Julius Ralph Ruff. Violence in early contemporary Europe, 1500-1800. p. Maschke, Karen J. The Legal Response to Violence versus Women. Henry took mistresses. It was discovered in 1510 that Henry had been conducting an affair with a single of the sisters of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, both Elizabeth or Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. The most sizeable mistress for about three years, starting in 1516, was Elizabeth Blount.