March 25 – Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York, and her awful end and the start of the new calendar year in the Tudor period
On this day in Tudor history, 25th March 1586, Good Friday and also Lady Day, the Feast of…
March 24 – Robert Rich and Penelope Devereux, an unhappy marriage and The end of Queen Elizabeth I
On this day in history, 24th March 1619, Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, Tudor nobleman and politician,…
March 23 – The last abbey is dissolved and the Pope issued a bull proclaiming Catherine of Aragon to be England’s true queen
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd March 1540, Waltham Abbey, an Augustinian house in Essex, was surrendered…
March 22 – William Bourne, his life and his submarine, and Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, a woman with spirit
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd March 1582, gunner, mathematician and writer, William Bourne was buried at…
March 21 – Elizabeth I takes to her bed and The end of Thomas Cranmer
On this day in Tudor history, 21st March 1603, a dying Queen Elizabeth I finally took to her…
March 20 – St Cuthbert Mayne, an Elizabethan priest and martyr, and Forgetting God to love a king – Thomas Seymour’s end
On this day in Tudor history, 20th March 1544, Cuthbert Mayne (Main/Maine) or St Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic…
March 19 – Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell and Romeo and Juliet’s author dies in a shipwreck
On this day in Tudor history, 19th March 1568, Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, died. She was around fifty…