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4 November – The imprisonment of a treasonous family and the arrest of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

| November 4, 2021

4 November – The imprisonment of a treasonous family and the arrest of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

On this day in Tudor history, 4th November 1538, Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Neville; Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter; Courtenay’s wife, Gertrude Blount, and the couple’s son, Edward Courtenay, were all arrested for treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Montagu, Neville and Exeter, along with Montagu’s brother, Geoffrey […]

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