The Tudor Society
  • #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 17 – A stolen head

    On this day in Tudor history, 17th April 1554, celebrations led to a head being stolen!

    The head belonged to Thomas Wyatt the Younger, leader of Wyatt’s Rebellion, who’d been executed on 11th April. It was never recovered.

    The people of London were celebrating the acquittal of diplomat and politician Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who’d been tried for treason for his involvement in Wyatt’s Rebellion against Mary I.

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