It’s a new season of “The Tudors” on Showtime, and there are new historical figures to grab our fancy and learn about! I would say the most notable personality in question from tonight’s season premiere is Thomas Culpepper, future partner-in-adultery to Katherine Howard. 

Here’s what Tudorswiki has to say about the scandal. Apparently, Thomas and his brother, Thomas (named identically like many young noble men at the time, in case one died and the family needed a back-up) were both at court at the time. The younger one was the member of Henry’s Privy Chamber and Kitty’s flirtation target. According to this source, “There is some documentary evidence that one of the Culpepper brothers raped a parkkeeper’s wife and murdered the man who came to her assistance … most historical texts seem to indicate that it was” our man from tonight’s episode. Eeeesh. (But although it looks “likely,” remember that it’s not a definite.)

(Just for fun, here’s where he lay for the final time).