Mid-life crisis

Ok I know we technicallly went past the mid-life point in 1562, but 1566 is the point where he hit his forty. For some reason the year 1565 and 1566 seem to be completely hollow in term of particular event I could talk about. The best I got was that apparently his son Edward was matriculated of trinity college in 1566 (source, page 41-37 in the footnote). George, the elder actually got his degree before his father at age 13 in 1560 (source). I suspect they had the same speedy attribution than his father. 

I looked into the assassination attempt on Elizabeth, but most of them seem to have taken place when he was out in the North (i'd insert a joke about how once he's out of the picture all the assassins seem to rush in, but that's probably not very accurate).

But hey next time we can actually focus in on something very important, him being sent in the eastern marches for the next decade or so!

Cambridge or burst

In yet another 1564 event, event we have the visit of Elizabeth I in Cambridge that resulted in Henry getting his M.A in art. (source). It a bit hard to give any particular worth to that diploma has essentially it was almost "a everyone who showed up with her get a diploma" type of event. As you can see he was one of seventeen noble who got master that day (source) after what was about four day  at the place.

While he was residing at Clare Hall (source) his personal highlight was apparently relaying message between Andrew Perne and the queen, who mainly told him to put his cap on while he did a sermon (source). He also receive a Marzipan and a sugar loaf from the town(source) .

You can read more detail about Elizabeth visit here and here. I am rather amuse that visit apparent had to be stock in massive ammount in booze (but hey college right?)

Though I wonder if there is any connection between that event and Henry sudden interest in being a patron of the art around the same year. Also two decades later, Henry would become the keeper of cambridge.