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Marriage

England · Religion / Church of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1533–1683Date range
3Named people
4Places

Chronological records

1533

Thomas Cranmer28 January 1533

Religion / Church of England

Cranmer validates Henry and Annes marriage

Thomas Cranmer23 May 1533

Canterbury · Religion / Church of England

Declares Henry VIIIs marriage to Anne vaild. Declares Henrys marriage to Catherine null & void

Thomas Cranmer23 May 1533

Canterbury · Religion / Church of England

Declares the marriage between Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon null & void

Thomas Cranmer28 May 1533

Religion / Church of England

Cranmer pronounces Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn married

Thomas Cranmer1533

Canterbury · Religion / Church of England

Seeks the divorce from Catherine & to legalize Henry VIIIs marriage to Anne Boleyn. Presides over a tribunal which grants the divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Cranmer presides over a tribunal created by Henry VIII

Rowland Lee1533

London · Religion / Church of England

Marries Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

1540

Thomas Cranmer6 January 1540

Greenwich · Religion / Church of England

Henry VIII & Anne of Cleves are married at the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

1683

Henry Compton28 July 1683

St James · Religion / Church of England

Marries Anne & Prince George of Denmark, at St Jamess Palace, St Annes Day

Names involved

Henry ComptonRowland LeeThomas Cranmer

Provenance

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