
← The Tudor Chest Podcast16 sept. · 38 min
The Life of Richard Rich, was he the most evil man at the Tudor court, with me, Adam Pennington.
The Life of Richard Rich, was he the most evil man at the Tudor court, with me, Adam Pennington.
Across nearly five centuries, Richard Rich has acquired a reputation as the consummate opportunist: a man who appeared to possess few genuine principles beyond his own advancement, who accumulated immense wealth through the destruction of the monasteries, and who played pivotal roles in sending two of England's most revered martyrs—Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More—to the scaffold. To many historians, Rich epitomises the darker side of Tudor government, where ambition eclipsed conscience and political expediency routinely trumped morality, so, what was his actual story?