Might that have been the moment when Henry finally turned against Anne? Maybe Henry had been having his doubts for some time about what he had done in order to marry Anne, and to have them seemingly confirmed by the new queen miscarrying on the exact day that the old real? Given the source I sincerely doubt it. The man admitted to spreading any terrible rumor about Boleyn that he heard.
Professor Sir John Dewhurst: scientist, historian. There was nothing known about it during their lifetime but it was a great cause of miscarriages for thousands of years. I believe Annes miscarriage in January was because she heard that Henry was having an affair with Jane. As Jane gave birth on the 12th October of that year she would have been pregnant about 1 or 2 weeks when Anne miscarried.
I beleive this because my son was due on the 6th October and he was conceived on the 13th January, that means Jane would have conceived about the same time and as most not all women tend to go over their due date about 1 or 2 week with their first baby. I often wondered if Anne did have sex with these other men in an attempt to have a healthy son. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Anne had become pregnant shortly after she and Henry had started co-habiting on their return from France in November Also, Eric Ives writes of how there is evidence that Henry VIII ordered a silver cradle, decorated with precious stones and Tudor roses, from Cornelius Hayes, his goldsmith, in April and he would not have spent money on such a cradle if he was not sure that Anne was pregnant.
But what happened to this pregnancy? We just do not know. We have no reports of a stillbirth or miscarriage so perhaps it was a false pregnancy caused by stress and longing. He believes that she miscarried as there is no record of Anne having taken to her chamber, so that rules out a stillbirth. This could simply be more corroborating evidence for the pregnancy. Elton Anne Boleyn, Hester W. Comments freya says:.
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Claims that she was a witch and that she had incestuous relations with her brother George were spreading in the Royal Court — with some even claiming the queen had six fingers on one hand. Anne was then arrested and taken to the Tower of London on 2 May , where she was tried for treason, accused of sexual affairs with male courtiers and of using sorcery to bewitch the king.
Over two thousand spectators attended. What is known is that Boleyn's sister, Mary, one of the king's mistresses, had introduced her to Henry VIII and that the king wrote love letters to Boleyn circa In one of the king's letters, he wrote: "If you I will take you for my only mistress, rejecting from thought and affection all others save yourself, to serve only you.
Your mistress I will not be. Boleyn's response surprised Henry VIII, who is believed to have had several mistresses at that time, reportedly entering into these adulterous relationships because he badly wanted a son, and Catherine of Aragon had not borne a male child. Queen Catherine would not bear a son that survived infancy throughout the duration of their marriage, from to ; the couple's first child to survive infancy, Princess Mary, was born in But Henry was desperate to have Boleyn, so he quickly configured a way to officially abandon his marriage with Catherine.
In his petition for annulment to the pope, he cited an excerpt from the Book of Leviticus stating that a man who takes his brother's wife shall remain childless, and claimed that he and Catherine who was his brother's widow would never have a son who survived infancy because their marriage was a condemnation in the eyes of God. Following a six-year debate, during which time Henry and Boleyn had courted discreetly, Anne discovered that she was pregnant in early Without the blessing of the pope, on January 25, , Henry and Boleyn quickly married in a secret ceremony led by Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury.
The following June, a lavish coronation ceremony was held in honor of the new queen. Anne would conceive twice more, in and , with each delivery producing a stillborn baby. In , Archbishop Cranmer decreed Henry's marriage to Catherine Aragon invalid because she was the king's sister-in-law.
Henry subsequently broke England away from Rome by setting up the Church of England. Paul Fogarty. Have something to tell us about this article?
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