April 7 – Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of Anne Boleyn, and Robert Aske, rebel leader
What do Elizabeth Boleyn and rebel leader Robert Aske have in common, you may ask? Well, the date…
Tudor Events
April 6 – A queen’s spymaster and a serial secret husband
On this day in Tudor history, 6th April 1621, in the Stuart period, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of…
April 5 – A cook is boiled to death and a pope is wrong!
On this day in Tudor history, 5th April 1531, Richard Roose, the cook of Bishop John Fisher's household,…
April 4 – The influential Mildred Cecil and a writer, historian and shipwreck
On this day in Tudor history, 4th April 1572, writer and historian William Strachey was born in Saffron…
8 March -Henry VIII receives a leopard and Sir Nicholas Carew’s sticky end
On this day in Tudor history, 8th March 1516, Sir John Wiltshire wrote to King Henry VIII from…
3 January – Martin Luther is excommunicated, and two very different days for Anne of Cleves
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd January 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Reformer, German priest and professor…
1 January – Chapuys visits the dying Queen Catherine, and Granada surrenders
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd January 1536, imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, visited his good friend, Catherine…