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
October 9 - Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote
On this day in Tudor history, 9th October 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of the famous classic “Don Quixote”, a book known as "the first modern novel", was baptised in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Hi…
October 8 - Henry VIII forces Princess Mary to write letters
October 7 - Catherine of Aragon wins this round
On this day in Tudor history, 7th October 1529, Pope Clement VII wrote to King Henry VIII regarding his quest for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
It wasn't good news. Catherine o…
October 6 - John Caius, royal physician and sweating sickness
Caius was a theological scholar, founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, royal physician (to Edward VI, Mary …
October 5 - Edward Seymour gathers troops to defend Edward VI
October 4 - Sir Francis Bigod and his rebellion
Bigod led an uprising in Yorkshire in January 1537, Bigod’s Rebellion, after the re…
October 3 - Jane Seymour's coronation is postponed
October 2 - Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, sets sail for France
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd October 1514, eighteen-year-old Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, set off from Dover to sail to France to marry fifty-two-year-old King Louis XII of France.
Thi…
October 1 - John Alcock, bishop and tutor to one of the Princes in the Tower
Alcock wasn’t just a bishop, he was a scholar, a royal tutor, and an administrator. He served as t…
September 30 - A victorious Henry VIII returns to England
September 29 - A papal legate arrives for Henry VIII's annulment case
September 28 - Essex sees Elizabeth I without her mask of youth
September 27 - John de la Pole and his link to the Tudors
On this day in history, 27th September 1442, in the reign of King Henry VI, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, was born.
He may have been born in the Plantagenet period, but Suffolk's first wife…
September 26 - The man Elizabeth I wanted to murder Mary, Queen of Scots
On this day in Tudor history, 26th September 1588, Sir Amias (Amyas) Paulet, administrator, diplomat, Governor of Jersey and gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots died. He was buried in St Martin-in-the-Fie…
September 25 - Explorer Stephen Borough
September 24 - The executions of a Roman priest and the man who sheltered him
On this day in Tudor history, 24th September 1589, Roman Catholic priest, William Spenser, and layman Robert Hardesty were executed at York. Spenser was executed for being a priest, and Hardesty for …
September 23 - William Averel and his Romeo and Juliet, AKA Charles and Julia
On this day in history, 23rd September 1605, in the reign of King James I, Tudor pamphleteer William Averell was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill.
Averell's first work was about two Welsh star-cross…
September 22 - The burial of Amy Dudley (Robsart)
September 21 - Pendleton the Proud, a fickle man
September 20 - Anthony Babington and the Babington Plot
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