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  Today in 1532 Henry VIII made Anne Boleyn Marquess of Pembroke. It was the first hereditary peerage title granted to a woman. The then extin...

  Today on 1555 Robert Samuel was executed. He was one of the famous Ipswich Martyrs, and John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ensures his place in histor...

Today in 1551 Edward VI’s Lord Chancellor Richard Rich visited Edward’s Half sister Mary to tell her she needed to stop celebrating the Cathol...

Today marks the death, in 1521 of Josquin des Prez, and while this isn’t directly Tudor related, the music of Josquin greatly influenced our Tud...

    Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 26.  Today in 1533 there was a...

Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 24. Today in 1595 Thomas Digges died. He was an astronomer and mathematician, and was raised by the famous scientist/occultist John Dee after his father died. Digges was the first to expound…

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  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 ...

Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for August 20. Today in 1588 a special servi...

  Today in 1561 Mary Queen of Scots arrived back in Scotland after having spent over a decade in France. Her husband, Francis II, King of France, h...

    Today in 1572 the marriage of Henry of Navarre with Margaret of Valois took place in France. Designed to unite the French Huguenots with th...

Today in 1517 Andrea Ammonio died of the sweating sickness. He was a leading humanist scholar, Italian cleric, and became Latin secretary to Hen...