The Tudors: Season 3

2009 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 3 of The Tudors

Henry VIII marries for the third time, to Jane Seymour, a shy, modest young woman who must give him the male heir he needs. He and his advisers pray that the marriage will bear fruit. But the kingdom is not at peace. Subjects who were once loyal rebel against his anti-Catholic crusade, and the Pilgrimage of Grace gains strength in the north. The king sends Brandon to negotiate with the rebels while he remains in bed, his leg injured after a joust. From his sickbed, he seeks new adventures and takes Lady Ursula Misseldon as his lover. Meanwhile, he reconciles with his daughters Mary and Elizabeth.

8episodes

Apr 5, 2009premiered

May 24, 2009latest episode

6.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Civil Unrest
Apr 5, 2009 · 48 min · ★ 6.6
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.
Directing: Ciarán Donnelly · Starring: Anthony Brophy, Sarah Bolger, Charlotte Salt, Mark Hildreth
3x02 The Northern Uprising
Apr 12, 2009 · 47 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Ciarán Donnelly · Starring: Sarah Bolger, Max Brown, Charlotte Salt, Mark Hildreth
3x03 Dissention and Punishment
Apr 19, 2009 · 49 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Ciarán Donnelly · Starring: Sarah Bolger, Max Brown, Charlotte Salt, Emma Hamilton
3x04 The Death of a Queen
Apr 26, 2009 · 49 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Ciarán Donnelly
3x05 Problems in the Reformation
May 3, 2009 · 51 min · ★ 6.7
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.
Directing: Jeremy Podeswa · Starring: David Bradley
3x06 Search for a New Queen
May 10, 2009 · 54 min · ★ 6.5
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.
Directing: Jeremy Podeswa · Starring: Emma Hamilton, Paul Ronan
3x07 Protestant Anne of Cleves
May 17, 2009 · 52 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Jeremy Podeswa · Starring: Paul Ronan, Sarah Mulligan
3x08 The Undoing of Cromwell Season Finale
May 24, 2009 · 52 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Jeremy Podeswa · Starring: Colin O'Donoghue