May 4 - A pitiful and strange spectacle

MUCH BETTER TO SEE THIS ONE ON YOUTUBE
https://youtu.be/jNI9os9dvjs

 

On this day in Tudor history, 4th May 1535, in the reign of King Henry VIII, three Carthusian monks, a Bridgettine monk and a parish priest were executed at Tyburn.

 

They were executed for refusing to accept the King as the Supreme Head of the Church and “for writing and giving counsel against the King”, and had to suffer a full traitor's death, one after the other.

 

Find out more about them and also London Charterhouse, home to the Carthusian order, in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, founder of the Tudor Society.

 

Also on this day in Tudor history, 4th May 1513, the execution of claimant Edmund de la Pole, 8th Earl of Suffolk. Find out more about him and his brother, Richard, in last year’s video - https://youtu.be/Jqx7fJdKJHg
And in 1536, the imprisoned George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, brother of Queen Anne Boleyn, received a message of comfort from his wife, Jane Boleyn. Find out more about this event in the fall of Anne Boleyn, in my 4th May 1536 video - https://youtu.be/IGMiJS-5yKE 

 

Videos on the Carthusian martyrs:

May 11 -Two Carthusian Monks - https://youtu.be/kFeYN34OA9M

June 19 - More Carthusian monks meet their sad ends - https://youtu.be/kzzUWDkUdY8