18 January – Henry VII and Elizabeth of York get married and Henry VIII dresses up
On this day in Tudor history, 18th January 1486, twenty-nine year-old King Henry VII married twenty year-old Elizabeth…
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8 January – Mary Shelton, Anne Boleyn’s cousin and lady, and Henry VIII celebrates news of Catherine of Aragon’s death
On this day in Tudor history, 8th January 1571, Mary Shelton (married names: Heveningham and Appleyard) was buried…
5 January – Richard Willes – A quirky Tudor man, and Pope Clement VII and Henry VIII
On this day in Tudor history, 5th January 1546, in the reign of King Henry VIII, geographer and…
26 December – The interesting life of Rose Lok and Henry VIII made some changes to his will
On this day in Tudor history, 26th December 1526, Protestant Rose Lok was born. Rose lived well into…
3 December – The death of Roger North, a man close to Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII pardons rebels
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd December 1600, sixty-nine-year-old peer and politician Roger North, 2nd Baron North,…
8 November – The death of William Blount and King Henry VIII praises one wife while trying to marry another
On this day in Tudor history, 8th November 1534, courtier, scholar and literary patron, William Blount, 4th Baron…
3 November – Henry VIII’s supremacy of the English church and the death of Sir John Perrot
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd November 1534, Parliament passed the First Act of Supremacy, establishing King…