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Tudor Minute September 20: Arthur Tudor is born

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-tudor-england-2/ Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for...

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-tudor-england-2/ Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for...

Tudor Minute September 19: RIP Katherine Willoughby

Tudor Minute September 19: RIP Katherine Willou...

Today in 1580 Katherine Willougby 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...

Tudor Minute September 19: RIP Katherine Willou...

Today in 1580 Katherine Willougby 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...

Tudor Minute September 18: Happy Birthday Henry Brandon

Tudor Minute September 18: Happy Birthday Henry...

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...

Tudor Minute September 18: Happy Birthday Henry...

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...

Tudor Minute September 17: RIP Heinrich Bullinger

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 story overlapped with that of...

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 story overlapped with that of...

Tudor Minute September 13: Happy Birthday Cecil

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 grandfather had served Henry VII, so service to...

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 grandfather had served Henry VII, so service to...

Tudor Minute September 12: Cranmer on Trial

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, and as such when Mary...

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, and as such when Mary...