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
- 1042
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
September 20 - Anthony Babington and the Babington Plot
On this day in Tudor history, 20th September 1586, Anthony Babington, John Ballard, John Savage, Chidiock Tichborne and three other conspirators were executed near St Giles-in-the-Fields in London.
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00:08:40 |
Sat 19 Sep 2020
September 19 - Explorer Thomas Cavendish and his circumnavigation
On this day in Tudor history, 19th September 1560, explorer, navigator and privateer Thomas Cavendish was baptised at St Martin's Church, Trimley St Martin in Suffolk.
Cavendish is known for his im…
Cavendish is known for his im…
00:08:11 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
September 18 - Edward Courtenay, a prospective king consort
On this day in Tudor history, 18th September 1556, Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, died from a fever at Padua in Italy.
Courtenay had been sent overseas after he was implicated in Wyatt's Rebe…
Courtenay had been sent overseas after he was implicated in Wyatt's Rebe…
00:05:25 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
September 17 - Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford
On this day in Tudor history, 17th September 1558, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford and grandfather of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and a favourite of Elizabeth I, died at the Devereux fa…
00:06:09 |
Wed 16 Sep 2020
September 16 - John Colet dies after three attacks of sweating sickness
On this day in Tudor history, 16th September 1519, scholar, humanist, theologian, Dean of St Paul's and founder of St Paul's School, John Colet died after suffering three attacks of sweating sickness…
00:05:58 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
September 15 - Elizabeth I saves the day!
On this day in Tudor history, 15th September 1589, the Battle of Arques began.
This battle was part of the final war of the French Wars of Religion, a series of conflicts in France from 1562-1598 b…
This battle was part of the final war of the French Wars of Religion, a series of conflicts in France from 1562-1598 b…
00:04:33 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
September 14 - Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London
On this day in Tudor history, 14th September 1540, Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, Knight of the Garter and comptroller of the King's household, died at his home in Painswick …
00:06:31 |
Sun 13 Sep 2020
September 13 - Tudor poet John Leland
On this day in Tudor history, 13th September 1503, poet and antiquary John Leland was born.
Leland is known for his Latin poems and his antiquarian writings which included a defence of the history of…
Leland is known for his Latin poems and his antiquarian writings which included a defence of the history of…
00:07:42 |
Sat 12 Sep 2020
September 12 - The newly married Earl of Argyll dies suddenly
On this day in Tudor history, 12th September 1573, Protestant reformer, and leading politician in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, died suddenly at Barbreck.…
00:08:40 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
September 11 - Barnaby Fitzpatrick, friend of Edward VI
On this day in Tudor history, 11th September 1581, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron of Upper Ossory, died in Dublin, at the home of surgeon, William Kelly.
In his youth, Fitzpatrick had been friends…
In his youth, Fitzpatrick had been friends…
00:07:20 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
September 10 - The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
On this day in Tudor history, Saturday 10th September 1547, in the reign of King Edward VI, the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, also known as the Battle of Pinkie, took place near Musselburgh, in Scotland, …
00:11:17 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
September 9 - The coronation of Mary, Queen of Scots
On this day in Tudor history, 9th September 1543, the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned queen at the Chapel Royal of Stirling Castle. Mary was just nine mon…
00:04:15 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
September 8 - John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare
On this day in Tudor history, 8th September 1601, John Shakespeare, father of playwright William Shakespeare, was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.
John was a glover and whittaw…
00:05:17 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
September 7 - Charles Brandon marries Catherine Willoughby
On this day in Tudor history, 7th September 1533, just over two months after the death of his previous wife, Mary Tudor. Queen of France, forty-nine-year-old Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, married…
00:06:25 |
Sun 06 Sep 2020
September 6 - Martin Luther writes to the Pope
On this day in Tudor history, 6th September 1520, the famous reformer Martin Luther sent his pamphlet “On the Freedom of a Christian” (also known as “A Treatise on Christian Liberty”) to Pope Leo X. …
00:05:35 |
Sat 05 Sep 2020
September 5 - The death of Bloody Bonner
On this day in Tudor history, 5th September 1569, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London and a man nicknamed “Bloody Bonner”, died in Marshalsea Prison. He had started his…
00:07:05 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
September 4 - A marriage is agreed between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
On this day in Tudor history, 4th September 1539, William, Duke of Cleves, signed the marriage treaty promising his sister, Anne of Cleves, in marriage to King Henry VIII.
Anne would, of course, bec…
00:05:16 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
September 3 - The death of a clown
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd September 1588, or possibly the 5th September, actor and clown, Richard Tarlton, died in Shoreditch. He was buried in St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.
Tarlton was a…
00:05:30 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
September 2 - A very wealthy Irish earl dies in the Tower
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd September 1534, Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and Lord Deputy of Ireland, died in the Tower of London at around the age of 47. Kildare had been arrested on …
00:08:25 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
September 1 - Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 1st September 1566, Edward Alleyn, a major figure in the Elizabethan theatre, was born in the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, London, and baptised the followin…
00:06:44 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
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