How Did The Tudors Rule

Tudor England
When did the Tudors rule?
Tudor England is a period from 1485 to 1603.
Who were the Tudors and where did they rule?
The Tudors were a Welsh-English family that ruled England for 118 years.

The Tudor Monarchs

King Henry vii
Henry vii was the first Tudor king. He reigned from 1485 – 1509, for 24 years. He was the great- great-great grandson of Edward III. Henry Tudor became the king after defeating Richard III in 1485 at the battle of Bosworth.

King Henry viii
Henry viii was the 2nd son of Henry vii and Elizabeth of York. He was the second monarch of Tudor’s house. He ruled from 1509 to 1547 Henry married six times. He married Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and then divorced her in 1533; they had one daughter, Mary.
Henry then married Anne Boleyn who was pregnant in 1533; she gave him another daughter, Elizabeth, but was executed for infidelity in May 1536. He married Jane Seymour in the same month, who later died giving birth to Henry 's only son, Edward, in October 1536. Jane was his favourite wife.
In January 1540, Henry arranged a marriage with Anne of Cleves, after viewing a portrait of her by Hans Holbein 's.
He married her but found her ugly and later divorced her. In July 1540 he married Catherine Howard. She was then executed in March 1542 for infidelity. Henry married Catherine Parr in 1543. She was his last wife. She died a year after Henry.

King Edward VI
King Edward VI was the third monarch of Tudor’s House. He became a monarch at 9 years of age after his father died. His uncle Edward Seymour became the Lord Protector. During his reign Edward and his advisers made changes to Church services and a new English Prayer book was introduced.

Queen Mary I
Queen Mary I became the queen in 1553 and ruled England and Ireland until her death in 1553. She was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Edward VI who was the king before her was her half-brother. Before Edward died he tried to remove Mary from the line of succession. When he died Lady Jane Grey was named queen but Mary assembled an army and got rid of Jane, who was beheaded. Mary became the fourth Tudor monarch. During her reign she restored Roman Catholicism and in doing so, killed 280 religious people who rebelled against her. This earned her the nickname of Bloody
Mary.

Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was the fifth and last Tudor monarch. She became queen in 1558 when her sister Mary died. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth did not marry nor have any children.

How did the Tudors come to rule?
Henry VII came to the throne by defeating Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth field. This battle ended the War of the Roses. The War of the Roses were a series of civil wars in England from 1445 - 1485

What were some of the punishments during the Tudor reign?
There were no police during the Tudor times although laws had to be kept. The punishment was harsh.
Some punishments that were used during times were: * Beheading * Hanging * Burning * Being Pressed (crushed) * Being Boiled alive
Some less severe punishments were * Whipping * Branding * The pillory * The stocks * The ducking stool * The Brank * The drunkard’s cloak

Conclusion
The Tudor reign changed our world. Their main effect was the Reformation. They also changed our way of life, the way we think, our Religion, and our legal system.

Bibliography http://www.the-tudors.org.uk/tudor-england.htm http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Tudors.html http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html http://www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/edward_protestantism.htm

Jessica Meyers