Thomas Murner
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Thomas Murner, OFM was an Alsatian satirist, poet and translator.
Thomas Murner as chancellor of the Gäuchmatt. Ambrosius Holbein (1519)
The Logic of the Art of the Remembering. Edition 1509. Collections of the Ossolineum in Wrocław, Poland. Exhibition in May 2026
Henry VIII
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Henry VIII was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. At the same time, he was Lord of Ireland until 18 June 1542, after which he was also King of Ireland.
Thomas Murner
…the chapters printed in Latin. But also the chapters counted with a translation into the German language. In the summer of 1523, at the invitation of Henry VIII, he went to the Kingdom of England, where his writings had caught the attention of Thomas More. John Headley credits Murner for making More aware of…
Portrait by Meynnart Wewyck, 1509
The meeting of Francis I and Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520
Henry (left) with Pope Leo X (centre) and Emperor Charles V (right); painting by unknown artist c. 1520