ALICE SANDS CRANMER born about 1500

When Aunt Maggie took Nancy and I to the movies to see Henry VIII in 1948, we loved it and had no idea that the three of us were descendants of the Cranmer family.  Thomas Cranmer was the Bishop of Canterbury and close confident of the king during Henry VIII's reign and was later burned at the stake.

Alice Sands was from Kent, England in the southeast near London.  She married Edmund Cranmer, brother of Thomas, who had been educated at Cambridge and was named Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1534.  During this time, England was in religious turmoil while some royalty still were loyal to the Catholic Church, and to the Pope, and others leaned toward the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant leaders and didn't like the hierarchy with the Pope above the King of England.  Both Edmund and his brother Thomas were church leaders and both leaned toward Protestantism and both were married, although kept their wives and families under wraps at times.

Alice and Edmund had about six children including Alice who married the widower of her first cousin, Thomas' daughter, Margaret.

When Catholic Mary became queen, Edmund fled to Germany.  His brother Thomas was burned at the stake in 1555.  I haven't yet learned when or where Alice died.


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