Why did Henry VII marry so many women?

• The usual answer was that he wanted a son to be his heir. But actually he had plenty of sons, sadly most of them died
• but one survived, born to his third wife so why did he have another three wives after that?
• Although he had one son, children died very easily in Tudor times, so he really needed a second one to make sure.
• Plus maybe he just fell in love easily and he was extremely spoilt and used to having what ever he wanted. He wouldn't
• let anything stand in his way.

Write a list of the most outstanding buildings in Tudor London.

Whitehall Palace	Somerset House
Greenwich Palace	St. Bartholomew & St. Thomas's Hospitals
Richmond Palace	Middle Temple
Bridewell Palace	Christ's Hospital School
Lambeth Palace	Gray's inn

 

In Tudor times the City was the centre of trade and commerce as well as the overcrowded home of thousands. Westminster housed both the king and parliament while Southwark was devoted to louche pleasures such as bear-baiting, prostitution and the theatre. These three distinct areas were surrounded by countryside. Find out a bit more about the London where both Elizabeth and Shakespeare lived.
	Wenceslaus Hollar's Long View of London 1647 The Guildhall Library, Corporation of London (U.K.)
Identify the places shown in the next pictures of Tudor London
View of London by J.C. Visscher, from Londinum Florentiss[i]ma Britanniae Urbs, 1616 The Guildhall Library, Corporation of London	London Bridge and St Mary Overies in 1616 by Claes Van Visscher The Guildhall Library, Corporation of London
After reading the website below, fill in the gaps in the following text about Tudor London . http://www.britainexpress.com/London/tudor-london.htm
Tudor London can be described as a prosperous, bustling city during the Tudor dynasty. In fact, the population increased from 75,000 inhabitants with Henry VII to 200,000 at the end of the 16th century. The Tudor monarchs had a royal residence in London called Whitehall Palace and another in the countryside,called Hampton court , after Cardinal Wolsey gave it to Henry VIII.These Tudor kings and queens used what are now famous parks , such as Hyde Park or St. James's Park , as Royal Hunting forests. Not many Tudor buildings survive today, mostly because of The Great Fire , which happened in 1666. Besides, , the 13 religious houses in London were __ converted for private use or pulled down for building materials____ after the Dissolution of the monasteries, which was Henry VIII's most decisive step against the power of the church in 1538. First the small, less powerful houses had their property confiscated and their buildings blighted (made unsuitable for use). They were followed the next year by the large houses. Philosophical concepts of the power of the king over church may have played a part in Henry's decision to suppress the monasteries, but so did greed. The monasteries were rich, and a lot of that wealth found its way directly or indirectly to the royal treasury. Some of the monastery buildings were sold to wealthy gentry for use as country estates. Many others became sources of cheap building materials for local inhabitants. One of the results of the Dissolution of the Monasteries is that those who bought the old monastic lands were inclined to support Henry in his break with Rome, purely from self interest. Apart from that, the theatres were banned from the city by the city authorities or guilds because plays wasted workmen's time ( so it wasn't for religious objection to the play's contents ). Then, they were built in the Southwark, where now a reconstruction of the Globe can be visited to learn about Tudor theatre. At that time, London's financial rival was the city of Amsterdam, and to be able to compete with it , an international exchange was created in 1566. (It was founded by the mercer Thomas Gresham in 1566 to enable London to compete for financial power with Amsterdam. This became the Royal Exchange in 1560, and is now housed in a massive Victorian building beside the Bank of England Museum in Mansion House Square.) So, all in all, and because of many other events and facts, we can say that both London and England were powerful.
1.Write a list of the most oustanding buildings in Tudor London. If you need any help, try the next websites. http://www.britannia.com/history/londonhistory/tudlon.html Whitehall Palace Somerset House Greenwich Palace St. Bartholomew & St. Thomas's Hospitals Richmond Palace Middle Temple Bridewell Palace Christ's Hospital School Lambeth Palace Gray's inn
2. Now that you already know which these buildings were, identify them in the map that you will find in the next website. http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/maps/masters/london-large.gif Print it and then write the names of the buildings .
3. Why were these buildings famous ? Write a brief account of the most impostant events which took place in each one of them.

Catherine of Aragon m. 1509 - 1533 Divorced	Anne Boleyn m. 1533 - 1536 Executed	Jane Seymour m. 1536 - 1537 Died
Anne of Cleves m. 1540 Jan. - July Divorced	Kathryn Howard m. 1540 - 1542 Executed	Katherine Parr m. 1543 - 1547 Widowed