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The subject of today's Claire Chats video talk is King Francis I of France, "le Roi-Chevalier" (the Knight King) and "Père des Lettres" (Father of Letters), Henry VIII's contemporary.
SIR FRANCIS BRYAN* (d. 1550), poet, translator, soldier, and diplomatist, was the son of Sir Thomas Bryan, and grandson of Sir Thomas Bryan, chief justice of the common pleas from 1471 till his death in 1500. His father was knighted by Henry VII in 1497, was 'knight of the body' at the opening of Henry VIII 's reign, and repeatedly served on ...
S1.E1 ∙ In Cold Blood. Sun, Apr 1, 2007. King Henry VIII, the young and ambitious monarch of England, prepares for war with France but is dissuaded by the diplomatic manipulation of his powerful Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, who proposes that the King sponsor a "Treaty of Universal Peace." The harmony of the King's domestic affairs is ...
Jul 20, 2020 · On this day in history, 20th July 1524, Queen Claude of France, consort of Francis I, died at the age of just twenty-four. She died at Blois and was temporarily laid to rest in the chapel there, but then moved to the royal mausoleum of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis just outside Paris in 1527. Brantôme declared that Claude’s husband ...
In 1514 she accompanied Mary Tudor to France on the marriage of the princess to Louis XII, remained there after the king's death, and became one of the women in waiting to Queen Claude, wife of Francis I. She returned in 1521 or 1522 to England, where she had many admirers and suitors.
Historians can trace the lives of over 200 people of African origin who lived in England during the Tudor period. These individuals did a variety of jobs and lived in different places, from cities ...
Apr 11, 2010 · 6/20/10. $1.99. In the series finale, Henry defeats one final political foe but faces his mortality after the deaths of both his best friend Charles Brandon and King Francis of France, and the ghosts of his former queens appear for a final confrontation. Show all.
