On this day in Tudor history, 11th December, Henry VIII’s bride-to-be, Anne of Cleves, was received in a lavish ceremony at Gravelines (1539), and Lady Douglas Sheffield, one-time lover (and perhaps wife!) of Robert Dudley, and the mother of his illegitimate son, was buried (1608)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 10th December 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed for treason for their involvement in Queen Catherine Howard’s fall (1541), and Catholic priest Edmund Gennings and Catholic Swithin Wells were executed for treason (1591)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 9th December, Sir Edward Neville was executed for treason for allegedly conspiring against King Henry VIII (1538), and Queen Catherine Howard’s step-grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, was questioned (1541)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 8th December, Sir William Coffin, Master of the Horse to Queens Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, died (1538), and Mary, Queen of Scots, was born at Linlithgow Palace (1542)…
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On This day in Tudor history, 7th December, Mary, Queen of Scots’ second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born (1545), and rebel leader Robert Kett was hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle (1549)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 6th December, soldier and administrator Sir Hugh Paulet, a man who served four monarchs, died (1573), and the Feast of St Nicholas was celebrated with the election of a Boy Bishop…
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On this day in Tudor history, 5th December, Anne de Vere (née Cecil), wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and daughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was born (1556), and King Francis II of France, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, died of an ear infection (1560)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 4th December, merchant tailor and prominent Lollard Richard Hunne was found hanging in his prison cell in suspicious circumstances (1514) and the pope deprived Thomas Cranmer of his archbishopric and permission was granted for his fate to be decided by the secular authorities (1555)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 3rd December, a proclamation was made to the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace offering them a pardon (1536), and sixty-nine-year-old peer and politician Roger North, 2nd Baron North, died at his London home (1600)…
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On this in Tudor history, 2nd December, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was arrested after being accused of improper heraldry (1546), and Elizabeth I finally agreed to a public proclamation of sentence against Mary, Queen of Scots: death (1586)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 1st December, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death (1541), and Catholic priests Alexander Briant, Ralph Sherwin and Edmund Campion were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn (1581)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 30th November, Henry VIII was reproached by the two women in his life: his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and the woman he wanted to marry, Anne Boleyn (1529), and Elizabeth I delivered her famous Golden Speech to the House of Commons (1601)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 29th November, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, a courtier who served in four monarchs’ reigns, was born (1528), and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey cheated the executioner by dying on his journey to London to answer charges of treason (1530)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 28th November, claimant Edward Plantagenet, son of the late Duke of Clarence, was executed for treason on Tower Hill (1499), and MP and political agent Francis Yaxley drowned while bringing gold to Mary, Queen of Scots (1565)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 27th November, a former Benedictine monk was burnt at Smithfield for heresy for importing Lutheran books (1531); and 18-year-old William Shakespeare got married to 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant at the time (1582)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 26th November, Henry VIII’s 14-year-old illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, married Lady Mary Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk (1533); and the first men to be executed under the new treason laws against Jesuits in Elizabeth I’s reign were hanged at York (1585)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 25th November, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII’s queen consort, was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey (1487), and lawyer, MP, diplomat and ecclesiastical administrator Sir Thomas Legh died (1545)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 24th November, Elizabeth of York’s coronation procession took place in London (1487), and Scottish Reformer, clergyman and founder of Presbyterianism, John Knox, died at his home in Edinburgh (1572)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 23rd November, Pretender Perkin Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn (1499), and scrivener and sailor Edward Squire was hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to poison Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex (1598)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 22nd November, Henry VIII’s trusted physician and confidant Sir William Butts died at Fulham Manor (1545); and naval commander, privateer and explorer Sir Martin Frobisher died of gangrene (1594) after suffering an injury in hand-to-hand combat…
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On this day in Tudor history, 21st November, John Bale, Protestant playwright, historian and bishop, was born (1495); and Frances Grey (née Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk and mother of Lady Jane Grey, died (1559)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 20th November, Elizabeth I’s Lord Chancellor and favourite, Sir Christopher Hatton, a man she called her “mouton”, died (1591); and her godson, author, courtier and a man who invented a flush toilet, Sir John Harington, died (1612)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 19th November, Lord John Grey, youngest son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, died naturally even though he’d once been condemned to death (1564); and poet, Catholic recusant and priest harbourer Henry Vaux died of consumption (1587)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 18th November, Ralph Baynes, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, died while imprisoned in the Bishop of London’s home, and his fellow clergyman, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, died in prison at Lambeth Palace (1559)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 17th November, Queen Mary I died at St James’s Palace, London, and her half-sister, Elizabeth, became Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth would reign for over forty-four years (1558)…
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On this day in history, 16th November, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, a man who’d been involved in the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I, died in exile (1601); and William Stafford, who’d allegedly plotted the Stafford Plot against Elizabeth I, died (1612)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 15th November, Katherine of York, Countess of Devon, died at Tiverton Castle (1527); and Pope Clement VII threatened Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with excommunication because Henry VIII had defied the pope’s instructions (1532)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 14th November, Catherine of Aragon married Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (1501); Henry VIII may have married Anne Boleyn (1532); and an inventory was taken of Thomas Culpeper’s “goods and chattels, lands and fees” (1541)…
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On this day in Tudor history, 13th November, mercer and member of Parliament Robert Packington was shot to death by an unknown assailant (1536); and Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, two of his brothers, and Archbishop Cranmer were tried for treason…
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On this day in Tudor history, 12th November, Queen Jane Seymour’s remains were taken from Hampton Court Palace to Windsor Castle for burial (1537); and Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, “Wily Winchester”, died (1555)…
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