Claire | June 21, 2011
Thanks so much to author Susan Higginbotham for pointing this History Today article out, I don’t know how I missed it! In the article entitled “Point of Departure: An Unfit Traveller”, historian Linda Porter writes about the fate of Mary Seymour, daughter of Catherine Parr and her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour, and attempts to solve […]
Category: News, Six Wives, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Catherine Brandon, Catherine Parr, Catherine Willoughby, Katherine Parr, Mary Seymour, Thomas Seymour
Claire | June 18, 2010
On this day in history, 18th June 1546, the Protestant martyr and poet, Anne Askew, was found guilty of heresy and condemned to be burned at the stake at Smithfield. Anne Askew’s Background Anne Askew was born in 1520 (some say 1521) in Lincolnshire. She was a noblewoman, being the daughter of Sir William Askew, […]
Category: The Reformation, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events |
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Tags: Anne Askew, Catherine Brandon, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Willoughby, heresy, Protestant martyr
