Anne Boleyn Victorious - A Collaborative Timeline

1548 - Part 2
1548: A fire breaks out in Ludlow just before the royal couple arrive, causing them to be forced to relocate. The dowager queen, Anne, offers her new daughter in law to stay with her. Elisabeth is quickly friends with Anne as they chat day and night in French much to the amusement of King Henry.
 
1549
1549: Margaret of France, Queen of Portugal, sent a series of letters throughout the last months of 1548 and the early month of 1549 hoping to curb the violence that was beginning to define Portugal. She wrote especially enthusiastic letters to her brother, King Francis II of France. Elizabeth of England had brought with her servants who followed the Protestant and Lemuelite (George Lyon’s followers) faiths. Elizabeth herself was a devout Protestant, and her husband had followed her in her faith. The Princess of Portugal herself was pregnant with her first child. She would give birth to a healthy son, Enrique. Many peasants had converted to the Lemuelite faith. John III was very sick, and power had been taken by his son. Margaret, a devout Catholic, was horrified and tried to order the execution of the Protestants and Lemuelites. This fails, and Margaret grows to be hated, while Elizabeth is loved.
 
1550
1550: Margaret dies giving birth to another son named Francis. John begins searching for a new wife and the queen Anne Boleyn offers her daughter. Elizabeth meanwhile negotiates a religious settlement between Catholics, Protestants and Lemuelites.
 
1551
1551: Marie de Guise, wife of Charles de Valois, Duke of Orleans died in childbirth with the couple's 4th child, a son named Charles, who soon followed his mother to the grave. The Duke was devastated and decided, upon the engagement of his eldest son to the Princess Christina of Lorraine, to convert to Protestantism. Juan III of Portugal dies, much to the relief of Princess Anne of England. She is currently unbetrothed. Queen Isabella of Portugal gives birth to a daughter, Ana.
 
Tudor Family Tree 1551
Henry VIII of England (1491-1544) m. Catherine of Aragon (1485-1534) -annulled 1533- m. Anne Boleyn (1501-) m. Mary Howard (1525-) -bigamous, annulled 1542- m. Anne of Kildare (1526-) -bigamous, annulled 1543- r. Elizabeth Blount (1498-1540) r. Jane Seymour (1508-1537)

1a. Stillborn Daughter (1510)

2a. Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511-1511)

3a. Stillborn Son (1513)

4a. Stillborn Son (1514)

5a. Lady Mary Tudor (1516-) -nun- m. George Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire (1504-1536)
1a. Owen Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire (1535-)​
2a. Catherine Boleyn (1536-)​
3a. Elizabeth Boleyn (1537-)​
6a. Stillborn Daughter (1518)

7e. Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond (1519-) m. Mary Howard (1519-1541) m. Kathryn Howard (1523-)
1a. Miscarriage (1536)​
2a. Cecily Tudor (1537-)​
3a. Miscarriage (1541)​
4b. Henry Fitzroy (1546-)​

8b. Henry IX of England (1533-) m. Elisabeth of France (1537-) r. Kathryn Howard (1523-)
1b. Anne Fitzroy (1547-)​

9b. Elizabeth of England (1533-) m. Juan IV of Portugal (1537-)
1a. Enrique, Prince of Portugal (1549-)​
2a. Ana of Portugal (1551-)​

10b. Miscarriage (1534)

11b. Anne of England (1535-)

12f. Jane Fitzroy (1536-) m. Henry Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (1534-)

13b. Stillborn Son (1537)

14b. George, Duke of Pembroke (1537-1543)

15f. Dorothy Fitzroy (1537-) m. Thomas Culpepper (1540-)

16b. Thomas, Duke of Somerset (1538 -) m. Magdalene of Scotland (1538 -)

17c. Lady Matilda Tudor (1542-1543)

18c. Lady Kathryn Tudor (1543-) -possibly George Lyon’s child-
 
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1552
1552: The king sires another bastard with his mistress: Henry Fitzroy. This is a deliberate snub to his half-brother who openly leaves court with his wife. A devastated Elisabeth locks herself in her room and starves herself for days. It takes Katherine Howard herself to return to court alone and make peace with the girl, but tension does not ease between the brothers. Elizabeth of England and Portugal is pregnant again, as is Jane Fitzroy. Meanwhile, Anne of England is married off to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, son of Ferdinand I and Anna Jagiellon.
 
