Dr. Joanne Paul

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Not Just the Tudors · Henry VIII's Reign of Terror · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

radical nature of this um is hard to overstate because it's happening in the midst of the Reformation, so there's schism all over the church already, though Henry is very, very clear he's not a Lutheran either.

it's happening at a time of European conflict.

But personally for Henry and Catherine, this appears to be the answer at last.

But closer to home, this seems to be the finally the holy grail of the answer for what to do about this annulment.

Yeah, and there are all sorts of chipping away of clerical powers, clerical immunities, clerical subsidies.

This is all part of a sort of package that is going to reduce the power of the clergy and therefore the Pope in England.

And this again is is part of a pattern I think we see with Henry.

He just rides off and leaves someone behind, uh, very often to die.

In the case of Catherine, it's an abandonment.

But he seems to have this ability and it's it's a really troubling ability to just that person is gone.

The death of Richard Roos is is, as you say, it's it's a very gruesome and tragic tale.

Richard Roos was a cook in the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who was an opponent of Henry VIII.

He had acted as a counselor for Catherine of Argan and was very against a lot of these policies.

But he was also a very well-known preacher.

and so was protected at this point in some sense.

And they are served pottage, a sort of porridge, by Richard Roos, and some is given out to the poor after the meal.

Uh Fisher himself has none, but several members of his household do.

And everyone who has this pottage f instantly falls ill and two people die.

And it especially shouldn't be that important because Richard Roos himself says it's a prank.

Someone had given him some white powder that was a laxative, a purgative, and he thought it would be funny if he put it in the porridge.

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