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20 June 2010. ( 2010-06-20) The Tudors is a historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century England, created and written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime. The series was a collaboration among American, British, and Canadian producers, and was filmed mostly in Ireland.
The following is a list of episodes for the CBC / Showtime television series The Tudors. The series formally began 1 April 2007. Individual episodes are numbered. On 20 June 2010, the 38th and final episode of the series was aired. All four seasons have been released on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4.
House of Tudor. The House of Tudor ( / ˈtjuːdər / TEW-dər) [ 1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [ 2] They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois. The Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of ...
Nick Dunning (2007–2008) Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. Episode 1.01. Episode 2.10. Father of George, Mary, and Anne Boleyn, and brother-in-law to the Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Boleyn appears initially as the English ambassador to France, who sees his daughters primarily as a means to advance family interests.
William Catesby. 25 August 1485. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons for King Richard III. Executed in Leicester after the Battle of Bosworth Field . Humphrey Stafford. 8 July 1486. Executed for leading the Stafford and Lovell rebellion . Joan Boughton. 28 April 1494.
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain. It followed the Late Gothic Perpendicular style and, gradually, it ...
The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place during the 16th century under the Tudor dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of England. The Anglo-Normans had conquered swathes of Ireland in the late 12th century, bringing it under English rule .