July 1 - Sir Thomas More is found guilty
On this day in Tudor history, 1st July 1535, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII’s former Lord Chancellor, was tried for high treason by a special commission of oyer and termi...
30 Jun 20205min
June 30 - A mortal head wound for a jousting King of France
On this day in Tudor history, 30th June 1559, keen sportsman, King Henry II of France, suffered a mortal head wound while jousting. He died on 10th July and was succeeded by his son, Francis II. Jou...
29 Jun 20205min
June 29 - Henry Percy, sweetheart of Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 29th June 1537, just over a year after the execution of his former sweetheart, Anne Boleyn, Henry Algernon Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, died at around the age of th...
28 Jun 20204min
June 28 - A Catholic earl and poisoned roasted teal
On this day in Tudor history, 28th June 1557, Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was born at Arundel House, the Strand, London. Philip ended up being condemned to death for treason and dying of al...
27 Jun 20207min
June 27 - Two Cornishmen gain fame permanent and immortal
On this day in Tudor history, 27th June 1497, in the reign of King Henry VII, lawyer and member of Parliament Thomas Flamank and blacksmith Michael Joseph (known as Michael an Gof), two of the chief c...
26 Jun 20204min
June 26 - Farther than Wingfield, no man dares to go
On this day in Tudor history, 26th June 1596, soldier Sir John Wingfield was buried in the cathedral at Cadiz in southern Spain. Wingfield had been shot in the head in the attack on Cadiz on 21st June...
25 Jun 20207min
June 25 - Prince Henry (Henry VIII) gets betrothed
On this day in Tudor history, 25th June 1503, the nearly twelve-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest surviving son of King Henry VII, got betrothed to seventeen-year-old Catherine of Aragon at the ...
24 Jun 20203min
June 24 - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's favourite
On this day in Tudor history, 24th June 1532, the feast of St John the Baptist, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I, was born. Elizabeth I called Leicester her "eyes" and ...
23 Jun 20207min
