Everything about The Palace Of Beaulieu totally explained
The
Palace of Beaulieu also known as
New Hall was located in
Essex,
England, north of
Chelmsford.
The estate on which it was built - the manor of
Walhfare in Boreham - was granted to the Canons of
Waltham Abbey in
1062.
Charter S 1036
After various changes of possession it was granted by the Crown to the Earl of Ormond in
1491. By this time it had a house called New Hall.
In
1517 New Hall was sold by
Thomas Boleyn to
Henry VIII of England. The king rebuilt the house in brick at a cost of £17,000, a considerable sum at the time. He gave his new palace the name Beaulieu, though the name change didn't outlast the century.
On July 23
1527 Henry's court arrived at Beaulieu on his summer progress, staying, unusually, for over a month. In the company of the a large number of nobles and their wives, including Anne Boleyn's father
Viscount Rochford, viscount Fitzwalter, the earls of Oxford, Essex and Rutland, the marquess of Exeter and the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, it was here that Henry devised a scheme to allow him to cohabit with the intended successor of
Katherine of Aragon,
Anne Boleyn, by obtaining a
Papal bull to allow him to commit
bigamy. This plan was dropped when
Cardinal Wolsey discovered the plan, though the pope did, in fact, issue a bull to the same effect that December.
In October
1533 the daughter of Queen Katherine of Aragon,
Mary, who had been staying at Beaulieu for some time, was evicted as the palace had recently been granted to Lord Rochford (Anne Boleyn's brother).
Queen
Elizabeth I of England granted the estate in
1573 to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, who seems to have largely rebuilt the north wing. In
1622 it was sold to
George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham for £30,000.
During the
English Civil War,
Oliver Cromwell took possession of the estate for the sum of five shillings in
1640. After reverting to the
2nd Duke of Buckingham at the
Restoration, it was sold to
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albermarle, and the court of
Charles II of England was frequently entertained there. Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, visited in
1669 and a member of his retinue produced a view of the house. A copy of this view was published in
1821.
New Hall in 1669
Benjamin Hoare acquired the property in
1713, but it was in a poor state when purchased in
1737 by John Olmius, later 1st Lord Waltham, who demolished and rebuilt much of the former palace. The north wing was left largely untouched and forms the present house.
The estate was acquired in
1798 by the English nuns of the
Order of the Holy Sepulchre, who opened a
Catholic school there the following year. New Hall School remains a school to this day. The Royal Arms of Henry VIII are in the school chapel.
The Beaulieu name is now remembered in the name of the nearby housing estate, Beaulieu Park. The Palace of Beaulieu shouldn't be confused with Palace House,
Beaulieu, Hampshire.
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