The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Shannon Ashman

Anna Regina; Anne the Queen

Eustace Chapuys

My Premise

In regards to the document:

Chapuys is an unreliable narrator of events, but more so than the other sources we have.

In regards to the events described:

Anne was deposed and executed for political reasons, not moral ones.

The Loss of the Heir

Thomas Cromwell

Jane Seymour

Henricus Rex; Henry the King

Those Executed

Mark Smeaton

Sir Henry Norris

Sir Francis Weston

Sir William Brereton

Lord George Boleyn

Those Released

Sir Richard Page

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Christianity vs. Lutheranism

“I Have Only A Little Neck”

“This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at my coming she said, 'Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain.' I told her it should be no pain, it was so little. And then she said, 'I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck,' and then put her hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy in death.”

-Anthony Kingston