April 11 - Victory for Anne Boleyn, finally!
On this day in Tudor history, 11th April 1533, Good Friday, King Henry VIII informed his council that Anne Boleyn, the woman he'd married in January 1533, was his rightful wife and queen, and should b...
10 Apr 202011min
April 10 - The Gregorian Calendar versus the Julian Calendar
On this day in Tudor history, 10th April 1585, Pope Gregory XIII died from a fever. He was succeeded by Pope Sixtus V. Pope Gregory is known for his reform of the calendar. He introduced what is now...
9 Apr 20206min
April 9 - Catherine Willoughby's second husband
On this day in Tudor history, 9th April 1582, Richard Bertie, member of Parliament, evangelical, and second husband of Catherine Willoughby (other married name Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk, died at Bo...
8 Apr 20208min
April 8 - The Second Martin
On this day in Tudor history, 8th April 1586, leading Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz died in Braunschweig in Germany. He was aged 66. Martin Chemnitz is known as the Second Martin, with the mor...
7 Apr 20206min
April 7 - Robert Aske, the rebel leader
On this day in Tudor history, 7th April 1537, Robert Aske and Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy, were sent to the Tower of London. Both Aske and Darcy had been involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace rebel...
6 Apr 202010min
April 6 - The serial secret husband
On this day in history, 6th April 1621, in the Stuart period, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, died at Netley in Hampshire. He was aged around 81 at his death. Now, Hertford is known for his se...
5 Apr 202011min
April 5 - The Pope was wrong...
On this day in Tudor history, 5th April 1533, the English Church's legislative body, Convocation, ruled that the pope was wrong and that Henry VIII was right, i.e. it ruled that the Pope had no power ...
4 Apr 20203min
April 4 - William Strachey and Shakespeare's The Tempest
On this day in Tudor history, 4th April 1572, William Strachey, writer and historian of Virginia, was born in Saffron Walden in Essex, England. Strachey's account of the 1609 shipwreck of the Sea Ven...
3 Apr 20205min
