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On This Day In History . 5 January 1531 . The Pope wrote to king Henry VIII forbidding him to remarry . . ◼ Pope Clement VII wrote to Henry VIII forbidding him to remarry, & threatening him with excommunication if he took matters into his own hands & disobeyed Rome:- . “At the request of the Queen, forbids Henry to remarry until the decision of the case, & declares that if he does all issue will be illegitimate. Forbids any one in England, of ecclesiastical or secular dignity, universities, parliaments, courts of law, &c., to make any decision in an affair the judgment of which is reserved for the Holy See. . The whole under pain of excommunication. As Henry would not receive a former citation, this is to be affixed to the church gates of Bruges, Tournay, & other towns in the Low Countries, which will be sufficient promulgation. Rome, 5 Jan. 1531.” (LP v.27). . ◼ Henry VIII sought an annulment of his marriage to Katharine of Aragon so that he could marry his new love, Anne Boleyn. He applied for a dispensation to marry again back in August 1527, never dreaming that it would take nearly six years to get the marriage annulled. . ◼ A seemingly simple request for a dispensation turned into “The King’s Great Matter”, & resulted in the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, England breaking with Rome, Henry declaring himself to be “sole protector & supreme head of the English church & clergy”, & the executions of men like Thomas More, John Fisher & the Carthusian monks, who would not swear the oath of supremacy. . ◼ Henry VIII finally married Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony on 25th January 1533, & their marriage was declared valid on 28th May 1533, just days before Anne’s coronation on 1st June. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #D5Jan #Theyear1531 #PopeClementVII #KingHenryVIII #HenryVIII #kingofengland #history #EnglishMonarchy #Britishmonarchy #Historyfacts #Heritage #Reformation #PopeClementVII #AnneBoleyn #Katharineofaragon #Thebritishmonarchy #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay #Instahistory #QueenofEngland (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B69M_OQAw5g/?igshid=14e4teuybhrlp

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On This Day In History 5 January 1827 Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany died aged 63 . The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany born 16 August 1763, was the second son & child of King George III, King of Great Britain & Ireland & Elector of Hanover and Queen Charlotte. ◼ Frederick died of dropsy & apparent cardio-vascular disease at the home of the Duke of Rutland on Arlington Street, London, in 1827. . Legacy; ◼ Fredericton, the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, was named after Prince Frederick. The city was originally named “Frederick’s Town”. ◼ The towering Duke of York Column on Waterloo Place, just off The Mall, London was completed in 1834 as a memorial to Prince Frederick. ◼ The 72nd Regiment of Foot was given the title Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders in 1823 & in 1881, became 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Ross–shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s). ◼ The first British fortification in southern Africa, Fort Frederick, Port Elizabeth, a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, was built in 1799 to prevent French assistance for rebellious Boers in the short-lived republic of Graaff-Reinet. ◼ The Duke of York Bay in Canada was named in his honour, since it was discovered on his birthday, 16 August. . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1827 #PrinceFrederick #DukeofYork #DukeofAlbany #HouseofHanover #Royalty #RoyaltyinArt #Monarchy #History #BritishMonarchy #D5jan #HistoryFacts #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #OnThisDay #Georgians #Georgian #Thebritishmonarchy 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B69NOypgRNa/?igshid=19zxqry4v2phw

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On This Day In History . 15 January 1478 . Richard of Shrewsbury married Anne De Mowbray . ◼ On 15 January 1478, in St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, when he was about 4 years old, Richard married the 5-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, who had inherited the vast Mowbray estates in 1476. . 👑 Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (born 17 August 1473 - died c.1483), was the sixth child & second son of King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville, born in Shrewsbury. Richard & his older brother, who briefly reigned as King Edward V of England, mysteriously disappeared shortly after Richard III usurped the throne of England in 1483. . 👑 Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later Duchess of York & Duchess of Norfolk (10 December 1472 – c. 19 November 1481) was the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. She died at the age of eight. . . . #onthisthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #d5jan #theyear1478 #RichardofShrewsbury #DukeofYork #AnneDeMowbray #houseofYork #HouseofPlantagenet #history #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #HistoryFacts #Heritage # (at Westminster) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQsjFflv4a/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11yfyn90gykzj