Claire | November 18, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 18th November 1559, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, eighty-five-year-old Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, died. At the time of his death, Tunstall was in the custody of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace. The bishop’s career had begun under Henry VIII, and he’d been imprisoned […]
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Claire | November 17, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 17th November 1558, the daughter of King Henry VIII by his second wife, Anne Boleyn, became Queen of England. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth became queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I, who had ruled for five years. Elizabeth would reign for over forty-four years. In the video and […]
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Claire | November 16, 2022
On this day in history, 16th November 1612, William Stafford died. The date of his death may be out of the Tudor period, but he was an alleged Elizabethan conspirator and he was the second son of William Stafford, widower of Mary Boleyn, and the grandson of Ursula Pole, daughter of Margaret Pole, Countess of […]
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Claire | November 15, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 15th November 1532, an exasperated Pope Clement VII threatened King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, with excommunication. Why would the pope do that when Pope Leo X had granted the king the title of Defender of the Faith in 1521? Well, because Henry VIII had defied […]
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Claire | November 14, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November 1501, the Feast of St Erkenwald, Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, married Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. The couple got married at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. And on […]
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Claire | November 13, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 13th November 1553, in the reign of Queen Mary I, Lady Jane Grey was tried for treason. The former Queen Jane was tried at Guildhall in London along with her husband Lord Guildford Dudley, his brothers Ambrose and Henry Dudley, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who were accused […]
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Claire | November 12, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 12th November 1537, in the reign of King Henry VIII, the remains of the king’s third wife, Jane Seymour, were taken to Windsor Castle in preparation for her funeral. Jane Seymour’s heart and entrails were buried in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, where she had died on […]
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Claire | November 11, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 11th November 1534, in the reign of King Henry VIII, the Admiral of France landed on English soil. Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur De Brion’s mission was to renew Anglo-French relations. Queen Anne Boleyn’s brother, George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, had been put in charge of meeting the admiral and escorting […]
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