Claire | December 15, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 15th December 1558, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Cardinal Reginald Pole was laid to rest at Canterbury Cathedral. Cardinal Pole had served the previous monarch, Queen Mary I as Archbishop of Canterbury and her chief advisor, and he had died the same day as his queen, on […]
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Claire | November 17, 2013
On 17th November 1558, Henry VIII’s eldest child, Queen Mary I, died. She was just forty-two years-old. After Easter 1558, Mary I made her will because she believed that she was pregnant. The birth should have been imminent because Philip departed in July 1557, yet there is no mention in the records of preparations being […]
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Claire | November 4, 2011
On this day in history… 1530 – William (some say Walter) Walsh and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, arrived at Cawood Castle and arrested Cardinal Thomas Wolsey for high treason. 1538 – Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, was arrested for treason along with his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Neville, and Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, and […]
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Claire | October 26, 2011
On this day in history, 26th October… 1529 – Thomas More took his oath as Chancellor 1536 – The rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace halted at Scawsby Leys, near Doncaster, where they met troops captained by the Duke of Norfolk. The rebels were said to number around 30,000 and Norfolk’s army only a fifth […]
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