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The Tudors · S3 · E2

The Northern Uprising

  • TV-MA
  • Apr 12, 2009
  • 47 min
  • 8.2

The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as "The Pilgrimage of Grace." Immobilized by an old jousting injury, Henry sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising and focuses his attention on the Lady Ursula Misseldon.

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The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as "The Pilgrimage of Grace." Immobilized by an old jousting injury, Henry sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising and focuses his attention on the Lady Ursula Misseldon.

Season 3

8 episodes
  1. 1Civil Unrest

    48 minApr 5, 20096.6

    King Henry marries for the third time, taking as his queen the demure noblewoman Jane Seymour. A growing number of his subjects protest the king's decision to abandon the Catholic Church.

  2. 2The Northern Uprising

    47 minApr 12, 20098.2Now viewing

    The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as "The Pilgrimage of Grace." Immobilized by an old jousting injury, Henry sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising and focuses his attention on the Lady Ursula Misseldon.

  3. 3Dissention and Punishment

    49 minApr 19, 20097.0

    Henry reconciles with his estranged daughters Mary and Elizabeth in time for the Christmas holidays, but betrays and brutally suppresses the rebellion against him after making conciliatory promises to the uprising's leaders.

  4. 4The Death of a Queen

    49 minApr 26, 20097.9

    The leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising are put to death, but Brandon is disturbed by the cruelty and mercilessness of the suppression; Henry celebrates the birth of a son but his joy is short-lived as Queen Jane dies within days.

  5. 5Problems in the Reformation

    51 minMay 3, 20096.7

    Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.

  6. 6Search for a New Queen

    54 minMay 10, 20096.5

    Matchmaking begins in earnest as Cromwell schemes to secure the Reformation by marrying Henry to a Protestant wife - but the king's marital reputation precedes him; the condition of Henry's wounded leg turns life-threatening.

  7. 7Protestant Anne of Cleves

    52 minMay 17, 20098.2

    War looms with France and Spain aligning against England with backing from Rome, so Henry agrees to a politically fortuitous marriage with Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone), a plain and unsophisticated German aristocrat he has never met.

  8. 8The Undoing of Cromwell

    52 minMay 24, 20097.1

    Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne of Cleves, and beds a new mistress, 17-year-old Katherine Howard; Princess Mary falls in love with Duke Philip of Bavaria; Cromwell's fall from favor is sudden and dramatic.

Guest stars

Sarah BolgerMary Tudor
Max BrownEdward Seymour
Charlotte SaltLady Ursula Misseldon
Mark HildrethCardinal Reginald Pole
Rod HallettRichard Rich
Joanne KingLady Rochford
Colm WilkinsonLord Darcey
David WilmotSir Ralph Ellerker
Kevin DoyleJohn Constable
Gavin O'ConnorShrewsbury
Donna DentWife of Aske
Patrick GibsonSon of Aske
Ciara FarrellDaughter of Aske
Phil KingstonCromwell's Servant
Liam McMahonCromwell's Servant
Declan ConlonMendoza