Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury thanks to ties with the Boleyn family, Thomas Cranmer rose to power from a relatively minor status. His first task, of course, was to pronounce the invalidity of Henry‘s marriage to Katherine of Aragon and legitimize Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn in one fell swoop—much to the outrage of the Catholic Church.
Sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and lady-in-waiting to Henry’s subsequent wives, Lady Rochford helped arrange romantic trysts between Queen Katherine Howard and Thomas Culpepper.
Thomas Cranmer
(Hans Matheson)
Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury thanks to ties with the Boleyn family, Thomas Cranmer rose to power from a relatively minor status. His first task, of course, was to pronounce the invalidity of Henry‘s marriage to Katherine of Aragon and legitimize Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn in one fell swoop—much to the outrage of the Catholic Church.
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