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Tudor Minute September 25: Happy Birthday Stephen Borough
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 25. Today in 1525 the explorer Stephen Borough was born in Devon. Devon and Cornwall were were some of the communities of explorers and adventurers were gathering at this time, and he…
Tudor Minute September 24: Prince Arthur is Christened
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Tudor Minute September 21: Happy Anniversary Robert and Lettice
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 21. Today in 1578 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, married Lettice Knollys. Ever since the death of his wife, Amy Robsart, under suspicious circumstances a decade and a half earlier, Dudley had…
Tudor Minute September 20: Happy Birthday Arthur, Prince of Wales
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 20. Today in 1486 Arthur, Prince of Wales, was born to Elizabeth of York in Winchester, eight months after her marriage to Henry Tudor, Henry VII. Arthur was the fulfillment of his…
Tudor Minute September 19: RIP Katherine Willoughby
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 19. Today in 1580 Katherine Willoughby died. We talked about her yesterday with her sons and the sweating sickness, but something else you may not have known about her is that she…
Tudor Minute September 18: Happy Birthday Henry Brandon
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 18. Today in 1535 Charles Brandon and his wife, his ward Katherine Willoughby, had a son called Henry. Charles Brandon was famous for having married Henry VIII’s sister Mary without permission after…
Tudor Minute September 17: RIP Heinrich Bullinger
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 17. Today we mark the death, in 1575, of Heinrich Bullinger, one of the leading Swiss Protestant Reformers. He was born in 1504, and interestingly, his story overlapped with that of the…
Tudor Music Hour Episode 16: Virginal Keyboard music
This episode of the Tudor Music Hour looked at music of the virginal. Here’s a dropbox link to listen to the episode in full: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cx1da3la8twbpcx/Tudor%20Music%20Hour%20September%2016%20Virginals.mp3?dl=0 Here’s a great article on the history of the virginal, and how it reigned in Europe for a hundred years: https://coloraturaconsulting.com/2014/03/25/instrument-biography-the-virginal/ Link to the album:…
Episode 109: The Precedence for Henry’s Divorce
Episode 109 looked at the precedence for Henry VIII’s divorce request from Katherine of Aragon. There’s a narrative that Henry was making a huge request, that he essentially invented divorce. But it was actually a very common event, and even Henry’s own sister got divorced. So in this episode, I…
Tudor Minute September 14 – Drake leaves for the Caribbean Raid
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 14. Today in 1585 Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth for what would be called The Caribbean Raid. The pseudo-war between England and Spain had been heating up, and much of that…
Tudor Minute September 12: Cranmer goes on trial
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 12. Today in 1555 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer went on trial for heresy. He was one of the architects of Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and as such when Mary Tudor…
Tudor Minute September 11: Pope Gregory Celebrates
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 11. Today in 1572 Pope Gregory XIII ordered a commemoration both for the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571, and the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre…