On this day in Tudor history, 9th October, Henry VIII’s sister, Mary Tudor, married Louis XII of France at Abbeville; and Miguel de Cervante, author of Don Quixote, was baptised in Alcalá de Henares…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 9 October
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#OTD in Tudor history – 8 October
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII’s niece, Lady Margaret Douglas, was born; and Henry VIII forced his daughter, Mary, to write to the pope and to Mary of Hungary, the emperor’s sister…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 7 October
On this day in Tudor history, 7th October, Pope Clement VII wrote to Henry VIII telling him that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon would not be annulled; and George Gascoigne, a gifted poet who was involved in Robert Dudley’s last ditch attempt to woo Elizabeth I, died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 6 October
On this day in Tudor history, 6th October, royal physician, scholar and college founder John Caius was born; and reformer and Bible translator William Tyndale, a man whose works had both helped Henry VIII and incurred the king’s wrath, was executed…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 5 October
On this day in Tudor history, 5th October, Henry VIII’s daughter, two-year-old Princess Mary, became betrothed to the French dauphin; and Lord Protector Somerset ordered a gathering of men at Hampton Court Palace to protect him and the young King Edward VI…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 3 October
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd October, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey sang a mass to Henry VIII and the French ambassadors at St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate a treaty between England and France; and imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys wrote to Charles V informing him that Jane Seymour’s coronation was being postponed…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 2 October
On this day in Tudor history, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, set sail from Dover to travel to France to marry Louis XII of France; and reformer and Bible translator William Tyndale’s book “The Obedience of a Christian Man” was published, a book which Anne Boleyn shared with Henry VIII…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 1 October
On this day in Tudor history, 1st October, scholar, royal tutor and administrator John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, died at Wisbech Castle; and Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 September
On this day in Tudor history, 30th September, a victorious Henry VIII returned to England after the French surrender of Boulogne; and Mary I’s coronation procession took place in London…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 29 September
On this day in Tudor history, 29th September, Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, papal legate, arrived in England ready to hear the case for Henry VIII’s annulment; and Elizabeth I made her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester so that he could marry Mary, Queen of Scots…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 22 September
Today is the traditional date given for the birth of Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII; and it’s also the anniversary of the burial of Amy Dudley (née Robsart), wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at St Mary’s Church, Oxford…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 17 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 16 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 13 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 11 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 6 August
On this day in Tudor history, 6th August, Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married Archibald Douglas in secret; the Battle of Clyst Heath took place; and Anne Hathaway, wife of playwright William Shakespeare, died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 July
On this day in Tudor history, 30th July, both Catholics and Reformers were executed at Smithfield; Henry VIII’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth, left Somerset House to greet her half-sister, Mary I, the new queen; and writer and diarist Robert Parry was born…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 28 July
On this day in Tudor history, 28th July, Thomas Cromwell suffered a rather botched execution; Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford, was executed for magic and “detestable vice and sin”; and Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 25 July
On this day in Tudor history, 25th July, Henry VIII was furious with his court fool; Mary I married Philip of Spain, son of Emperor Charles V, at Winchester Cathedral; and child actor Salomon Pavy was buried…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 22 July
On this day in Tudor history, soldier and royal councillor John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope, was born; Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, died; and playwright Edward Sharpham was baptised…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 19 July
On this day in Tudor history, Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and mistress of Henry VIII, died; Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, sank in the Battle of the Solent; and Mary I was proclaimed queen in place of Queen Jane…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 16 July
On this day in Tudor history, Frances Grey (née Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk, was born; Anne Askew was burnt at the stake for heresy with two others; and Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife, died at Chelsea Old Manor…
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