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#OTD in Tudor history – 6 November

On this day in Tudor history, 6th November, Catherine of Aragon met Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, for the first time (1501); and Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, was abandoned by her husband the king at Hampton Court Palace. She would never see him again (1541)...

  • 1501 – Catherine of Aragon met Arthur, Prince of Wales, for the first time at Dogmersfield in Hampshire. They married eight days later at St Paul's. See video below.
  • 1514 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France, processed into Paris following her coronation the previous day at Saint-Denis. Click here to read more.
  • 1541 – Henry VIII abandoned his Catherine Howard, his fifth wife, at Hampton Court Palace. The investigation into John Lassell’s claims that Catherine had two sexual relationships during her time in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk’s household had proved them true. See video below.
  • 1558 – Baptism of Thomas Kyd, translator and playwright, at St Mary Woolnoth in London. Kyd is known for his play “The Spanish Tragedy”. Click here to read more about Kyd.
  • 1612 – Death of Nicholas Fitzherbert, author and former secretary of Cardinal William Allen, near Florence in Italy. Fitzherbert drowned while trying to ford a stream en route to Rome. Fitzherbert left England in the 1570s because of his Catholic faith and to study law at Bologna. In 1580, while he was in Italy, he was attainted of treason back in England due to his Catholic faith. He was buried at Florence, in the Benedictine abbey.

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#OTD in Tudor history – 6 November