December 10 - A priest caught by a priestfinder and torturer
On this day in Tudor history, 10th December 1591, Roman Catholic priest Edmund Gennings and Catholic Swithin Wells were executed on a scaffold set up outside Wells' house at Holborn. Gennings had be...
9 Dec 20207min
December 9 - A scary time for Queen Catherine Howard's stepgrandmother
On this day in Tudor history, 9th December 1541, sixty-four-year-old Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and step-grandmother of Queen Catherine Howard, who was being detained at the Lord Cha...
8 Dec 202012min
December 8 - Anne Boleyn's Master of the Horse
On this day in Tudor history, 8th December 1538, courtier and Master of the Horse to Queens Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, Sir William Coffin, died at Standon in Hertfordshire. It is thought that he...
7 Dec 20207min
December 7 - A rebel (or courageous leader) comes to a sticky end
On this day in Tudor history, 7th December 1549, rebel leader Robert Kett was hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle after being found guilty of treason. His brother William was hanged the same day, ...
6 Dec 20206min
December 6 - An important man who managed to die a natural death
On this day in Tudor history, 6th December 1573, soldier and administrator, Sir Hugh Paulet, died at his home in Hinton St George in Somerset. He distinguished himself as a soldier in Henry VIII's ...
5 Dec 20207min
December 5 - Mary Queen of Scots' husband dies of an ear infection
On this day in Tudor history, 5th December 1560, King Francis II of France, died at the age of just 15. Francis was King Consort of Scotland, as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and his father had...
4 Dec 20207min
December 4 - Murder made to look like suicide!
On this day in Tudor history, 4th December 1514, merchant tailor and leading member of the Lollard community in London, Richard Hunne died while imprisoned in the Lollard's Tower at St Paul's. Hunn...
3 Dec 20208min
December 3 - Roger North, a man close to Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd December 1600, sixty-nine-year-old peer and politician Roger North, 2nd Baron North, died at his London home. North was a good friend of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leic...
2 Dec 20208min
