So, on its face this is not a big deal – but just bear with me and my conspiracy theories… First some context. The year…
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Category: On This Day
Francis Drake was an English explorer and sea captain – best known for the journey that began on this day, the first English circumnavigation of…
Oof. The pardon was real, but it was immersed in bad faith…Let’s back up for context. The Pilgrimage of Grace was the largest revolt of…
So, on November 2, Thomas Cranmer had let the fifty-year-old Henry VIII know that witnesses had come forward claiming that his seventeen-year-old (fifth) wife had…
Yes, yes, this is outside the Tudor era – but it so impacted the sixteenth century and beyond that it deserves a mention. The alliance…
I’ve written other posts about the legal arguments that Mary would use in this trial, also about the letter she wrote to Anthony Babington that…
Margaret Douglas was the daughter that Margaret Tudor bore shortly after marrying her second husband, Archibald Douglas, the Sixth Earl of Angus. Margaret Douglas would…
From the very start of her reign, Elizabeth gave Robert Dudley rich gifts – indeed, he was the top recipient of her royal largesse –…
Normally, births are a very happy thing…but giving birth to the boy who for just a little while would arguably second in line to the…
Born to Elizabeth of York and the newly-crowned Henry VII, Arthur Tudor represented the great hope and promise of the new Tudor dynasty. He was…