Tudor History with Claire Ridgway
On this day in Tudor history podcasts from Claire Ridgway.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 1041
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
November 18 - A bishop ends his days in confinement
On this day in Tudor history, 18th November 1559, Ralph Baynes (Baines), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, died.
Baynes had been actively involved in the persecutions of Protestants in Mary I's re…
00:05:21 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
November 17 - Elizabeth I's accession
On this day in Tudor history, 17th November 1558, twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, became Queen Elizabeth I following the death of her half-sister, Queen M…
00:08:08 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
November 16 - An Elizabethan earl and rebel who never learnt his lesson
On this day in Tudor history, 16th November 1601, nobleman and rebel Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, died while in exile at Nieuwpoort in Flanders.
Westmorland had fled into exile follow…
00:05:40 |
Sun 15 Nov 2020
November 15 - A Princess of York
On this day in Tudor history, 15th November 1527, a woman who called herself "“the excellent Princess Katherine, Countess of Devon, daughter, sister and aunt of kings”, died at Tiverton Castle in Dev…
00:06:31 |
Sat 14 Nov 2020
November 14 - Bad Signs for Culpeper and Lady Rochford
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November 1541, an inventory was taken of "the goods and chattels, lands and fees of" Thomas Culpeper, a groom of King Henry VIII's privy chamber and a man who had …
00:07:09 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
November 13 - Murder by handgun in London
On this day in Tudor history, 13th November 1536, mercer and member of Parliament Robert Packington (Pakington, Pakyngton) was shot to death by an unknown assailant while he was on his way to mass at…
00:07:52 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
November 12 - Wily Winchester
On this day in Tudor history, 12th November 1555, Mary I’s Lord Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, died. He was laid to rest at Winchester Cathedral in what is now known as the Bisho…
00:10:47 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
November 11 - A stressed George Boleyn, Lord Rochford
On this day in Tudor history, 11th November 1534, Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur De Brion and Admiral of France, landed on English soil. The purpose of the diplomatic mission he was leading was to rene…
00:09:08 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
November 10 - Explorer drowns saving ambassador
On this day in Tudor history, 10th November 1556, English explorer and navigator, Richard Chancellor, was killed. Chancellor is known as being the first foreigner to enter the White Sea and to establ…
00:06:12 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
November 9 - The Northern Rebellion against Elizabeth I
This day in Tudor history, 9th November 1569, is the traditional date given for the start of the only major armed rebellion of Elizabeth I’s reign. It’s known as The Northern Rebellion or Rising of t…
00:06:09 |
Sun 08 Nov 2020
November 8 - A true friend of scholars who had to give Catherine of Aragon bad news
On this day in Tudor history, 8th November 1534, courtier, scholar and literary patron, William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, died at Sutton on the Hill in Derbyshire.
He'd had a wonderful court car…
00:07:36 |
Sat 07 Nov 2020
November 7 - Richard III and supporters are attainted
On this day in Tudor history, 7th November 1485, Henry VII's first parliament attainted King Richard III, and his supporters.
As well as Richard, who was referred to as Richard, late Duke of Glouce…
00:06:11 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
November 6 - Catherine of Aragon meets Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales
On this day in Tudor history, 6th November 1501, Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, met her betrothed, Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King Henr…
00:05:09 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
November 5 - Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Today is the anniversary of the discovery of Gunpowder Plot conspirator, Guy Fawkes, and 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar beneath the Palace of Westminster on the night of 4th/5th November 1605. T…
00:09:53 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
November 4 - A cardinal's actions lead to his family's undoing
On this day in Tudor history, 4th November 1538, Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Neville; Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter; Courtenay's wife, Gertrude Blount, and the …
00:07:43 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
November 3 - King Henry VIII is Supreme Head of the Church
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd November 1534, Parliament passed the First Act of Supremacy, establishing King Henry VIII's supremacy of the English church and rejecting the authority of the pope.
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00:07:21 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
November 2 - Edward V, one of the Princes in the Tower
On this day in history, 2nd November 1470, the feast of All Souls, King Edward V was born at Westminster Abbey, London. Young Edward was King of England for just 2 months in 1483 before he disappeare…
00:07:57 |
Sun 01 Nov 2020
November 1 - A baron with useful friends
On this day in Tudor history, 1st November 1527, the feast of All Saints, William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, courtier and diplomat, was born.
Cobham was a close friend of William Cecil, Baron Burgh…
Cobham was a close friend of William Cecil, Baron Burgh…
00:08:25 |
Sat 31 Oct 2020
October 31 - Falling in love with the wrong woman was a dangerous thing!
On this day in Tudor history, 31st October 1537, Lord Thomas Howard, second son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, died while imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was about twenty-five years of …
00:06:31 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
October 30 - Elizabeth I's favourite is driven to desperation
On this day in Tudor history, 30th October 1600, Queen Elizabeth I refused to renew Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex’s monopoly on sweet wines, saying that “an unruly horse must be abated of his pr…
00:06:22 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
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