That which doth comfortly me very much when I think of it, and when I think again that you shall depart from me again it makes my heart die to think what fortune I have that I cannot be always in your company.

Jane Rochford was named as their go-between, who contrived meetings in the Queen's lavatory and "other suspect places" and "falsely and traitorously aided and abetted them". Joyce second married Edmund, Lord Howard, a younger. 28. Francis Dereham was tortured on 6th December. Thomas Wriothesley interviewed the Queen's servants. Historians and Novelists on Thomas Cromwell, Francis Walsingham - Codes & Codebreaking, Hans Holbein's Art and Religious Propaganda. During the interview she mentioned the name of Thomas Culpeper. As of after 1484, her married name was Legh. It was probably on 6th and 7th November 1541 that Archbishop Cranmer came with a delegation to see Catherine; she had for many days been aware that something untoward was going on, she knew her ex-lover Francis Dereham was taken; but this was the first confirmation that her pre marital life had come to light – though not yet her meetings during her time as Queen to Thomas Culpepper. Though, Rethe Warnicke points out that “Master Culpeper,” is “quite abrupt” since he was a knight, she suggests maybe it was an attempt to “placate him with politeness,” and points out that phrases such as “at your commandment” were part of the “elaborate contemporary formula of letter-writing.”, It does seem like a very, very risky letter to have written. Catherine Howard’s letter to Thomas Culpepper. (8) Jasper Ridley claims that Catherine met Culpeper in Lady Rochford's room in the middle of the night, while Henry was sleeping off the effects of his usual large supper. And I delivered the same to a little fellow in my lady’s house, as I remember, his name was Rose, an embroiderer, to make it what work he thought best, and not appointing him to make it with Freer’s knots, as he can testify, if be a true man. And as for the bracelet of silkwork, I never gave him none; and if he have any of mine, he took it from me. Between 1537 and 1541 the king granted him, mostly ex-monastic, property in Kent, Essex, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire. He therefore ordered Catherine to be sent to the former Abbey of Syon at Brentford. He also admitted having sexual intercourse with Catherine Howard in 1538 but he vehemently denied committing adultery with the Queen.

As of say 1482, her married name was Holden. In the same month he was made keeper of the armoury for the king's body, and in September 1539 he was appointed to several positions at Penshurst Place, Kent, including that of keeper of the manor. Such was the terrible penalty meted out to those who had dared to be intimate with the Queen of England. Now the whole truth being declared unto Your Majesty, I most humbly beseech you to consider the subtle persuasions of young men and the ignorance and frailness of young women. V, p 357, says Isabel was the elder, but Norfolk, Vol IX, p 610, note c, says Margaret was probably older as her son inherited the title. (Answer Commentary), Catherine Parr and Women's Rights (Answer Commentary), Women, Politics and Henry VIII (Answer Commentary), Historians and Novelists on Thomas Cromwell (Answer Commentary), Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer (Answer Commentary), Martin Luther and Hitler's Anti-Semitism (Answer Commentary), Martin Luther and the Reformation (Answer Commentary), Mary Tudor and Heretics (Answer Commentary), Joan Bocher - Anabaptist (Answer Commentary), Anne Askew – Burnt at the Stake (Answer Commentary), Elizabeth Barton and Henry VIII (Answer Commentary), Execution of Margaret Cheyney (Answer Commentary), Dissolution of the Monasteries (Answer Commentary), Poverty in Tudor England (Answer Commentary), Why did Queen Elizabeth not get married?

