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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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On this day in Tudor history, 21st August, a bishop whose career spanned the reigns of three kings was forced to resign, and Humphrey Llwyd, the man behind the very first printed map of Wales, died…
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On this day in Tudor history, 20th August, in Elizabethan London, a thanksgiving service was held for England’s victory over the Spanish Armada, and James VI of Scotland married Anne of Denmark by proxy at at Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark…
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On this day in Tudor history, 19th August, Edward VI’s half-sister, Mary, wrote to him regarding him forbidding her to celebrate the Mass, and Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland from France to rule as its queen…
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On this day in Tudor history, 18th August, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and former Lord President of the king’s council, was tried for treason and found guilty, and Virginia Dare, the first child born to English settlers in the New World, was born in the Roanoke colony…
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On this day in Tudor history, 17th August, Henry VII’s former chief advisors, Sir Edmund Dudley and Sir Richard Empson, were executed for treason by Henry VIII, and Henry VIII’s Latin secretary, humanist scholar Andreas Ammonius, died of sweating sickness…
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On this day in Tudor history, 16th August, Henry VIII claimed the victory after the French fled the battlefield at the Battle of the Spurs, and soldier and Lord President of Munster in Ireland, Sir Thomas Norris, died at Mallow Castle, in Cork. He was one of five brothers who lost their lives in service to the queen…
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On this day in Tudor history, 15th August, Catholics Robert Wilcox, Edward Campion, Christopher Buxton and Robert Widmerpool, who’d become the Oaten Hill martyrs, were examined, and Lady Mary Scudamore (née Shelton), one of Elizabeth I’s favourite sleeping companions, was buried…
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On this day in Tudor history, 14th August, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, was born, and William Parr, Marquis of Northampton and brother of Queen Catherine Parr, was born…
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On this day in Tudor history, 13th August, Princess Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married Louis XII of France by proxy, and Friar Conn O’Rourke and Patrick O’Healy, Bishop of Mayo, were executed just outside Kilmallock…
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On this day in Tudor history, 12th August, translator, lawyer, physician and paediatrician Thomas Phaer made his will; Lady Ursula Stafford, daughter of Margaret Pole and wife of Henry Stafford, 10th Baron Stafford, died; and Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and son of Mary Boleyn, was buried in Westminster Abbey…
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On this day in Tudor history, 11th August, the friars observant were expelled from their houses due to their support of Catherine of Aragon, and Sir Maurice Berkeley, former gentleman usher of Henry VIII’s Privy Chamber, died…
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