On this day in Tudor history, 26th May, Henry VIII and Charles V met at Dover Castle; Henry VIII's eldest daughter, Mary, wrote to Cromwell asking him to intercede with her father on her behalf; and Barbara Sidney (née Gamage), Countess of Leicester, was buried at Penshurst...
- 1520 – Meeting of King Henry VIII and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, at Dover Castle. See video below.
- 1536 - The Lady Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, wrote to Thomas Cromwell asking him to intercede with her father on her behalf, now that Anne Boleyn was gone. See video below.
- 1537 – Executions of Adam Sedbergh, Cistercian monk and Abbot of Jervaulx, and William Wood, Prior of Bridlington, at Tyburn. They were condemned for treason following the Pilgrimage of Grace.
- 1538 – Death of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Judge and legal writer. He was buried at Norbury, Derbyshire. He is one of the best-known English legal writers of the sixteenth century.
- 1583 – Death of Esmé Stuart, 1st Duke of Lennox, only child of John Stuart, fifth Seigneur d'Aubigny, and his wife, Anne de La Queulle.
- 1596 – Burial of Thomas Bickley, Bishop of Chichester, in Chichester Cathedral.
- 1604 – Death of Godfrey Goldsborough, Bishop of Gloucester. He was buried in the Cathedral.
- 1621 – Burial of Barbara Sidney (née Gamage), Countess of Leicester, at Penshurst. See video below.
- 1623 – Death of Francis Anthony, alchemist and physician. He was buried in the church of St Bartholomew-the-Great.
