Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

* Anne of the Thousand Days depicts Anne as innocent of the charges ; considered historically correct, per the biographies by Eric W. Ives, Retha Warnicke, Joanna Denny, and Tudor historian David Starkey which all state her innocence of adultery, incest, and witchcraft.

The Romanian historian Tudor Sălăgean thinks that by 1325 Basarab had already been in possession of the strategic fortress of Severin as a result of a peace treaty between Hungary and Wallachia in 1324.

Whether commissioned officer, mercenary, or both, Standish apparently came to Holland around 1603 and may, according to historian Tudor Jenks, have seen service during the Siege of Ostend in which Vere's English troops were involved.

A number of carved brick chimneys dating from the Tudor period can be seen around the Inner Court, each with a unique design ; all but three of these were purely ornamental, however, and historian R. Allen Brown describes them as a " regrettable " addition to the castle from an architectural perspective.

Tudor historian John Leland called Neath Abbey " the fairest abbey of all Wales.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

* April 18-Polydore Vergil, Tudor historian ( born c. 1470 )

Fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timişoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieş, and historian Randolph Braham also returned their Steaua României medals as a result of the awards to Tudor and Buzatu.

Professor Tim Murray writes that this Trojan foundation myth was not challenged until Polydore Vergil, historian of the early Tudor dynasty, questioned it in the 16th century.

According to literary historian Tudor Vianu, the relationship between Caragiale and Eminescu partly replicated that between the latter and the Moldavian Ion Creangă.

Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton ( 17 August 1921 – 3 December 1994 ) was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.

In the 19th Century it was described as ' a handsome Tudor edifice of 1840-41, successor to an older mansion, which was the boyish home, though not the birthplace, of the historian and philosopher, David Hume ( 1711-76 ), and his occasional residence after his fame was won.

According to literary historian Tudor Vianu, this aristocratic influence Germanized his views and his public persona, from " the slightly aggressive ego " and the passion for dueling to the wearing of a monocle.

Jack H. Hexter ( May 25, 1910 – December 8, 1996 ) was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.

Nevertheless, with the help of some friends, he did attend some courses at the university, such as the lectures of historian Nicolae Iorga, the philosopher Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, the aesthetician Tudor Vianu, and the philosopher Nae Ionescu.

Nae Caranfil is the son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil.

Albert Frederick Pollard ( 16 December 1869-3 August 1948 ) was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period.

According to Romanian-born historian Radu Ioanid, in 1990-1991 Adevărul and its opponent Dreptatea of the anti-FSN National Peasants ' Party both " joined the anti-Semitic barrage " of the period, a trend he believes was instigated by the publications of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Iosif Constantin Drăgan and Eugen Barbu ( all of them affiliated with România Mare magazine ).

Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd ( 1891-21 May 1975 ) was an academic historian who taught and published widely, specialising in the politics of the Tudor and Stuart periods, Welsh history, and the history of the Industrial Revolution.

Eric William Ives, OBE ( 12 July 1931 – 25 September 2012 ) was a British historian and an expert on the Tudor period.

Tudor was a professional and forward-looking artilleryman: historian Paddy Griffith has described him as an " expert tactician.

The historian of the Tudor period, Geoffrey Elton, has asserted that the " Tudor revolution in government " under King Henry VIII and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell has as its chief ingredient a concept of " national sovereignty ".

After the despatch of Richard, who had gone into battle crowned, Polydore Vergil records that the fallen coronet was retrieved and placed by Lord Stanley on his stepson ’ s head before his cheering troops, thereby emphasing the critical role the Stanleys had played in bringing Henry Tudor to the throne.

Another version of what happened was given by three Tudor sources: The Grand Chronicle of London, Polydore Vergil and Edward Hall.

Perhaps in realisation of the implications of this, Richard then appears to have led an impromptu cavalry charge deep into the enemy ranks in an attempt to end the battle quickly by striking at Henry Tudor himself.

Her desire to moderate the religious persecutions of previous Tudor reigns — the persecution of Catholics under Edward VI, and of Protestants under Mary I — appears to have had a moderating effect on English society.

She also appears in two of Philippa Gregory's Tudor court novels, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance.

