7.9/10719 votes#1 - Civil Unrest
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2009
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: Ciaran Donnelly
Writer: N/A
7.8/10650 votes#2 - The Northern Uprising
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2009
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: Ciaran Donnelly
Writer: N/A
7.9/10643 votes#3 - Dissention and Punishment
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2009
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: Ciaran Donnelly
Writer: N/A
8.2/10657 votes#4 - The Death of a Queen
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2009
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: Ciaran Donnelly
Writer: N/A
7.5/10648 votes#5 - Problems in the Reformation
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2009
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
Writer: N/A
7.5/10616 votes#6 - Search for a New Queen
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2009
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
Writer: N/A
7.6/10611 votes#7 - Protestant Anne of Cleves
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2009
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
Writer: N/A
8.0/10671 votes#8 - The Undoing of Cromwell
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2009
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
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Tudors Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Civil Unrest" is the best rated episode of "The Tudors" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 719 votes. Directed by Ciaran Donnelly and written by N/A, it aired on 4/5/2009. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Northern Uprising".