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Tudor Minute December 12: Happy Birthday Anne of Denmark
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 12. Today in 1574 Anne of Denmark was born. She would become the Queen Consort of James VI/I and would become Queen of England. She was born at Skanderborg Castle in Denmark,…
Tudor Minute December 11: Aftermath of Executions
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 11. Today in 1541 London was reeling from the executions of Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham, that happened yesterday. Dereham had been arrested after Thomas Cranmer let Henry know that his fifth…
Tudor Minute December 7: Happy Birthday Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 7. Today is the birthday of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, who was the grandson of Margaret Tudor by her second husband, Archibald Douglas. While he had a claim to both the English…
Tudor Minute December 6: Happy St. Nicholas Day
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 6. Today is St. Nicholas Day, a day devoted to children in the Tudor period. During the feast of St. Nicholas, a boy from the choir would be chosen as the Boy…
Tudor Minute December 5: Mary Queen of Scots becomes a widow for the first time
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 5. Today in 1560, Mary, Queen of Scots, became a widow for the first time when her husband, King Francis II of France, died, age 15. He died of an infection from…
Tudor Minute December 4: The Pope strips Cranmer of his Archbishopric
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 4. Today in 1555 the Pope in Rome handed down a sentence on the Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, saying that he was stripped of his archbishopric, and all of his ecclesiastical dignities.…
Tudor Minute December 3: Henry Gives Temporary Grace
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for December 3. Today in 1536 Henry proclaimed that the rebels in the Pilgrimage of Grace would be offered a pardon if they submitted to Henry’s officers in the region. In this proclamation, Henry…
Episode 114: Richard Hakluyt
Book Recommendation: Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America by Peter Mancall BBC 4 Programme: The Explorer’s Handbook https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bk2k1x (check on iPlayer to see when it’s next available!) Radio 3 Free Thinking including Richard Hakluyt https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0801rn5 Sources: Detweiler, Robert. “Was Richard Hakluyt a Negative Influence in the Colonization of…
Tudor Minute November 30: Happy Birthday Philip Sidney
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for November 30. Today in 1554 Philip Sidney was born. He was a poet, writer, scholar, courtier, and soldier. He is most famous for his poetry, like The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, and was…
Tudor Minute November 29: RIP Cardinal Wolsey
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for November 29. Today in 1530 Cardinal Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey. Three weeks earlier his world had come tumbling down around him when the Earl of Northumberland arrested him for treason, and he…
Tudor Minute November 28: Happy Birthday Margaret Tudor
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for November 28. Today in 1489 Margaret Tudor was born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in Westminster. She was named for Henry’s mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, and later on as Henry was…
Tudor Minute November 27: Happy Anniversary Will and Anne
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for November 27. Today in 1582 eighteen year old William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was about 8 years older than him. It was a shotgun marriage, and she was pregnant. The marriage went…