March 14 - A man who served 4 monarchs and kept his head
On this day in Tudor history, 14th March 1555, courtier, envoy and landowner, Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, died at his London residence on the Strand aged around 70. Russell was an importa...
13 Mar 202012min
March 13 - A young horse causes the death of an old earl
On this day in Tudor history, 13th March 1540, sixty-eight year-old Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex, died after suffering a broken neck in a horse-riding accident. Chronicler Charles Wriothesley re...
12 Mar 20206min
March 12 - The hidden remains of a treacherous monk
On this day in Tudor history, 12th March 1537, Cistercian monk William Haydock of Whalley Abbey, Lancashire, was hanged for treason at Whalley. Haydock's abbey had been implicated in the 1536 Pilgrima...
11 Mar 20203min
March 11 - William Warner, our English Homer
On this day in history, 11th March 1609, Tudor poet and lawyer William Warner was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell in Hertfordshire. Not many people today have heard of W...
10 Mar 20203min
March 10 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford and his role in the Wars of the Roses
On this day in Tudor history, 10th March 1513, magnate John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, died at his home at Castle Hedingham in Essex. Oxford was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and played an...
9 Mar 20207min
March 8 - Henry VIII receives a leopard
On this day in Tudor history, 8th March 1516, Sir John Wiltshire wrote to King Henry VIII from the English territory of Calais warning him that a couple of gifts were on their way to the king from the...
7 Mar 20205min
March 7 - The Great Comet
This day in Tudor history, 7th March 1556, was one of the days on which the Great Comet, or the Comet of Charles V, was seen and recorded by Paul Fabricius, mathematician and physician at the court of...
6 Mar 20204min
