December 20 – The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk begs for forgiveness
On this day in Tudor history, 20th December 1541, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess…
Read More20 December -Edward Arden was hanged and Agnes Tilney begged King Henry VIII for forgiveness
On this day in Tudor history, 20th December 1583, the day after his son-in-law, John Somerville, had been found dead…
Read More9 December – Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard’s step-grandmother, was detained and Sir Edward Neville was beheaded.
In this day in Tudor history, 9th December 1541, sixty-four-year-old Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and step-grandmother of…
Read More22 December 1541 – The Howards and Tilneys tried for misprision of treason
Tower of London On this day in 1541, members of the Howard and Tilney family, plus their staff, were tried…
Read MoreThe Howards’ Miserable Christmas
On this day in 1541, A "very sickly" Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who was imprisoned in the Tower…
Read MoreInterrogatories to be ministered to the Duchess of Norfolk concerning her and the Queen
Thomas Wriothesley On 4th December 1541, Thomas Wriothesley and William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, wrote to Sir Ralph Sadler, Henry…
Read MoreElizabeth Tilney, grandmother of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, and her cousin Agnes Tilney, their step-grandmother by Marilyn Roberts
Book cover showing the 'duchess' window, Long Melford, Suffolk, with Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk (left) and Elizabeth Tilney, Countess…
Read More