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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On this day in Tudor history, 15th August, Catholics Robert Wilcox, Edward Campion, Christopher Buxton and Robert Widmerpool, who’d become the Oaten Hill martyrs, were examined, and Lady Mary Scudamore (née Shelton), one of Elizabeth I’s favourite sleeping companions, was buried…
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On this day in Tudor history, 14th August, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, was born, and William Parr, Marquis of Northampton and brother of Queen Catherine Parr, was born…
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 12th August, translator, lawyer, physician and paediatrician Thomas Phaer made his will; Lady Ursula Stafford, daughter of Margaret Pole and wife of Henry Stafford, 10th Baron Stafford, died; and Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and son of Mary Boleyn, was buried in Westminster Abbey…
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 10th August, the English fleet’s flagship, the Mary Rose, saw battle for the first time in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu; the friars observant were expelled from their houses; Mary I held a requiem mass for Edward VI; and seven men died of drowning at London Bridge…
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On this day in Tudor history, 9th August, composer Nicholas Ludford was buried; Elizabeth I issued a royal mandate that caused concern, and even horror, among some of her clergy; and Elizabeth I gave her famous Tilbury Speech to the troops at Tilbury Fort…
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On this day in Tudor history, Margaret Tudor married James IV of Scotland at Holyroodhouse; Edward VI was buried at Westminster Abbey in a Protestant service; and Elizabeth I accepted the Earl of Leicester’s invitation to visit the troops at Tilbury Fort…
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On this day in Tudor history, Henry Tudor dropped anchor at Mill Bay in readiness to claim the throne of England; five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, set sail for France; and mariner and cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was born…
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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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Thank you so much to Ceri Creffield for letting me know about Caerphilly Council’s plans to withdraw its subsidy of £485,000 per year to run Llancaiach Fawr Manor.
This is devastating news for the manor as it means that it could close, which would be a huge loss.
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On this day in Tudor history, Sir Reginald Bray, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, died; Crown troops defeated rebels at the Battle of Clyst St Mary; and John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, and his brother, Alexander, were killed as they tried to kidnap James VI in the Gowrie Conspiracy…
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On this day in Tudor history, 4th August, thirteen men were executed at Tyburn, including Brother William Horne of the London Charterhouse and Giles Heron, a former ward of Sir Thomas More; the Battle of Woodbury Common took place; and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and chief advisor to Elizabeth I, died…
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On this day in Tudor history, 3rd August, Lord Russell marched his troops towards the Prayer Book rebels; the new queen, Mary I, processed with her half-sister Elizabeth through the streets of London; and notorious rake John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, died…
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On this day in Tudor history, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was granted a licence to found a college at his manor of Thornbury; an English Protestant was burned in Rome; and Spanish forces landed on the Cornish coast…
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On this day in Tudor history, 1st August, apothecary, alchemist and medium Sir Edward Kelley was born; Joan Waste, a blind woman, was burnt for heresy; and courtier John Astley (Ashley) died…
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On this day in Tudor history, the future Elizabeth I wrote her earliest surviving letter. It was to her stepmother, Queen Catherine Parr; Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father of Lady Jane Grey, was released from the Tower of London; and Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, was killed by a butcher during Kett’s Rebellion…
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 29th July, Henry VII’s stepfather, Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby, died; Mary, Queen of Scots, married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and the English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines…
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 27th July, former royal tutor and secretary John Cheke was imprisoned; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, sent Elizabeth I an invitation to try and keep her from harm; and Catholic priest William Davies was executed on Anglesey…
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On this day in Tudor history, 26th July, courtier and solder George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, died; and 4,000 men gathered at Tilbury Fort to defend England against the Spanish Armada. It’s also the feast day of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary…
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 24th July, merchant and conspirator Richard Hesketh was born; Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicated and her one-year-old son became King James VI of Scotland; and Catholic priest John Boste was executed…
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On this day in Tudor history, 23rd July, Marie de Guise and her infant daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Linlithgow Palace; Protestant printer John Day died; and Lord Chamberlain Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, son of Mary Boleyn, died…
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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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