Hvem daterte Mary Boleyn?

Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 19 or 30 July 1543), also known as Lady Mary, was the sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VIII for an unknown period. It has been rumoured that she bore two of the King's children, though Henry did not acknowledge either. Mary was also rumoured to have been a mistress of Henry VIII's rival, King Francis I of France, for some period between 1515 and 1519.

Mary Boleyn was married twice: in 1520 to William Carey, and again, secretly, in 1534, to William Stafford, a soldier from a good family but with few prospects. This secret marriage to a man considered beneath her station angered King Henry VIII and her sister, Queen Anne, and resulted in Mary's banishment from the royal court. She died seven years later, having spent the remainder of her life in obscurity.

Henrik VIII av England (1491–1547) var konge av England og Lord av Irland (fra 1542 konge av Irland) fra 22. april 1509 til sin død. Han er mest kjent for å ha utløst den engelske reformasjon og for sine seks ekteskap, og at han fikk to av sine koner halshogd.

Han ble tronarving etter at hans eldre bror Arthur, prins av Wales døde i 1502.

Henrik VIII ble beryktet på grunn av sine kvinnehistorier. Han kunne visstnok til tider være tyrannisk, men han regnes også som en sterk monark som hadde folkets støtte. Han styrket utenrikspolitikken på bekostning av innenriksaffærer, og sørget for at landet ble en sjømakt. Han skal også ha vært ganske lærd. Han interesserte seg for musikk og spilte selv, og skrev også selv musikk og sangtekster. Den mest kjente av disse er «Pastime with Good Company», også kjent som «The Kynges Ballade». I yngre år var han en dyktig atlet, og drev med dysting, jakt og tennis. Senere ble han svært overvektig, og de siste årene led han av dårlig helse.

Francis I (French: François I^er; Middle French: Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son.

A prodigious patron of the arts, Francis promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa, which Francis had acquired. Francis's reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World. Jacques Cartier and others claimed lands in the Americas for France and paved the way for the expansion of the first French colonial empire.

For his role in the development and promotion of the French language, Francis became known as le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres (the 'Father and Restorer of Letters'). He was also known as François au Grand Nez ('Francis of the Large Nose'), the Grand Colas, and the Roi-Chevalier (the 'Knight-King').

In keeping with his predecessors, Francis continued the Italian Wars. The succession of his great rival Emperor Charles V to the Habsburg Netherlands and the throne of Spain, followed by the election of Charles as Holy Roman Emperor, led to France being geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy. In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, Francis sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. When this was unsuccessful, he formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time.