On this day in Tudor history, 10th September, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was christened at Greenwich; and England defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the War of the Rough Wooing…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 10 September
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#OTD in Tudor history – 4 September
On this day in Tudor history, 4th September, William, Duke of Cleves, signed a treaty promising his sister, Anne, in marriage to Henry VIII; and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 1 September
On this day in Tudor history, 1st September, Henry VIII elevated Anne Boleyn to the peerage, making her Marquess of Pembroke; and Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn was born…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 August
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII and Louise of Savoy agreed the Treaty of the More, and Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager and wife of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, gave birth to a daughter, Mary…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 23 August
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd August, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn visited Acton Court on their royal progress, and Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, arrived at the Siege of Haddington, in East Lothian, Scotland, with a large army of Crown forces…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 17 August
On this day in Tudor history, 17th August, Henry VII’s former chief advisors, Sir Edmund Dudley and Sir Richard Empson, were executed for treason by Henry VIII, and Henry VIII’s Latin secretary, humanist scholar Andreas Ammonius, died of sweating sickness…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 16 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 13 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 11 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 6 August
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 July
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 28 July
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 25 July
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 22 July
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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#OTD in Tudor history – 19 July
On this day in Tudor history, Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and mistress of Henry VIII, died; Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, sank in the Battle of the Solent; and Mary I was proclaimed queen in place of Queen Jane…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 16 July
On this day in Tudor history, Frances Grey (née Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk, was born; Anne Askew was burnt at the stake for heresy with two others; and Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife, died at Chelsea Old Manor…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 12 July
On this day in Tudor history, 12th July, Henry VIII married his sixth wife, Catherine Parr; men flocked to Lady Mary’s cause and Queen Jane made a mistake; and four Protestants were burnt at the stake in Canterbury for heresy…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 11 July
On this day in Tudor history, 11th July, the pope ordered Henry VIII to abandon Anne Boleyn on pain of excommunication; some Suffolk men were torn between supporting Queen Jane or Lady Mary; and plague hit Stratford-upon-Avon…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 9 July
On this day in Tudor history, 9th July, Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves was officially annulled; the Lady Mary (Mary I) wrote to the Privy Council stating her claim to the throne and demanding their allegiance; and Elizabeth I began a 19-day visit at Robert Dudley’s home, Kenilworth Castle…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 8 July
On this day in Tudor history, Margaret Tudor set off for Scotland to marry James IV; Kett’s Rebellion began in East Anglia; and Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary, declared herself queen at Kenninghall…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 7 July
On this day in Tudor history, 7th July, Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary, heard of her half-brother Edward VI’s death; Henry Peckham and John Danyell were hanged, drawn and quartered for their involvement in the Dudley Conspiracy; and William Turner, “father of English botany and of ornithology”, died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 1 July
On this day in Tudor history, 1st July, Sir Thomas More was tried and found guilty of treason; Parliament declared both of Henry VIII’s daughters illegitimate; and the Treaties of Greenwich between England and Scotland were signed, and a marriage agreed between Prince Edward (Edward VI) and Mary, Queen of Scots…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 June
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII and Catherine Howard set off on their ill-fated progress to the North; and keen sportsman, King Henry II of France, suffered a mortal head wound while jousting…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 29 June
On this day in Tudor history, 29th June, Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, died; Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, died; and the Globe Theatre burned to the ground after catching fire during a performance of “Henry VIII”…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 28 June
On this day in Tudor history, 28th June, King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich Palace: rebel Sir James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, was executed; and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel and a man condemned for treason in Elizabeth I’s reign, was born…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 27 June
On this day in Tudor history, 27th June, two of the chief commanders of the Cornish rebels were executed; thirteen-year-old Prince Henry (Henry VIII) repudiated his betrothal to Catherine of Aragon; and William Bradbridge, Bishop of Exeter, died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 25 June
On this day in Tudor history, Catherine of Aragon became betrothed to Prince Henry, the future Henry VIII, and Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France, sister of Henry VIII and wife of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, died at the age of 37…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 24 June
On this day in Tudor history, 24th June, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned king and queen in a joint coronation ceremony; Elizabeth I’s favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was born; and courtier and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 23 June
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd June, Henry VIII and his new bride, Catherine of Aragon, had their coronation procession through the streets of London; mathematician and physician Thomas Hood was baptised; and miniaturist Levina Teerlinc died…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 22 June
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd June, Henry VIII created 26 Knights of the Bath; Mary Boleyn lost her first husband to sweating sickness; Bishop Fisher was executed; and Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary, submitted to her father…
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