She told Dereham that she knew "how women might meddle with a man and yet conceive no child unless she would herself". Dereham was accused of joining the Queen's service with "ill intent", traitorously imagining that he and she might continue their wicked behaviour. It was not long before Catherine had fallen in love with Thomas Culpeper. The King, initially incredulous, became incensed with these revelations. (10), Cranmer had never approved Henry's marriage to Catherine. A contemporary view of the Tudor peerage in 1538/9, Katherine Howard, Countess of Bridgewater, Medieval tournaments illustrated glossary, Henry VII’s hatchet men: Empson and Dudley, Bishop John Fisher’s sermon for Margaret Beaufort funeral, Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell. . As of say 1479, her married name was Culpeper. Given in Hasted, but not in Visitation 1619. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer thought this confession would please Henry VIII as he could now see his marriage to Catherine was invalid and he would be free to marry again. I never said that if my lady came he should go into the gallery, but he hath said so himself, and so he hath done indeed. As of say 1470, her married name was Constantine. He took with him an army of 5,000 men. The historian David Starkey, has attempted to explain the reasons for the marriage: "Physically repelled by Anne of Cleves, and humiliated by his sexual failure with her, he sought and found consolation from Catherine. (11). This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper. As spring approached in 1541, the royal entourage was at Hampton Court. This was certainly the case in ‘Henry VIII’ (2003) staring Emily Blunt, and a young actor played Culpeper in the film, ‘Henry VIII and His Six Wives’ (1972). As for a small ring with a stone, I never lost none of his, nor he gave me none. For interesting Culpepper topics other than the family tree, and for many additional charts, see http://www.culpepperconnections.com/, Oxen Hoath, West Peckham, co. Kent, England, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Gargrave&oldid=433107369, Farlingham Castle, Farlingham, co. Norfolk, England, Thetford Abbey, Thetford, co. Norfolk, England, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545384394, Epworth, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, England, Arundel Castle, Arundel, co. Sussex, England, St. George's Abbey, Venice, Veneto, Italy, Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, co. Surrey, England, http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/howard/default.htm. Both heads were set up on pikes above London Bridge. Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, sentenced them to be drawn on hurdles to Tyburn "and there hanged, cut down alive, disembowelled, and, they still living, their bowels burnt; the bodies then to be beheaded and quartered". He arrived back at Hampton Court on 29th October. She had previously given evidence against her husband, George Boleyn, and sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn. Dereham continued to plead his innocence but both men were found guilty. She quoted her as saying: "Will this never end?" I do answer, that there was communication in the house that we two should marry together; and some of his enemies had envy there at, wherefore, he desired me to give him leave to call me wife, and that I would call him husband. While "maintaining an appearance of chastity and honesty", she had led the King on to fall in love with her "by word and gesture", he believing her to be "pure", and had "arrogantly contracted and coupled herself in marriage" in spite of being a harlot before and an adultress after. One letter survives from Catherine to Thomas Culpepper. It was showed me that you was sick, the which thing troubled me very much till such time that I hear from you praying you to send me word how that you do, for I never longed so much for a thing as I do to see you and to speak with you, the which I trust shall be shortly now. Nor I never did steal the keys my self, nor desired any person to steal them, to that intent and purpose to let in Dereham, but for many other causes the doors have been opened, sometime over night, and sometime early in the morning, as well at the request of me, as of other. So near the beginning of my speech I said “ As Henry the Eighth said to all his wives. He publicly acknowledged her as queen on August 8. And truth it is, that I durst not wear the said French fennel, until I had desired my lady Breerton to say that she gave it to me. But with Catherine, it seems, it was different. And I said I was content.

Unable to get much sense out of the Queen he returned the following day. (6) The Court lingered in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire for most of July. A separate indictment was brought against Culpeper, who was charged with having had criminal intercourse with the Queen on 29 August 1541 at Pontefract, and at other times, before and after that date.

(17), Thomas Culpeper appeared before the Privy Council to give evidence in his defence. (21). He agreed for Culpeper but stated that Dereham "deserved no mercy". Cranmer told her that if she made a full confession the King would probably show mercy. As of say 1470, her married name was Barham. Henry also suggested that she was such a "wicked woman" that she "should have torture in her death". I’ve no idea who you think you’re referring to but it was most certainly not Catherine Howard, 5th wife of King HenryVIII. Soon it was rumoured, they would marry. Attree R.E./F.S.A. Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn? And sometime Dereham hath come in early in the morning, and ordered him very lewdly, but never at my request, nor consent. He told him a story that came from his sister, Mary Hall, who had worked as a maid at Chesworth House. [Accessed 14 February 1998]. And yet he admitted to his interrogators that “he intended and meant to do ill with the Queen and that likewise the Queen so minded with him.”. (3), Francis Dereham, a former boyfriend, discovered about Catherine's relationship with Thomas Culpeper.