There were two key bodies that offered opportunities to influence the King: the Privy Chamber and the Privy Council. The gentlemen of the Privy Chamber…
All Tudor, all the time...
Author: janetwertman
On the one hand, this is just a letter from a random petitioner making a request to Thomas Cromwell – the kind of thing that…
So my original plan had been to write an On-This-Day post about the execution of the Holy Maid of Kent (Sister Elizabeth Barton, an English…
This was the day that Sir Thomas More knew that he did not have long to live. Well, in truth he would have guessed it…
Francis Walsingham was Elizabeth I’s Principal Secretary; his loss was a significant one for her. The cause of his death was said to be testicular…
The consecration of Thomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury was actually the pivotal move that paved the way for Anne Boleyn to become Queen of…
After a reign that lasted more than 44 years, Elizabeth’s death at the age of 69 ended two eras – her own Elizabethan Era and…
Almost a year into Jane’s reign, her widowed sister Elizabeth wrote to Cromwell from her house in York. Several local abbeys were scheduled to be…
The execution of Sir Nicholas Carew is actually the opening scene of The Path to Somerset: it was the perfect backdrop to set the tone…
Charles de Marillac was the French Ambassador posted to Henry’s court between 1538 and 1543. His letters reported everything he noticed – and when they…
