Later on she married a sailor in 1718. Together they both travel to places like, New Province

Anne Bradstreet wasn’t always her name, It was Anne Dudley. Daughter of Thomas Dudley a former nonconformist of Queen Elizabeth and Dorothy Yorke. She became a Bradstreet when her and her father met Simon Bradstreet. Also like her father a very high in class man. She ended up marrying Simon in 1630 and they had 8 children. She met him in in Northampton, where many people were Puritan.

In Anne’s adolescent years, she reached the minimum age of “Fille D’Honneur” and moved into the court of Archduchess Margaret Fraser in France where her love of fashion was sparked. After serving on the Archduchess’ court, Anne went on to be in the court of Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII and wife of King Louis XII. Because of Anne’s high profile position, she had to keep with the latest French fashion trends such as the French hood and dress styles. When Mary Tudor returned to England, Anne decided to stay in France for the next six to seven years and continued her education in the ways of the French court. The young Anne grew into a delightfully charming young lady, blessed with all the social graces a courtier at that time could possibly hope for. During that time King Henry came to France to meet the French King, Francis I, and it was here that King Henry most likely first met Anne.

Being raised Catholic, many English Catholics considered her to be the rightful English monarch. She was involved in several plots to kill Elizabeth, so she was imprisoned in 1567. Despite her attempts to remove Elizabeth from the throne, she was executed in 1587 after being in prison for almost twenty years.

While pursuing Jane Seymour Henry began to become infuriated by Anne, because she was not producing a son. Cromwell immediately devised a conspiracy against Anne Boleyn which would ultimately allow Henry VIII to not only divorce his new wife, but to have her killed. Anne Boleyn was beheaded on the charges of Treason, Adultery, Incest, and plotting to kill the king. King Henry moved on to marry Jane Seymour, who gave him a son, but she died during childbirth. King Henry pronounced her his true love and that in when he died he should be buried beside her.

on January 29 1536, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s wife had a miscarriage at Hampton Court Palace and four months later was sentenced to death on the charge of unfaithfulness. the day before, the king became engaged to Jane Seymour. she had come to court in 1530 and served her two predecessors as lady-inwaiting. she died in October 1537 while giving birth to the heir of the throne. she was the only wife of the king that was buried together with Henry at Windsor castle.

(Ridgeway) The execution of Anne Boleyn was also very similar to what happened in real history. On May 19th 1536 Anne Boleyn was executed after her execution was put on delay, she made her way to the scaffold and gave a dignified speech. She didn’t admit to being guilty but didn’t fight to be proven innocent; Anne was buried in an unmarked grave. During Queen Victoria’s era the area was renovated and her gave was found.

One of the reasons it can be said that Anne Boleyn was charged with adultery was the miscarriage she suffered in January 1536 where it was said the baby was a male child and around three and a half months old (Bernard, 2010 p131). The fact that the baby was seen to be a boy in the court rumours though there was no way to tell in the Tudor period when the miscarriage was that early, had a devastating effect on Henry VIII as it was said he claimed ‘I see that God will not give me male children’ (Queens of England Podcast, 2017) which shows how he had in a way almost given up on Anne giving him a male heir to succeed his dynasty. If he claimed she committed adultery it was a way for him to get rid of her so he could move on to the next object

It has never been proved the charges for which Anne was killed; all the papers of the trial disappeared. There are still some love letters between the Queen and the King in the Vatican library. English people never supported Anne Boleyn.

Anne knew she had to produce a son but had two miscarriages shortly after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's enemies in the court began to plot against her, using the fact that the King still did not have a male heir to the thrown and the fact that the King had turned his attentions to Jane Seymour, one of Anne's ladies in waiting. Anne and her brother, George, as well as many other people were brought up on charges of treason and adultery (on Anne's part). They were sentenced to death. Shortly after Anne's death the marriage was dissolved and declared invalid. The curious question here was how could Anne of committed adultery if she had never been married to the King?

In 1536, Anne Boleyn was charged with adultery. Thomas Wyatt, along with four others accused of being romantically linked to the queen, were imprisoned. It was widely believed that Wyatt was indeed her lover. Another lyricist, Mark Smeaton, was among the accused in the same year so this suggests “that the queen had a circle of lyrists close enough to her to make a king claim that her intimacy with these men was sexual” (Burrows). However, Wyatt was released shortly after while the other accused lovers along with the queen were executed.