The Tudor Society
  • #OTD in Tudor history – 6 April

    Portraits of Francis Walsingham and Edward Seymour Earl of Hertford

    On this day in Tudor history, 6th April, Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire and a favourite of Henry VIII, died; Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s principal secretary and spymaster, died; and Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford and son of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, died…

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