On this date, Sir Walter Raleigh was given a patent to colonize Virginia. This would be the very first attempt to colonize the new world….and…
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Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, was the second husband of Mary of Scotland, and the father of her son, James VI of Scotland/James I of England.…
Talk about connected! Edward Stafford was descended from Edward III, he was a nephew of Edward IV and Katherine Woodville, the stepson of Jasper Tudor…
First, the context: Wyatt’s Rebellion was an attempt to overthrow Queen Mary I of England and replace her with either her half-sister Elizabeth or her…
Eustace Chapuys served as the Spanish Ambassador to England during the pivotal years of Henry VIII’s reign: he arrived in 1529, when Henry was just…
So, on its face this is not a big deal – but just bear with me and my conspiracy theories… First some context. The year…
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…
