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…
March 18 – Elizabeth I is arrested and The birth of Mary Tudor, Queen of France
On this day in Tudor history, 18th March 1554, Palm Sunday, the twenty-year-old Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen…
March 17 – Alexander Alesius’ terrifying vision of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I’s famous Tide Letter
On this day in Tudor history, 17th March 1565, Scottish theologian and Reformer Alexander Alesius (also known as…
March 16 – Richard Burbage, actor and friend of Shakespeare and The martyrdom of two Catholic priests in York
On this day in history, 16th March 1619, actor Richard Burbage was buried at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.…
March 15 – Henry VIII uses foul language and The Lady Mary causes a stir in London
On this day in Tudor history, 15th March 1532, King Henry VIII used what was described as “foul…
March 14 – A man who served 4 monarchs and kept his head, and A mumbling judge causes problems
On this day in Tudor history, 14th March 1555, courtier, envoy and landowner, Sir John Russell, 1st Earl…