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12 de feb. de 2009 · New conditions meant an age of distress and turbulence, and new opportunities meant the rise of strong, vigorous personalities who were left without authoritative guidance to work out their country's salvation. Of such were Henry VII and his council of the “ablest men that were to be found”.
19 de jun. de 2020 · 1509 (4th April) Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson were charged with treason for plotting to take control of the throne when the King died. They were imprisoned in the Tower of London. The new king, Henry VIII, wanted to show the people that his rule would be unlike that of his father and the removal of two hated ministers reinforced that view.
18 de jul. de 2022 · On this day in Tudor history, 18th July 1509, just three months into the reign of King Henry VIII, Edmund Dudley was accused of being a “false traitor” and was convicted of treason. Dudley had been one of King Henry VII’s closest advisors, but, along with his colleague, Richard Empson, was used as a scapegoat by the new king for his late ...
7 de nov. de 2000 · Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII, was a man both personally extraordinary and yet representative of his age. He abandoned the normal cursus honorum of the legal profession to enter the king's service more suddenly than any of his contemporaries; yet he was one of many common lawyers newly influential in the king's councils of the later fifteenth and earlier sixteenth centuries.
9 de may. de 2022 · Realising that his popularity was predicated on the destruction of the detested Edmund Dudley, he sent the order for Edmund’s execution, which was carried out on 17 August 1510. Henry VIII then burned through the money Edmund had collected in a few short years, his reputation for swift justice and majestic display built on the labour and blood of Edmund Dudley.
Edmund Dudley, (c.1462–1510) Dudley was educated at Oxford, and pursued a career as a lawyer. He specialised in the prerogative rights of the king, which qualified him very well for Henry VII’s purposes. He was elected to parliament in 1491–2, and again in 1495 as knight of the shire for Sussex.
EDMUND DUDLEY. BORN: c. 1462 EXECUTED: 17 AUGUST 1510. Edmund Dudley, along with King Henry VII and Richard Empson The Duke of Rutland . Father of John Dudley, grandfather of Robert, Ambrose, Guildford, etc. Was a minister of Henry VII, where he became unpopular and was impeached and executed early in Henry VIII's reign.
