George Boleyn Biography Published
While researching the Boleyns for my books and for The Anne Boleyn Files, I came across Deux Gentilshommes-Poetes…
Tudor Characters
25 October 1532 – Henry VIII and Francis I arrive at Calais
On Friday 25th October 1532, Henry VIII and Francis I left Boulogne, where Henry VIII had been Francis’s…
The Dudley Carving of the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London
This beautiful carving of the Dudley coat of arms is thought to have been made by John Dudley,…
16 October 1555 – The Burnings of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley at Oxford
Today is the anniversary of the burnings of two of the Oxford Martyrs, Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester,…
9 October 1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII
On 9th October 1514, the feast day of St Denis, the eighteen year-old Mary Tudor, sister of Henry…
8 October 1515 – Birth of Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was born on this day in 1515. Margaret was the daughter of…
6th October 1536 – The End of William Tyndale
On 6th October 1536, or somewhere around that date, English reformer, scholar and Bible translator, William Tyndale, “was…