February 10 - Catherine Howard goes to the Tower
On this day in Tudor history, 10th February 1542, Catherine Howard, King Henry VIII’s fifth wife, was escorted by barge from Syon House, where she’d been kept since November 1541, to the Tower of Lond...
9 Feb 20205min
February 9 - An awful end for a bishop
Warning - Contains a description of a burning at the stake On this day in history, 9th February 1555, Protestant John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, and former Cistercian monk, was burn...
8 Feb 20208min
February 7 - Sir Thomas More
On this day in history, 7th February 1477 or 1478, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, was born in London. More had once wanted to be a monk, but ended up being one of the most well-known...
6 Feb 20204min
February 6 - Thomas Cutwode and his dodgy works
On this day in Tudor history, 6th February 1561, poet Tailboys Dymoke (pseudonym Thomas Cutwode) was baptised at Kyme in Lincolnshire. Dymoke, or Cutwode, is known for his allegorical poem, The Bumbl...
5 Feb 20203min
February 5 - Elizabeth under investigation
On this day in Tudor history, 5th February 1549, in the reign of King Edward VI, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I, was summoned to appear before Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who was ke...
4 Feb 20205min
February 3 - Silken Thomas
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd February 1537, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (known as Silken Thomas), his five uncles and Sir John Burnell, were executed ...
2 Feb 20207min
February 2 - Sir Francis Bryan, the Vicar of Hell
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd February 1550, Sir Francis Bryan, died suddenly in Ireland. He was a rather colourful Tudor character, known as much for his drinking, gambling and all-round bad beha...
1 Feb 20208min
