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...
- 1514 - Princess Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married King Louis XII by proxy at Greenwich Palace. Mary was present at the ceremony, but the Duke of Longueville stood in for the groom. See video below.
- 1566 – Death of Sir Humphrey Radcliffe, member of Parliament, at his manor of Elstow. He was buried in Elstow Church. Radcliffe served as a member of Parliament during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, and then as a JP and Sheriff in Elizabeth I's reign.
- 1568 – Death of William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester. He was buried in Chichester Cathedral.
- 1579 – Executions of Roman Catholic martyrs Friar Conn O'Rourke and Patrick O'Healy, Bishop of Mayo. They were hanged just outside Kilmallock, co. Limerick. O'Healy was tortured before his death, by having spikes driven through his hands, in the hope that he would give Sir William Drury, Lord President of Munster, details on James fitz Maurice Fitzgerald's plans to lead a Catholic crusade to Ireland. He would not talk. O'Healy was beatified in 1992. See video below.
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