The Tudor Society
  • #OTD in Tudor history – 11 March

    A portrait of Pope Leo X and Giles Fletcher's work "The History of Russia"

    On this day in Tudor history, 11th March, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici was proclaimed Pope Leo X, poet William Warner, “Our English Homer”, was buried, and poet, diplomat and MP Giles Fletcher the Elder died in London…

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  • 11 March – William Warner, our English Homer and The wonderful deathbed words of an Elizabethan poet

    On this day in history, 11th March 1609, Tudor poet and lawyer William Warner was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell in Hertfordshire.

    Not many people today have heard of William Warner, but he was a well-respected and well-known poet in the Tudor era and even described as “our English Homer”. He is known for his huge poem, “Albion’s England, or, Historicall Map of the same Island”.

    Find out more about this poet in this talk…

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  • 11 March – William Warner, our English Homer

    On this day in history, 11th March 1609, Tudor poet and lawyer William Warner was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell in Hertfordshire.

    Not many people today have heard of William Warner, but he was a well-respected and well-known poet in the Tudor era and even described as “our English Homer”. He is known for his huge poem, “Albion’s England, or, Historicall Map of the same Island”.

    Find out more about this poet in today’s talk.

    [Read More...]