# Thomas More is executed on 6 July 1535 as a completed capital process under supremacy law

Date: 1535

## The fact

TNA, Britannica, and ODNB print 6 July 1535 as the beheading of [Thomas More](/people/thomas-more), late chancellor, after trial for denying supremacy. Shared judges, jury, and king’s officers.

It is one event.

## Context

A former chancellor killed on a speech-and-oath theory is a justice path. Utopia is not this instrument. Later Catholic martyr print is reception.

[Henry VIII](/people/henry-viii)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Reign 1509–1547. Statutes are parliamentary instruments with royal assent: Cromwell, bishops, judges, and unnamed officers share the file. Later legislation.gov.uk and TNA pages are carriers, not autographs. Complex contribution is required.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and The National Archives independently describe More’s 1535 execution.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Henry VIII (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: 6 July 1535 execution as calendared. Not established: a unique modern due-process score.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Henry VIII.

They are not a public rating.

Henry VIII did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat 1535 as a proof of the 1536 [Boleyn](/people/anne-boleyn) file. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Henry VIII.

## People

- Henry VIII: https://factrail.ai/people/henry-viii

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England
- https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/h8-more-1535