#thomas cranmer

[cloudflycat]

the Reformation Trio

Thomas Cromwell & Thomas Cranmer & Anne Boleyn

(Yeah since they all share the same belief of course they're besties...) (not really)

commission art

not drawn by me.

[elizabethboleyn]

♚ @dailytudors: TUDOR WEEK 2025 ♚

day five | most watched Tudor movie, tv show or documentary

The Tudors (2007 - 2010), created by Michael Hirst Epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.

1/2: THE TUDORS

[gustavedebeaumont]

archbishop thomas cranmer moodboard because i’m obsessed with that hoe

[cinemaocd]

The fact that Thomas Cranmer outlived Stephen Gardiner by six months is sending me.

Dude had a not-so-secret, secret wife! You had two years, Stephen, you had Lady Jane Gray in your house...you could have gotten her to say anything about Cranmer to save herself. Surely, everyone said, he won't escape the flames and you got to work on him. But you got sick and died before his heresy trial even started. (Can't help but think of Cromwell getting sick right after More was executed.)

Also: The fact that Henry signed the BIll of Attainder but then went to Cranmer in secret and gave him his ring!

Ghosts of More, Anne Boleyn, and Cromwell hanging out in the same cell as Cranmer is saved from the ax: What does she have that we don't have???BITCH!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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The Bishops’ Book, ‘'The Institution & Anatomy of a Christian Man (1537-1615)", was compiled by a committee of English bishops and clergy.

It expounded the Creed, Sacraments, Decalogue, Lord's Prayer, and Hail Mary. It dealt with various questions disputed between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. 

Thomas Cranmer headed the committee that authored the Bishop's Book.

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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.

He is honoured as a martyr in the Church of England.

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Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled.

His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority.

He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for which he was excommunicated by the pope.

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[paintingsandhistory]

Thomas Cranmer

Artist: Gerlach Flicke (German, 1495–1558)

Date: 1545

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a martyr in the Church of England.

Cranmer helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of royal supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm and protector of his people from the abuses of Rome. During Cranmer's tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, he established the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the reformed Church of England. Under Henry's rule, Cranmer did not make many radical changes in the Church due to power struggles between religious conservatives and reformers. He published the first officially authorized vernacular service, the Exhortation and Litany.

When Edward, who was devout and had been raised in the tenets of a reformed Church, came to the throne, Cranmer was able to promote faster changes. He wrote and compiled the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, a complete liturgy for the English Church, turning to the language of the people. With the assistance of several Continental reformers to whom he gave refuge, he changed doctrine or discipline in areas such as the Eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of images in places of worship, and the veneration of saints. Cranmer promulgated the new doctrines through the prayer book, the Homilies and other publications.

After the accession of the Catholic Mary I, Cranmer was put on trial for treason and heresy. Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from state and Church authorities, he made several recantations and reconciled himself with the Catholic Church. While this would have customarily absolved him from the heresy charge, Mary wanted him executed on the treason charge, and he was burned at the stake on 21 March 1556; on the day of his execution, he publicly withdrew his recantations, to die a heretic to Catholics and a martyr for the principles of the English Reformation. Cranmer's death was immortalized in Foxe's Book of Martyrs and his legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

[elizabethan-memes]

Cranmer bitterly hated the Observant Franciscans, and he was not merely a passive conniver at their destruction by Henry VIII. He played a major part in the horrible death of Friar John Forest, who was roasted alive in chains in 1538, and he personally hounded Friar Hugh Payne into a gaol where he died of illness in 1539; Cranmer recorded Payne’s death with what can only be termed righteous relish.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation

[historyartthings]

having a scene discussing how 'any of them' could be burned and then showing a shot of cranmer like this:

is nasty work. Of course he’s the one leaning into the fire