On this day in Tudor history, 19th September, Coventry Martyrs Robert Glover and Cornelius Bungey were burnt at the stake for their Protestant faith; and explorer, navigator and privateer Thomas Cavendish was baptised…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 19 September
#OTD in Tudor history – 18 September
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII rode triumphantly through the streets of Boulogne after the French surrendered it to him; and Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, a prospective bridegroom for both of Henry VIII’s daughters, died…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 17 September
On this day in Tudor history, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford and a man with a distinguished court career, died at Chartley; and loyal courtier and soldier Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, died during an outbreak of the plague…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 16 September
On this day in Tudor history, 16th September, scholar, humanist and theologian John Colet died after catching sweating sickness three times; and Henry VIII and Catherine Howard were given lots of gold on their royal progress…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 15 September
On this day in Tudor history, 15th September, John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, cardinal and Henry VII’s Lord Chancellor, died; and in the French Wars of Religion, the Battle of Arques began…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 14 September
On this day in Tudor history, 14th September, Henry VIII had a 12th century religious shrine destroyed; and Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, died…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 13 September
On this day in Tudor history, 13th September, famous Tudor poet and antiquary John Leland was born; and Elizabeth I’s chief advisor and “spirit”, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was born…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 12 September
On this day in Tudor history, 12th September, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s trial started in Oxford – he was in big trouble! And Protestant reformer and leading politician in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, died suddenly at Barbreck…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 11 September
On this day in Tudor history, 11th September, Mary, Queen of Scots, began a rather eventful first royal progress in Scotland; and Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron of Upper Ossory, a good friend of Edward VI, died in Dublin…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 10 September
On this day in Tudor history, 10th September, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was christened at Greenwich; and England defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the War of the Rough Wooing…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 9 September
On this day in Tudor history, the English force defeated the Scots at the Battle of Flodden while Catherine of Aragon was regent (1513); and the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned queen at Stirling Castle (1543)…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 8 September
On this day in Tudor history, 8th September, Amy Dudley (née Robsart), wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died after falling down some stairs; and John Shakespeare, father of playwright William Shakespeare, was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 7 September
On this day in Tudor history, 7th September, Queen Anne Boleyn gave birth at Greenwich Palace to a daughter who would become Queen Elizabeth I; and forty-nine-year-old Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, married his fourteen-year-old ward, Catherine Willoughby…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 6 September
On this day in Tudor history, 6th September, famous reformer Martin Luther sent his treatise to Pope Leo X; Sir Francis Drake entered the Pacific Ocean; and physician, clergyman and inventor of modern shorthand, Timothy Bright, was buried…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 5 September
On this day in Tudor history, 5th September, Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager, died a few days after giving birth to her first child at Sudeley Castle; and Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London and a man known as “Bloody Bonner”, died in prison…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 4 September
On this day in Tudor history, 4th September, William, Duke of Cleves, signed a treaty promising his sister, Anne, in marriage to Henry VIII; and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester died…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 3 September
On this day in Tudor history, Elizabethan actor and famous clown Richard Tarlton died; and writer and playwright Robert Greene, who dubbed Shakespeare an “upstart crow”, died…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 2 September
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd September, Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and Lord Deputy of Ireland, died in the Tower of London following a rebellion by his son, Silken Thomas; and naval commander and explorer Sir Richard Grenville died after the Battle of Flores…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 1 September
On this day in Tudor history, 1st September, Henry VIII elevated Anne Boleyn to the peerage, making her Marquess of Pembroke; and Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn was born…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 31 August
On this day in Tudor history, the Bloody Flux hit the port of Portsmouth killing soldiers and sailors; and former minister Robert Samuel, one of the Ipswich Martyrs, was burnt at the stake for his Protestant faith…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 30 August
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII and Louise of Savoy agreed the Treaty of the More, and Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager and wife of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, gave birth to a daughter, Mary…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 29 August
On this day in Tudor history, 29th August, Geoffrey Pole, son of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, and brother of the out-of-favour Cardinal Reginald Pole, was arrested; and it was the Feast of the beheading of St John the Baptist, a Tudor holy day…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 28 August
On this day in Tudor history, 28th August, Edward VI’s half-sister, Mary, was ordered to stop celebrating the Catholic mass, and an ailing Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote his final letter to his queen and childhood friend, Elizabeth I…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 27 August
On this day in Tudor history, 27th August, the Battle of Dussindale ended Kett’s Rebellion, and the English and Imperial forces stormed St Quentin…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 26 August
On this day in Tudor history, Queen Anne Boleyn took to her chamber to prepare for the birth of her first child, and Mary I and her husband, Philip II of Spain, rode through London before his departure for the Low Countries…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 25 August
On this day in Tudor history, 25th August, the rebels of Kett’s Rebellion launched at an attack on the city of Norwich, and Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, magnate, soldier and uncle of Queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, died at Kenninghall…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 24 August
On this day in Tudor history, 24th August, Cecily, Viscountess Welles, or Cecily of York, third daughter of Edward IV, died, and thousands of French Huguenots were brutally murdered in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 23 August
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd August, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn visited Acton Court on their royal progress, and Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, arrived at the Siege of Haddington, in East Lothian, Scotland, with a large army of Crown forces…
[Read More...]#OTD in Tudor history – 22 August
On this day in Tudor history, the forces of Henry Tudor defeated those of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, and John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was executed for his part in putting his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, on the throne…
[Read More...]Firebrand due for release in the UK and Ireland on September 6 2024
We're excited to hear that the UK and Ireland launch of the film Firebrand, staring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law, will be on September 6th!
"In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her. Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King."
