Today in 1536 Henry married his third wife, Jane Seymour, in a ceremony in the Queen’s Closet in York Place officiated by Archbishop Cranmer – you can only imagine how Cranmer must have felt doing this just a few weeks after the fall of his previous friend and ally Anne Boleyn. He was betrothed to Jane the very day after Anne Boleyn was executed, and then married her ten days later.
It had only been a few weeks since Anne had been Queen, and workers had to work hard to replace Anne’s initials and emblems with Jane’s own Phoenix badge. In some cases, the workers didn’t quite finish the job, and you can still see A’s beneath the J’s in some places at Hampton Court.
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. Remember you can dive deeper into life in 16th century England through the Renaissance English History Podcast at englandcast.com.
Suggested links:
Episode 105: Historian Alison Weir on Jane Seymour
Autumn 2017 Tudor Summit: Janet Wertman on the Seymours
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.