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    The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland...
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    Bigod's Rebellion in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a Catholic uprising against King Henry VIII. He was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and...
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  • Geoffrey Pole (category Prisoners in the Tower of London)
    Wales when Henry VIII of England was establishing the alternative Church of England with himself as leader. He was fourth son of Sir Richard Pole (d. 1505)...
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  • Margaret Cheyne (category Year of birth missing)
    for high treason in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace and Bigod's Rebellion during the reign of Henry VIII of England. According to some reports...
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    adherence to the reformed Church of England. In January 1537, during the uprising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, Catherine and her step-children were...
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    more general resistance to Henry's reforms, most notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace, a large uprising in northern England in October 1536. Some 20,000...
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    Robert Aske (political leader) (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    1537) was an English lawyer who became a leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising against the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 in 1536. He was executed...
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    Hexham, who made the further mistake of becoming involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace, were executed. The first round of suppressions initially aroused considerable...
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    by the emergence of a Privy Council, a body of nobles and office-holders that first came together to suppress the Pilgrimage of Grace. The King confirmed...
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    religious reforms, and one of their demands was that Mary be made legitimate. The rebellion, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, was ruthlessly suppressed...
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    Percy, took an active part in the management of his estates. They were both leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Both were arrested. Sir Thomas was attainted...
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  • Bilbo Baggins (category The Lord of the Rings characters)
    adventurous journeying. Bilbo's quest has been interpreted as a pilgrimage of grace, in which he grows in wisdom and virtue, and as a psychological journey...
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    and bank by dumping of material excavated during the construction of the town docks. During the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) control of Hull was briefly taken...
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  • The Tudors (category Cultural depictions of Edward VI of England)
    Seymour and Anne of Cleves, the birth of his son Prince Edward, his ruthless suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, the downfall of Thomas Cromwell,...
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    PLAQUES: Robert Aske, leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace against King Henry VIII". York Press. Retrieved 12 July 2020. The golden age of Islam by Maurice Lombard...
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    Pilgrimages frequently involve a journeyor search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance...
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  • attendants, the purpose of which was to accept the formal surrender from those who had rebelled during the Pilgrimage of Grace). Most of the novel is set in...
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  • This is a list of prominent people executed by the state during the reign of the Tudors. The list is not exhaustive....
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  • Robert Constable (category Recipients of English royal pardons)
    known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in the north of England, Constable was one of the insurgent leaders, but towards the close of the year, he...
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  • Henry VIII (TV serial) (category Cultural depictions of Edward VI of England)
    of Henry's life, sees Winstone act opposite Emilia Fox, as his docile third wife Jane Seymour, Sean Bean as Robert Aske, leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace...
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  • Ralph Bulmer (soldier) (category English people of the Rough Wooing)
    Sir John Bulmer, and his family were attainted of treason for their part in the Pilgrimage of Grace in June 1537. According to the inventory made by...
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  • the archbishop was compelled to take the oath of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Initially perhaps in favour of the movement, his opinion may have changed; for...
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  • This is a timeline of the Protestant Reformation in England. The list is not complete and you are welcome to expand it. Timeline of the English Reformation...
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  • It was led by Sir Francis Bigod, of Settrington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Following the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536, the King had made promises...
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    1536, formed an army of several thousands of men with Jaques of Cray during the Pilgrimage of Grace and negotiated with the Duke of Norfolk Edward Fawcett...
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    Tyburn (category History of the City of Westminster)
    ringleaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, including Sir Nicholas Tempest, one of the northern leaders of the Pilgrimage and the King's own Bowbearer of the Forest...
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    Tudor period (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
    serious was the Pilgrimage of Grace. It disrupted the North of England in 1536 protesting the religious reforms of Henry VIII, his dissolution of the monasteries...
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    II of England and his son John of England. Yorkists were tied so much to the old order that Catholic rebellions (such as the Pilgrimage of Grace) and...
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    John Rochester (martyr) (category Carthusian Martyrs of London)
    when on 13 October 1536, the far more serious Pilgrimage of Grace began, mustering an enormous multitude of adherents, perhaps as many as 40,000. This time...
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  • The following is a list of episodes for the CBC/Showtime television series The Tudors. The series formally began 1 April 2007. Individual episodes are...
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