It would have been inconceivable to anyone on this day that Thomas Cromwell would be executed almost exactly four years later. But that’s for a…
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Category: On This Day
Thomas Cranmer would become a central figure of the English Reformation, but that was not something anyone would have predicted for him! He was born…
The not-quite-eighteen-years-old Henry had come to the throne on April 22nd – and in just two months he had quickly established his authority. Within days,…
Let’s back up a little for context: four months earlier, Mary’s husband (Henry, Lord Darnley) had been murdered at Kirk O’Field, and many people believed…
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, got this in just under the wire – less than four days before her coronation on June 1! But Cranmer…
There is so much to unpack here… Elizabeth had been brought to the Tower in March, accused of participating in Thomas Wyatt’s treasonous rebellion. Confined…
Giovanni Michiel served as Venetian Ambassador to England during almost all of Mary’s reign. When he left England in 1557, about six months before Mary…
On this day, Nicholas Carew was named to the Order of the Garter instead of George Boleyn. Today we know that this happened less than…
Acquittals never happened when treason was involved! At worst, you might get a single juror abstaining, and that would still be a pretty big deal:…
Oof. Lots to unpack here first for context. John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, was firmly (and loudly) opposed to Henry VIII’s attempt to divorce…