A new discovery has made the double of Henry VIII   – a man who executed two of his married woman and had many   Catholics hang , draw off , and quartered   on religious grounds after he desire to disassociate his first wife , which the church would not allow – somehow even worse .

Tudor historian   Tracy Borman and archivist Sean Cunningham uncovered a imprimatur record book in the National Archives containing phonograph recording of   sixteenth - century law-breaking and punishments . Within the documents , most   fair boring bureaucratic report from the Tudor government , Cunningham recognise orders come to to the death of King Henry VIII ’s second wife , Anne Boleyn . She had been sentence to death for perfidy , adultery , and incest , though   fairly much all historian agree these charges were fake and his material motivation for her execution was because she had n’t given him a male heir .

The fresh discovered warrant book contains specific instructions from Henry for how he wanted Boleyn to be executed , which   Tracy Borman say   reenforce his trope as a   “ pathologic monster ” .

" What it shows is Henry ’s premeditated , bet manner , " Borman toldThe Observer . " He know exactly how and where he need it to happen . ”

The pedagogy show that Henry want to be rid of his “ later queen of England , lately our wife , latterly attainted and convicted of mellow treason ” by executing   “ upon the Green within our Tower of London . ” Though certainly dusty and dark that he was involved in the logistics of his married woman ’s capital punishment , the written document show that he was " move by pity " to spare her from being burn , preferring that she be decapitated instead .   He also specified that her expiry should come from a reverse by a sword , which was   more authentic as a form of execution than an ax , but not commonly used in England at the time , mean a French swordsman was   send for .

You probably wo n’t be surprised that one of English history ’s famous monster ( of which there are hundreds , the English sure do love to move around the world make misery , historically speak ) displayed horrible   deportment , but   you may be a little intrigued to have it away that he was n’t always like this and his conduct change dramatically in   1536 . His tyrannical behavior may have been the result of a gymnastic horse .

In   a joust tournament at Greenwich Palace on January 24 , 1536 , Henry , of age 44 , was in full armour when he wasthrown from his horse . The situation forthwith became worse when his horse , which was also armored , fell on top of him . He remained unconscious for a full two hours , during which those around him consider the wound to be fateful .