First, a caution – this is the day most people BELIEVE Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church…
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Category: On This Day
Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio was the legate appointed by Pope Clement V to hear Henry VIII’s annulment request case in England. The case, better known as…
Ah, the lucky one. As the daughter of Johann III, Duke of Juliers-Cleves, Anne was a pawn in the international marriage market from her early…
Um, actually no – and I corrected this in a later post (which you can read here). But I left this up because Charles Brandon…
Anne Askew was an unfortunate pawn in Tudor politics. She was tortured (the only woman on record to have experienced this) and burned for heresy…
Today was a big day: the signing of the Treaty of Greenwich that was designed to eventually unite England and Scotland under one crown. The…
More good times for the Seymours…now that Jane was married to the King, the rest of the family had to be ennobled a bit as…
This was the day on which Marie de Guise married James V of Scotland by proxy, removing this crown jewel from the European marriage market.…
Today is the sad anniversary of the burning of Thomas Cranmer. His execution involved a surprise dramatic twist at the end that sealed him as…
When Henry died on January 27, his will contemplated sixteen executors who would share power while his son was still a minor. Nice idea in…
