The Tudor Fair Blog
Tudor Minute September 30: Mary Processes through London
Today in 1553 Mary I proceeded through London on the way to her coronation. From https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tudor-england/marys-coron...
Tudor Minute September 27: Katherine Sets Sail
Today in 1501 Katherine of Aragon set sail from Laredo Spain to go to England and marry Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. It was actually the second...
Tudor Minute September 26: Francis Drake returns home
Today in 1580 Francis Drake arrived back in Plymouth on the Golden Hind. He had successfully circumnavigated the globe, the first English explor...
Tudor Minute September 25: Happy Birthday Stephen Borough
Today in 1525 the explorer Stephen Borough was born in Devon. Devon and Cornwall were were some of the communities of explorers and adventurers w...
Tudor Minute September 24: Arthur Tudor is Christened
Today in 1586 Arthur Tudor was christened. Prince Arthur, Henry VIII’s older brother, was christened at Winchester Cathedral. Of course Henry VII...
Tudor Minute September 23: The Battle of Blore Heath
Today in 1459 the first major battle of the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Blore Heath, took place. The First Battle of St Albans took place i...
Tudor Minute September 20: Arthur Tudor is born
Episode Links
Episode 110: Arthur Tudor
Episode 102: Education in Tudor England https://www.englandcast.com/2018/04/episode-102-education-in-tud...
Tudor Minute September 19: RIP Katherine Willoughby
Today in 1580 Katherine Willougby died. We talked about her yesterday with her sons and the sweating sickness, but something else you may not hav...
Tudor Minute September 18: Happy Birthday Henry Brandon
Today in 1535 Charles Brandon and his wife, his ward Katherine Willoughby, had a son called Henry. Charles Brandon was famous for having married ...
Tudor Minute September 17: RIP Heinrich Bullinger
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...
Tudor Minute September 13: Happy Birthday Cecil
Today is the birthday, in 1520, of the leading Elizabethan statesmen, William Cecil, Lord Burghley. He was born in Lincolnshire and his grandfath...
Tudor Minute September 12: Cranmer on Trial
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, ...