Some historians think that Thomas Cromwell affected a " Tudor Revolution " in government, and it is certain that Parliament became more important during his chancellorship.

Other historians say the " Tudor Revolution " really extended to the end of Elizabeth's reign, when the work was all consolidated.

Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial to contemporary historians for their unflattering portrait of King Richard III, a bias partly due to both authors ' allegiance to the reigning Tudor dynasty that wrested the throne from Richard III in the Wars of the Roses.

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.

Tudor historians asserted that Owen and Catherine had been married, for their lawful marriage was a vital link in the argument for the legitimacy of the Tudor dynasty.

Tudor historians named Elizabeth Lucy ( also known as Elizabeth Wayte ) as the woman Stillington testified he had married to Edward.

Despite historians such as G. R. Elton, who treated the Acts as merely a triumph of Tudor efficiency, modern British, and particularly Welsh historians are more likely to investigate evidence of the damaging effects of the Acts on Welsh identity, culture, and economy.

The execution of the popular Hastings was controversial among contemporaries and has been interpreted differently by historians and other authors: while the traditional account, harking back to authors of the Tudor period including William Shakespeare, considered the conspiracy charge invented and merely a ploy to remove Hastings, who was too formidable an obstacle to Richard's royal ambitions, others have been more open to the possibility of such a conspiracy and that Richard merely reacted to secure his position.

Hypercritica was a kind of prolegomenon to Bolton's most ambitious project, never completed: an updated history of Britain based on archives and other original sources, free of both the cant of medieval historians and the clumsiness of Tudor chroniclers such as Stow.

2012 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Queen Katherine Parr and a series of events is planned at Sudeley Castle to commemorate its most remarkable former resident, including a new exhibition with a film introduced by Sir David Starkey, talks by writers and historians and Tudor Fun Days.

Some historians argue that their flight was forced upon them by the fallout from the Tudor conquest of Ireland, others that it was a strategic mistake that cleared the way for the Plantation of Ulster.

Other cultural historians have countered that, regardless of whether the name " renaissance " is apt, there was undeniably an artistic flowering in England under the Tudor monarchs, culminating in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Other cultural historians have countered that, regardless of whether the name " renaissance " is apt, there was undeniably an artistic flowering in England under the Tudor monarchs, culminating in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Many Romanian historians ( e. g., Vlad Georgescu, Marcel Popa ) think that Thocomerius was a voivode in Wallachia who followed Bărbat ( a voivode around 1278 ); others ( e. g., Tudor Sălăgean ) refer to him as a local potentate whose status cannot be specified.

The term Tudor was hardly used in the 16th century and many phrases of periodization used by modern historians, such as Tudor England and Tudor monarchy which seek to emphasize a distinct period, are misleading compared to what people actually experienced at the time.

New men is a term used by some historians when referring to middle class professionals who held important positions in government in England during the House of Lancaster, House of York and Tudor periods, most notably during the reign of Henry VII ).

Last two to be added before the book went to press were the marriages of Meredith Jane Cooper, daughter of the Grant B. Coopers, to Robert Knox Worrell, and of Mary Alice Ghormley to Willard Pen Tudor.

Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.

Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.

Vander Veer is surrounded by large Queen Anne and Tudor Revival style houses that were built between 1895 and 1915.

Mercantilist policies were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with Robert Walpole being another major proponent.

When rumours arose that Edward and his brother ( the Princes in the Tower ) were dead, Buckingham intervened, proposing instead that Henry Tudor return from exile, take the throne and marry Elizabeth of York, older sister of the Tower Princes.

The Tudor family rose to power in the wake of the Wars of the Roses, which left the House of Lancaster, to which the Tudors were aligned, extinct.

Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owen Tudor () and Katherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the good will of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI.

The six Tudor monarchs were:

Others are dramatic elegies, intended to be performed in the boy-plays which were popular in Tudor London.

Of the seventy English boroughs that Tudor monarchs enfranchised, thirty-one were later disenfranchised.

The main figures in Wales were the two Earls of Pembroke, the Yorkist Earl William Herbert and the Lancastrian Jasper Tudor.

Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his widowed mother's relationship with Owen Tudor, were later given earldoms.

Pies were created from such mixtures of sweet and savoury foods ; in Tudor England, shrid pies ( as they were known then ) were formed from shredded meat, suet and dried fruit.

It has often been said that the Renaissance came late to England, in contrast to Italy and the other states of continental Europe ; the fine arts in England during the Tudor and Stuart eras were dominated by foreign and imported talent — from Hans Holbein the Younger under Henry VIII to Anthony van Dyck under Charles I.

James I and his queen Joan Beaufort ( died 1445 ) were both buried in the priory church, as was Queen Margaret Tudor ( died 1541 ), widow of James IV of Scotland.

Some Avro Tudor airliners were fitted with large freight doors to carry cargo for Air Charter Ltd ( one of ATL's sister companies ) as Supertraders.

Lancastrians under Jasper Tudor were still active in Wales, and there was an ineffective rising in the North.

Although the Beauforts were supposedly barred from succeeding to the crown by the Act of Parliament which made the children of Gaunt and Katherine legitimate after their marriage, their line eventually produced King Henry VII and the Tudor dynasty.

In the aftermath of the battle, they had fled with many adventures with brigands and outlaws into Cheshire and subsequently to Harlech Castle in North Wales, where they joined Lancastrian nobles ( including Henry's half-brother Jasper Tudor and the Duke of Exeter ) who were recruiting armies in Wales and the West Country.

In 1952 the new Queen, Elizabeth II, decided to depart from the practice of using the purely symbolic ' Tudor Crown ' as the symbol of her government, and instead use a representation of the actual crown generally used for British coronations, the St Edward's Crown.

In the 1490s, Perkin Warbeck, a Pretender for the English crown, claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, but he is generally considered to have been an impostor, and was labeled thus by the Tudor regime.

In the last decade of her reign it was clear to all that James VI of Scots, great-grandson of James IV and Margaret Tudor, was the only generally acceptable heir.

Almost 100 years later, in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I of England, it was clear to all that James of Scots, the great-grandson of James IV and Margaret Tudor, was the only generally acceptable heir.

Totley Hall is generally believed to date back to at least 1623, as this date is carved over the Tudor arched doorway on the building's main facade.

The verse so successfully mastered was, however, not very generally used for heroic purposes in Tudor literature.

Lutyens though took the style away from what is generally understood as Tudor Revival creating a further highly personalised style of his own.