November 8 – King Henry VIII and his troubled conscience
On this day in Tudor history, 8th November 1528, King Henry VIII made a rather strange public oration…
Read MoreSeptember 29 – Cardinal Campeggio arrives in England to hear Henry VIII’s case for an annulment
On this day in Tudor history, 29th September 1528, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Cardinal Lorenzo…
Read MoreJuly 11 – Pope Clement VII has had all he can take of Henry VIII
By this day in Tudor history, 11th July 1533, Pope Clement VII had go to the end of…
Read MoreMay 23 – Henry VIII finally gets his annulment
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd May 1533, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, declared the sentence of the special…
Read MoreApril 5 – A cook is boiled to death and a pope is wrong!
On this day in Tudor history, 5th April 1531, Richard Roose, the cook of Bishop John Fisher's household,…
Read More21 June 1529 – King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon at the Legatine Court
On this day in history, 21st June 1529, just over twenty years after their marriage, King Henry VIII…
Read More10 May 1533 – Opening of the Dunstable Court
Yes, for this "on this day in history" post we are taking a break from the 1536 countdown…
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