July 26 - Anne Boleyn and St Anne
Today, 26th July, is the feast day of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ. Happy St Anne's Day to any Annes or Annas out there! Have a wonderful day! St Anne was very ...
25 Jul 20204min
July 25 - A fool gets into big trouble
On this day in Tudor history, 25th July 1535, the Feast of St James, Eustace Chapuys, the imperial ambassador wrote about a furious King Henry VIII who’d apparently been nearly driven to commit murder...
24 Jul 20204min
July 24 - Richard Hesketh and his plot to depose Elizabeth I
On this day in Tudor history, 24th July 1553, merchant and conspirator Richard Hesketh was born in Lancashire. Hesketh is known for the Hesketh Plot of 1593, when he urged Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl...
23 Jul 20204min
July 23 - Baby Mary, Queen of Scots escapes with her mother
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd July 1543, or 24th according to some sources, Marie de Guise and her baby daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Linlithgow Palace, helped by Cardinal David Be...
22 Jul 20205min
July 22 - Playwright Edward Sharpham and his Cupid's Whirligig
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd July 1576, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, playwright and pamphleteer, Edward Sharpham, was baptised at Colehanger, East Allington, in Devon. Sharpham is thought ...
21 Jul 20204min
July 21 - The arrest of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
On this day in Tudor history, 21st July, 1553, just days after he’d left London with an army to apprehend Mary, half-sister of the late king, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was arreste...
20 Jul 20208min
July 20 - Queen Claude of France
On this day in history, 20th July 1524, Queen Claude of France, consort of Francis I, died at the age of just twenty-four at the Royal Chateau of Blois. She was temporarily laid to rest there and then...
19 Jul 20205min
July 19 - The sinking of the Mary Rose
On this day in Tudor history, 19th July 1545, Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, sank right in front of his eyes in the Battle of the Solent between the English and French fleets. But why did the...
18 Jul 20206min
