Sean Bean in the television serial Henry VIII (2003) in which he is inaccurately portrayed as a violent former lieutenant of Henry's army. Aske was also portrayed by Gerard McSorley in the third season of Showtime's The Tudors. At the time of filming, McSorley was twenty years older than Aske was when he died. The series also shows Aske with a young family while, in fact, he was not married. The circumstances surrounding Aske's life feature prominently in C. J. Sansom's novel Sovereign and H. F. M. Prescott's novel The Man on a Donkey. The events surrounding the Pilgrimage of Grace, its instigators and its outcomes, form a significant episode in Hilary Mantel's novel The Mirror and the Light. The novel looks at the rebellion through the thoughts and actions of Thomas Cromwell in his capacity as a chief adviser to Henry VIII. See also All Saints Church, Aughton References External links Robert Aske I and II Web site of Haberdashers Aske's School, under reconstruction. 1500 births 1537 deaths English rebels English Roman Catholics 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs Members of Gray's Inn People executed under the Tudors for treason against England Executed people from the East Riding of Yorkshire People executed by the Kingdom of England by hanging People executed under Henry VIII