Even before Mark Smeaton’s arrest, Anne knew Henry was up to something: she asked her chaplain, Matthew Parker, to take care of Elizabeth if anything…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Category: On This Day
The Earldom of Essex was first created in the twelfth century by King Stephen – and in 1540, the title was a formidable symbol of…
Let me start by saying that the man had a rebellion named after him, so this outcome was kind of inevitable! I’ve already written a…
To really understand Clement’s threat to excommunicate Henry, we need to place it in its proper place some four years into the whole “King’s Great…
On the one hand, Henri IV’s coronation is somewhat Tudor-adjacent, but I’m going to focus on England’s perspective. It’s a great story for a lot…
Thomas Wyatt the Younger (son of the poet who grew up with, and adored, Anne Boleyn), was one of the leaders of an uprising in…
(Full disclosure: it happened a little before this, but this is the date of the letter that Eustace Chapuys wrote to Charles relating the incident.)…
Philip became King of Spain about a year and a half after he married Mary I, so he was already King of England and Ireland…
Henry Courtenay was cousin to Henry VIII – and a possible Yorkist claimant to the English throne. Courtenay was a grandson of King Edward IV…
Quick context: Agnes Tilney was the dowager Duchess of Norfolk who was supposed to be supervising the upbringing of the young Catherine Howard. On November…