February 11 - Success for George Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 11 February 1531, the ecclesiastical assembly known as convocation granted King Henry VIII the title of “singular protector, supreme lord, and even, so far as the law of ...
10 Feb 20206min
February 10 - Catherine Howard goes to the Tower
On this day in Tudor history, 10th February 1542, Catherine Howard, King Henry VIII’s fifth wife, was escorted by barge from Syon House, where she’d been kept since November 1541, to the Tower of Lond...
9 Feb 20205min
February 9 - An awful end for a bishop
Warning - Contains a description of a burning at the stake On this day in history, 9th February 1555, Protestant John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, and former Cistercian monk, was burn...
8 Feb 20208min
February 6 - Thomas Cutwode and his dodgy works
On this day in Tudor history, 6th February 1561, poet Tailboys Dymoke (pseudonym Thomas Cutwode) was baptised at Kyme in Lincolnshire. Dymoke, or Cutwode, is known for his allegorical poem, The Bumbl...
5 Feb 20203min
February 5 - Elizabeth under investigation
On this day in Tudor history, 5th February 1549, in the reign of King Edward VI, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I, was summoned to appear before Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who was ke...
4 Feb 20205min
February 4 - Mary Boleyn gets married
On this day in Tudor history, Saturday 4th February 1520, Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, got married to William Carey in the Chapel Royal at Greenwich Palace, in a service attended by King Henry ...
3 Feb 20204min
February 3 - Silken Thomas
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd February 1537, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (known as Silken Thomas), his five uncles and Sir John Burnell, were executed ...
2 Feb 20207min
