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Anne Boleyn Arrested. 2 May 1536. Anne Boleyn was arrested as was her brother George Viscount Rochford. They were charged with conspiracy to murder the king. Accusations of adultery followed and over the following days Francis Weston and William Brereton were arrested, and then convicted on 12 May.
Pilgrimage of Grace, (1536), a rising in the northern counties of England, the only overt immediate discontent shown against the Reformation legislation of King Henry VIII. Part of the resentment was caused by attempts, especially under Henry’s minister Thomas Cromwell, to increase government.
The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and north Lancashire, under the leadership of Robert Aske.
In response, the Reformation Parliament (1529–1536) passed laws abolishing papal authority in England and declared Henry to be head of the Church of England. Final authority in doctrinal disputes now rested with the monarch.
Jun 16, 2019 · The Pilgrimage of Grace (1536–1537) was an uprising of tens of thousands of people, clergy and conservatives, against King Henry VIII. They sought the reduction of taxes, the re-establishment of the Catholic church and the pope as the religious leader in England, and the replacement of Henry's main advisors.
May 11, 2020 · The Pilgrimage of Grace is the collective name for a series of rebellions in northern England, first in Lincolnshire and then in Yorkshire and elsewhere between October and December 1536 CE.
On a fateful day in January 1536, the charismatic and athletic King of England was violently unhorsed while competing in his favourite sport. In a matter of seconds, the trajectory of an entire kingdom—perhaps even the course of Western civilization—was altered.
