August 18 – John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland is tried for treason

| August 18, 2022

August 18 – John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland is tried for treason

On this day in Tudor history, 18th August 1553, in the reign of Queen Mary I, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was tried for treason at Westminster Hall in London. His trial took place less than a month after his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, who’d become Queen Jane following Edward VI’s death, had been overthrown […]

John Dudley and His Friends by Christine Hartweg

| March 18, 2016

John Dudley and His Friends by Christine Hartweg

Thank you so much to Christine Hartweg, author of the new book John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey’s Father-in-Law for sharing a guest post on John Dudley with us today. Christine’s book is an excellent read, and, as I state in my endorsement on its cover, it is “A meticulously researched, highly readable […]

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