Yes, hundreds.

From the Roman occupation throughout the middle ages black men and women appear in the written record across all levels of society. Henry VIII had a black trumpeter, one of the foremost christian intellectuals of Europe founded a school of philosophy and religion in Canterbury in the 7th century, a black man named Reasonable Blackman worked as a silkweaver in the late 1500s in London.

It is a remarkbale story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did researching it!

For those who might be interested, please see the excellent book "Black Tudors" by Miranda Kaufmann (2017).

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