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1552: The king sires another bastard with his mistress: Henry Fitzroy. This is a deliberate snub to his half-brother who openly leaves court with his wife. A devastated Elisabeth locks herself in her room and starves herself for days. It takes Katherine Howard herself to return to court alone and make peace with the girl, but tension does not ease between the brothers. Elizabeth of England and Portugal is pregnant again, as is Jane Fitzroy. Meanwhile, Anne of England is married off to Archduke Charles of Austria, son of Ferdinand I and Anna Jagiellon.
What has done Princess Anne of so terrible for needing to be married off to a third son five years younger than her, who is still more than two years away from the legal age for marrying?
 
What has done Princess Anne of so terrible for needing to be married off to a third son five years younger than her, who is still more than two years away from the legal age for marrying?
Anne Jr's previously been caught with Thomas Seymour. This is to save her reputation here. I can edit it to another son of Ferdinand and Anna
 
1552: The king sires another bastard with his mistress: Henry Fitzroy. This is a deliberate snub to his half-brother who openly leaves court with his wife. A devastated Elisabeth locks herself in her room and starves herself for days. It takes Katherine Howard herself to return to court alone and make peace with the girl, but tension does not ease between the brothers. Elizabeth of England and Portugal is pregnant again, as is Jane Fitzroy. Meanwhile, Anne of England is married off to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, son of Ferdinand I and Anna Jagiellon.
I do not see why Anne could not marry Maximilian, the actual current Emperor, seeing as he is unmarried.
 
1553
1553: In Portugal and France, many peasants are mass converted to the Lemuelite religion. Charles V dies, and Philip, Prince of Asturias is crowned King of Spain with his wife, Queen Jeanne of Navarre. She gives birth to a third son, Carlos. The Duke of Angouleme is removed from the line of succession because of his Protestantism, seeing as King Francis and Queen Isabelle are very Catholic. He flees to Lorraine with his children, dying of a fever not long after. His son is offered the Dukedom if he converts to Catholicism, to which he agrees. Queen Elizabeth of Portugal gives birth to a third child and second daughter, Maria. Jane Fitzroy gives birth to Jane Brandon. Owen Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, marries Anne Grey (b. 1536), meanwhile his sisters Catherine and Elizabeth Boleyn search for appropriate matches. Queen Elizabeth of France, Henry IX’s wife, gives birth to a daughter, Elizabeth. Her relationship with her husband has improved considerably, and she has decided to convert to Protestantism, much to her families horror.
 
1554
1554: Francis passes away and Jeanne of Navarre is pregnant again. Elizabeth of Portugal dies of a miscarriage, while Henry Fitzroy and Katherine Howard repair their relationship and stay away from court. Henry IX, infuriated at his half-brother's behavior (though he secretly admits he would do the same if they switched positions), takes another mistress: Anne Seymour. This strains his relationship with his wife Elisabeth, though she is pregnant again.
 
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1554: Francis passes away and Jeanne of Navarre is pregnant again. Elizabeth of Portugal dies of a miscarriage, while Henry Fitzroy and Katherine Howard repair their relationship and stay away from court. Henry IX, infuriated at his half-brother's behavior (though he secretly admits he would do the same if they switched positions), takes another mistress: Dorothy Seymour, daughter of John and Margery Seymour.
Isn’t Dorothy a bit too old for him?
 
Isn’t Dorothy a bit too old for him?
Well, Henry II of France took Diane de Poitiers as a mistress and she was also old enough to be his mother...I have probably written him to be into older women, but it is not as though Dorothy is needed to provide heirs, so it's not so big a deal
 
Well, Henry II of France took Diane de Poitiers as a mistress and she was also old enough to be his mother...I have probably written him to be into older women, but it is not as though Dorothy is needed to provide heirs, so it's not so big a deal
How about Lady Anne Seymour (b. 1538)?
 
1555
1555: King Juan of Portugal remarries to Catherine of Austria. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter, Beatrice. Elizabeth of France, Queen of England, gives birth to a healthy daughter, Princess Margaret. Anne Seymour, a pious and depressed young woman, whose relationship with the King was forced upon her, attempts to commit suicide by throwing herself out of a window. Instead, she only miscarries the child she did not realize she was carrying, sending herself further into depression and emotional torment. Anne of England, Holy Roman Empress, announces she is pregnant for the first time. Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of Spain gives birth to a daughter named Maria Catalina.
 
1556
1556: Anne Seymour's rival, Katherine Hastings, denounces her to the king and says she miscarried deliberately. The furious king decides to imprison Anne in the tower. Meanwhile, Anne Boleyn is beginning to worry: rumors begin to arise that the old king is not yet truly dead...
 
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