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Tudor Minute August 21: RIP Bishop Sherbourne
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 21. Today in 1536 Robert Sherbourne, the Bishop of Chichester died. Chichester is a small city in west sussex, and I spent a lovely weekend there staying at a hotel above a…
Tudor Minute August 20: England gives thanks
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 20. Today in 1588 a special service of thanksgiving for the defeat of the Spanish Armada was held at St. Paul’s. The Spanish fleet had been pretty much destroyed, while only about…
August 17, 1517 Andrea Ammonio dies of the sweat
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 17. Today in 1517 Andrea Ammonio died of the sweating sickness. He was a leading humanist scholar, Italian cleric, and became Latin secretary to Henry VII, sent by the Pope. He was…
Tudor Minute August 15: Thomas Kyd is Buried
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 15. Today in 1594 Thomas Kyd was buried. He was an early Elizabethan playwright, and it’s postulated that he actually wrote a version of Hamlet before Shakespeare, which is now known as…
Tudor Minute August 14: Happy Birthday Margaret Pole
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 14. Today in 1473 Margaret Pole was born. She was a Yorkist princess, the daughter of Edward IV’s brother George, the Duke of Clarence. Her life was one big roller coaster of…
Tudor Minute August 10: RIP Thomas Knyvett
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 10. Today in 1512 Thomas Knyvett died. Thomas Knyvett was an English nobleman who was a close friend of Henry VIII shortly after that monarch came to the throne. According to Hall‘s…
Tudor Minute August 9: Nicholas Ludford is buried
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 9. Today in 1557 composer Nicholas Ludford was buried in St Margaret’s Church in Westminster. His festal masses are preserved in several musical manuscripts of the period, including the Peterhouse Partbooks, and…
Tudor Minute August 8: Margaret Tudor gets married
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 8. Today in 1503 Margaret Tudor was married to James IV of Scotland in Holyroodhouse. Margaret was also the daughter of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York – so she was Henry…
Tudor Minute August 7, Thomas Lucy
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 7. Today in 1600 Sir Thomas Lucy was buried in Warwickshire. He was a magistrate and Member of Parliament, but he is best known as a Shakespearian Villain. Lucy was a prominent…
Tudor Minute August 6: Happy Birthday Matthew Parker
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 6. Today is the birthday, in 1504 of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Born in Norwich, he was the son of a weaver, and was ordained in 1527. He was one of…
Tudor Minute August 3: Mary Triumphs
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 3. On August 3 1553 Mary I triumphed over the Protestant revolt started with her half brother Edward VI’s death, with Lady Jane Grey as its figurehead. Edward, who was a Protestant,…
Tudor Minute August 2: Anniversary of the Battle of Cornwall
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 2. Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Cornwall, in 1595. This was part of the ongoing war with Spain that saw the invasion attempt of the Spanish Armada in 1588.…