September 29 - A papal legate arrives for Henry VIII's annulment case
On this day in Tudor history, 29th September 1528, the papal legate, Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, landed at Dover on the Kent coast. Campeggio and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who had been appointed the p...
28 Sep 20208min
September 28 - Essex sees Elizabeth I without her mask of youth
On this day in Tudor history, 28th September 1599, Elizabeth I’s favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, strode into the queen’s bedchamber unannounced and saw her without her makeup or wig, wi...
27 Sep 20206min
September 27 - John de la Pole and his link to the Tudors
On this day in history, 27th September 1442, in the reign of King Henry VI, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, was born. He may have been born in the Plantagenet period, but Suffolk's first wife ...
26 Sep 20205min
September 26 - The man Elizabeth I wanted to murder Mary, Queen of Scots
On this day in Tudor history, 26th September 1588, Sir Amias (Amyas) Paulet, administrator, diplomat, Governor of Jersey and gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots died. He was buried in St Martin-in-the-Fiel...
25 Sep 20208min
September 25 - Explorer Stephen Borough
On this day in Tudor history, 25th September 1525, explorer, navigator and naval administrator Stephen Borough (Burrough) was born at Borough House, Northam Burrows, Northam, in Devon. This Arctic ...
24 Sep 20203min
September 24 - The executions of a Roman priest and the man who sheltered him
On this day in Tudor history, 24th September 1589, Roman Catholic priest, William Spenser, and layman Robert Hardesty were executed at York. Spenser was executed for being a priest, and Hardesty for s...
23 Sep 20204min
September 23 - William Averel and his Romeo and Juliet, AKA Charles and Julia
On this day in history, 23rd September 1605, in the reign of King James I, Tudor pamphleteer William Averell was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill. Averell's first work was about two Welsh star-crosse...
22 Sep 20207min
September 22 - The burial of Amy Dudley (Robsart)
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd September 1560, Amy Dudley (née Robsart), wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was buried in the chancel of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford....
21 Sep 20205min
