Minister of state. He supported and assisted Henry VIII in divorcing his wife, breaking from Rome, setting up an Anglican Church, seizing ecclesiastical lands, and expelling the monks, but eventually fell from favor and was executed.
| 1437–1492 | Elizabeth Woodville |
| 1475–1530 | Thomas Wolsey |
| ?–1536 | William Tyndale |
| 1508–1568 | William Turner |
| 1517–1547 | Henry Surrey |
| 1475–1535 | Lambert Simnel |
| 1488–1560 | Mother Shipton |
| 1500–1555 | Nicholas Ridley |
| 1452–1485 | Richard III |
| 1512–1548 | Catherine Parr |
| 1504–1575 | Matthew Parker |
| 1478–1535 | Sir Thomas More |
| 1516–1558 | Mary I, Tudor |
| 1491–1547 | Henry VIII |
| 1490–1546 | Sir Thomas Elyot |
| 1533–1603 | Elizabeth I |
| 1540–1596 | Sir Francis Drake |
| 1489–1556 | Thomas Cranmer |
| 1540–1581 | St. Edmund Campion |
| 1506–1534 | Elizabeth Barton |
