The Tudor Fair Blog
Tudor Minute May 6: RIP Juan Luis Vives
Today we mark the death of Jean Luis Vives, a Spanish scholar from Valencia, and advisor to Catherine of Aragon. He was also very much involved...
Tudor Minute May 4: Bess of Hardwick laid to rest
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for May 4.
Today in 1608 Bess of Hardwick was l...
Tudor Minute May 1: Evil May Day Riots
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for May 1.
Today in 1517 we saw the Evil May Da...
Tudor Minute April 24: Happy Anniversary Mary Queen of Scots
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for April 24.
Today is the wedding anniversary ...
Tudor Minute December 13: Bon Voyage Sir Francis
Today in 1577 Francis Drake left for his voyage around the world. He would go on to successfully circumnavigate the globe, the first English expl...
Tudor Minute December 11: Katherine Mourns her Loves
Today in 1541 London was reeling from the executions of Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham, that happened yesterday. Dereham had been arrested...
Tudor Minute December 6: Happy St Nicholas Day
Today is St. Nicholas Day, a day devoted to children in the Tudor period. During the feast of St. Nicholas, a boy from the choir would be cho...
Tudor Minute December 5: Mary Queen of Scots is a widow (for the first time)
Today in 1560, Mary, Queen of Scots, became a widow for the first time when her husband, King Francis II of France, died, age 15. He died of an i...
Tudor Minute December 4: The Pope strips Cranmer of his Archbishopric
Today in 1555 the Pope in Rome handed down a sentence on the Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, saying that he was stripped of his archbishopri...
Tudor Minute November 29: RIP Cardinal Wolsey
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for November 29.
Today in 1530 Cardinal Wolsey d...
Tudor Minute November 26: Happy Birthday Henry Fitzroy and Mary Howard
Today is the anniversary of Henry Fitzroy and Lady Mary Howard, married at Hampton Court Palace. Henry was the acknowledged illegitimate son o...
Tudor Minute November 22: RIP William Butts
This is your Tudor Minute for November 22.
Today in 1545 William Butts died. He served as King Henry VIII’s physician, serving at his court from ...