This Act, which claimed to be the way to reform monastic life in England, was actually the first step in what was to become its…
All Tudor, all the time...
Author: janetwertman
Elizabeth spent her entire life refusing proposals – and her very first experience shows that she mastered the art early. Of course she had a…
I hate to say it, but I can’t summon all that much sympathy for Henry Grey. Mary forgave him once for the treason of supporting…
Henry would be quite annoyed to know that his resting place in the Quire of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor is marked only by a…
This would have been such a difficult trip for poor Kitty Howard. After Parliament passed the Act of Attainder against her, officials came to get…
Agecroft Hall is a Tudor manor house that was originally erected in Lancashire in the 16th century – and is currently tucked away in leafy…
So there were many theories as to when Henry and Anne married. My favorite is propounded by Agnes Strickland – she gives several of the…
Wardships were an important feature in Tudor England. All lands and titles in England were the property of the crown. The sovereign could and would…
Henry VIII had been very protected as a youth – at least from age eleven on, after his older brother died and he moved up…
Louis XII was King of France from 1498 to 1515. Born in 1462, he was a contemporary of Henry VII of England (who was born…
