The Best Episodes of The Tudors Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(768 votes)

   #1 - Civil Unrest

   S3:E14/5/2009

   King Henry marries for the third time, taking as his queen the demure noblewoman Jane Seymour. A growing number of his subjects protest the king's decision to abandon the Catholic Church.

   Director:Ciarán Donnelly

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   7.8/10(691 votes)

   #2 - The Northern Uprising

   S3:E24/12/2009

   The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as "The Pilgrimage of Grace." Immobilized by an old jousting injury, Henry sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising and focuses his attention on the Lady Ursula Misseldon.

   Director:Ciarán Donnelly

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   7.9/10(688 votes)

   #3 - Dissention and Punishment

   S3:E34/19/2009

   Henry reconciles with his estranged daughters Mary and Elizabeth in time for the Christmas holidays, but betrays and brutally suppresses the rebellion against him after making conciliatory promises to the uprising's leaders.

   Director:Ciarán Donnelly

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   8.2/10(700 votes)

   #4 - The Death of a Queen

   S3:E44/26/2009

   The leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising are put to death, but Brandon is disturbed by the cruelty and mercilessness of the suppression; Henry celebrates the birth of a son but his joy is short-lived as Queen Jane dies within days.

   Director:Ciarán Donnelly

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   7.5/10(689 votes)

   #5 - Problems in the Reformation

   S3:E55/3/2009

   Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.

   Director:Jeremy Podeswa

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   7.6/10(658 votes)

   #6 - Search for a New Queen

   S3:E65/10/2009

   Matchmaking begins in earnest as Cromwell schemes to secure the Reformation by marrying Henry to a Protestant wife - but the king's marital reputation precedes him; the condition of Henry's wounded leg turns life-threatening.

   Director:Jeremy Podeswa

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   7.6/10(651 votes)

   #7 - Protestant Anne of Cleves

   S3:E75/17/2009

   War looms with France and Spain aligning against England with backing from Rome, so Henry agrees to a politically fortuitous marriage with Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone), a plain and unsophisticated German aristocrat he has never met.

   Director:Jeremy Podeswa

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   8.0/10(713 votes)

   #8 - The Undoing of Cromwell

   S3:E85/24/2009

   Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne of Cleves, and beds a new mistress, 17-year-old Katherine Howard; Princess Mary falls in love with Duke Philip of Bavaria; Cromwell's fall from favor is sudden and dramatic.

   Director:Jeremy Podeswa

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