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24 September 1486 – The Christening of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

| September 24, 2015

24 September 1486 – The Christening of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

On 24th September 1486, four days after his birth, Arthur, Prince of Wales and son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was christened at a lavish ceremony at Winchester Cathedral. During Elizabeth of York’s pregnancy, Arthur’s grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, had written a set of ordinances for the birth of […]

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