March 18 - Elizabeth I is arrested
On this day in Tudor history, 18th March 1554, Palm Sunday, the twenty-year-old Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) was escorted by barge from her home at Whitehall Palace along the River Th...
17 Mar 202011min
March 17 - Alexander Alesius and his terrifying vision of Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 17th March 1565, Scottish theologian and Reformer Alexander Alesius (also known as Ales, Aless), died in either Leipzig or Edinburgh. Alesius wrote a huge number of the...
16 Mar 20207min
March 16 - Richard Burbage, actor and friend of Shakespeare
On this day in history, 16th March 1619, actor Richard Burbage was buried at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch. Burbage was a famous actor in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, peformin...
15 Mar 20205min
March 15 - Henry VIII uses foul language!
On this day in Tudor history, 15th March 1532, King Henry VIII used what was described as “foul language” to William Warham, Archbishop of Canturbury. Henry VIII also threatened the poor man, and it i...
14 Mar 20204min
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