Flanked today by two wings in a loose Georgian style — each topped by an Italianate pavilion tower, this Tudor centrepiece of the facade appears not in the least incongruous, merely displaying the accepted appearance of a great English country house, which has evolved over the centuries.

The game of Primero appears to have been one of the earliest card games played in England during the Renaissance and the Tudor dynasty, and certainly it continued to be one the most fashionable games throughout the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I of England, Elizabeth I and James I, due to the frequent mention of it by many writers of that time.

He appears as a character in stories and poems by famous writers, such as Mihai Eminescu, Tudor Arghezi, or Nichita Stănescu.

The Tudor rose badge might be slipped and crowned, that is, shown as a cutting with a stem and leaves beneath a crown ; this badge appears in Nicholas Hilliard's " Pelican Portrait " of Elizabeth I and is now the Royal Floral emblem of England.

Cline is an Irish surname first found in counties Roscommon and Longford, where it appears in the Tudor Fiants of the 16th century.

In all, the Tudor period is seen as a decisive one which set up many important questions which would have to be answered in the next century and during the English Civil War.

Oxfordians, such as Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, believe Shakespeare created such a role for the 13th Earl because it was the easiest way Edward de Vere could have " advertised his loyalty to the Tudor Queen " and remind her of " the historic part borne by the Earls of Oxford in defeating the usurpers and restoring the Lancastrians to power ".

The daily activities, historic clothing, and even temperature changes immerse the visitor in a slice of what Tudor life may have been.

More recent editions have restored the name Tudor Mansion to the mansion, and say the mansion is in Hampshire, England in the year 1926.

Mass for Four Voices, or the Four-Part Mass, which according to Joseph Kerman, was probably the first to be composed, is partly modelled on John Taverner's Mean Mass, a highly regarded early Tudor setting which Byrd would probably have sung as a choirboy.

In response and reaction to this hyperbole, modern historians and biographers have tended to take a more dispassionate view of the Tudor period.

While the Tudor era presents an abundance of material on the women of the nobility — especially royal wives and queens — historians have recovered scant documentation about the average lives of women.

The girls now residing in Tudor house have not continued the boys ' original tradition, other than on reunion days for the Old Rugbeians.

Late Middle English and the transition to Early Modern English takes place from the early 15th century and is taken to have been complete by the beginning of the Tudor period in 1485.

David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor Henry VII, to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard.

Author Michael Occleshaw speculated that a woman named Larissa Tudor might have been Tatiana ; however, all of the Romanovs, including Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, were murdered by the Bolshevik assassination squad.

Author Michael Occleshaw made the claim in his 1995 book The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor that Tatiana might have been rescued and transported to England, where she married a British officer and lived under the name Larissa Tudor.

Some, notably Paul Murray Kendall, regard Buckingham as the likeliest suspect: his execution, after he had rebelled against Richard in October 1483, might signify that he and the king had fallen out because Buckingham had taken it on himself for whatever reason to dispose of Richard's rival claimants ; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of Henry Tudor ( later to become King Henry VII ).

Historians have speculated, on the basis of these contemporary records, that the rumour that the princes had been murdered was deliberately created to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of Henry Tudor and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other likely suspects.

Many of them have developed their character over centuries-a bit of medieval at the back, with Tudor and Georgian add-ons .’

Archaeologists have recently discovered a Tudor garden including a grotto at Carew Manor, believed to have been created by Sir Francis Carew in the 16th century.

Parliament passed a resolution in 1428 forbidding dowager queens to remarry without the king's permission, so the marriage of Catherine and Owen Tudor may not have been legally valid.

Chiwaukee was to have its own business district, golf course and playground, and its homes were to be constructed in the Tudor style.

The painting was so big that the raised floor of the chapel's east end, required by the 1448 Founder's Will, would have to be levelled so as to prevent the baroque artwork obscuring the bottom of the Tudor east window.

Wimsey and Vane have a small wedding in Oxford with no notice to the press, and escape to their new country residence, Talboys, a Tudor farmhouse in North Hertfordshire which Harriet had admired as a child and which Peter had given her as a wedding present.

Others, doctor and author Julian Tudor Hart, have considered Smuts ' formulation of holism as " a soapy term which evades necessary conflict ," which fitted with his belief in excluding the African majority from democracy.