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  • #OTD in Tudor history – 11 April

    Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger

    On this day in Tudor history, 11th April, Henry VIII ordered his council to recognise Anne Boleyn as queen; Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger was executed by beheading after his failed rebellion against Mary I; and conspirator, patron and collector John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, died…

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  • April 11 – John Lumley, Baron Lumley

    On this day in history, 11th April 1609, in the reign of King James I, conspirator, patron and collector, John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, died at his London home.

    Lumley made a garden in honour of Elizabeth I, as an apology to her, and is known to have possessed a full-length portrait of Anne Boleyn.

    Here are a few more facts about this Tudor baron…

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