#hans matheson

[pierppasolini]

Half Light (2006) // dir. Craig Rosenberg

[ofallingstar]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)

[isabelleneville]

⚜♛ @thetudorsgifs: THE TUDORS WEEK ♛⚜

Day One - Best Episode: Season Two, Episode Seven - Matters of State

[didanagy]

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (2008)

dir. david blair

[epifaniacintilante]

Tess of The D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

[liquidloz]

Still Crazy (1998)

[pedroam-bang]

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

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[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Half Light 2006

[heatherfield]

Jericho (2016)

[tianmicons]

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Joan Allen as Morgause and Hans Matheson as her son Mordred in The Mists of Avalon (2001). Hans was born in Stornaway, Scotland, and has 30 acting credits from a 1995 episode on the telly, to eight episodes of a 2016 series on the telly.

His other notable credits include Les Miserables (1998), Nero (a 2004 movie on the telly, as the Roman Emperor), ten episodes of The Tudors, Sherlock Holmes (2009) and 300: Rise of an Empire.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

THOMAS CRANMER

THOMAS CRANMER

2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556

Priest who lived under the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and was burned at the stake by Mary I of England

            Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533-1556, who had an influence on the religious practices of England during the Tudor era. In May 1533, Cranmer declared Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void. Cranmer, a protestant, enabled the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and by doing so England split from Rome. Henry wanted out of the marriage and Boleyn was accused of infidelity, Cranmer wrote to the king, expressing doubts that she was guilty. He visited Boleyn in the Tower of London and heard her confession, she pled innocence. Boleyn was beheaded, and Cranmer mourned her death.

            Cranmer helped Henry VIII get divorced from Anne of Cleves, the king’s fourth wife. The king married the young Catherine Howard, who was having an affair with Thomas Culpepper. It was Cranmer who broke the news that Howard was a sinner and unworthy of being queen.

            After Henry VIII died, his young son Edward VI became king; Cranmer moved along with the reformation and was responsible for the issue of the First English Prayer Book. When Edward VI became ill, Cranmer helped prevent Princess Mary of becoming Queen due to her Catholic beliefs, and instead enabled Edward’s cousin protestant Lady Jane Grey to be queen instead.

            When Mary I came to the throne in 1553 she had Cranmer burned at the stake. Cranmer, 66, was just one of the hundreds of heretics that ‘Bloody Mary’ had executed. Mary had him arrested and tried for treason and he was condemned to death. He was imprisoned for two years and during this time he attempted to save his own life by writing a confession, denying his protestant beliefs. Nobody believed him, and on the day of his death, he withdrew the confession. Whilst on the stake, he thrust his right hand into the fire, as this was the hand that signed the confession.

#thomascranmer

[isabelleneville]

⚜♛ @thetudorsgifs: THE TUDORS WEEK ♛⚜

Day Six - Most Underrated Character: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

[didanagy]

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

dir. guy ritchie

[romangoldendreams]

In Rome, cars are prohibited from circulating during the day. They barely sleep. All the wealth is concentrated in a handful of patricians, and at their side, thousands of poor people who suffer. I know that this is not just Rome, but the world, but Rome can change. And as emperor I will change the world. Neither Poppea, nor Sporo, nor even my mother understood it as you do, Acte. As a slave you can see things that they don't see, see the real world, and compare it with that other corrupt one. Your world against my own.

Emperor Nero (65 A. C.)