The Tudor Fair Blog
Tudor Minute October 17: Death of Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586.Sir Philip was born in 1554 in Kent, and he is remembered for his poetry, but also as a national hero for defendi...
Tudor Minute October 16: Death of Two Oxford Martyrs
Today we mark the death of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridby in 1555 – they were two of the three famous Oxford Martyrs, along with Archbishop Cranm...
Tudor Minute October 15: Edward is Christened
Today in 1537 Henry and Jane Seymour’s son Edward, the future Edward VI, was christened in Hampton court. Thomas Cranmer performed the rites in fr...
Tudor Minute October 14: Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial
Today in 1486 the trial of Mary Queen of Scots began. At first she had refused to take part in any trial saying that it didn’t apply to her becaus...
Tudor Minute October 11: Henry's the Defender of the Faith
In 1521 Henry VIII received the title Defender of the Faith - Fidei Defensor - from Pope Leo X. This was a new title that would belong to the Engl...
Tudor Minute October 10: Smallpox Strikes Again
Today in 1562, 29 year old Elizabeth I got a bad cold. It was actually smallpox. At first she didn’t believe that she could actually get smallpo...
Tudor Minute October 9: Happy Anniversary Mary
Today in 1514 Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister, married Louis XII of France. She was 18, and he was 52. Mary was born in 1496, and she was reporte...
Tudor Minute October 8: Happy Birthday Lady Margaret Douglas
Today is the birthday, in 1515, of Henry VIII’s niece, Lady Margaret Douglas.
Margaret was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret...
Tudor Minute October 4: Cleves and England make a deal
Today in 1539 England and Cleves signed the marriage treaty between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, had died in...
Tudor Minute October 3: The Treaty of London is celebrated
Today in 1518 the Tudor Court celebrated the Treaty of London, a treaty of Universal Peace agreed between the leading European nations, and calle...
Tudor Minute October 2: Happy Birthday Richard III
Today in 1452 Richard Plantagenet, the future Richard III, was born. He was the last Plantagenet king, usurping his brother’s throne in 1483 beca...
Tudor Minute October 1: England gets a Queen
Today in 1553 Mary Tudor was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey. At the start of her reign, Mary was very popular - she had the suppor...