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
July 2 - Thomas Boleyn's loss is Cromwell's gain
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd July 1536, Thomas Cromwell, the king’s right hand man, was formally appointed Lord Privy Seal. The previous holder of the office had been Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wilt…
00:04:42 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
July 1 - Sir Thomas More is found guilty
On this day in Tudor history, 1st July 1535, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII’s former Lord Chancellor, was tried for high treason by a special commission of oyer and term…
00:05:56 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
June 30 - A mortal head wound for a jousting King of France
On this day in Tudor history, 30th June 1559, keen sportsman, King Henry II of France, suffered a mortal head wound while jousting. He died on 10th July and was succeeded by his son, Francis II.
Jo…
00:05:13 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
June 29 - Henry Percy, sweetheart of Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 29th June 1537, just over a year after the execution of his former sweetheart, Anne Boleyn, Henry Algernon Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, died at around the age of t…
00:04:39 |
Sun 28 Jun 2020
June 28 - A Catholic earl and poisoned roasted teal
On this day in Tudor history, 28th June 1557, Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was born at Arundel House, the Strand, London.
Philip ended up being condemned to death for treason and dying of a…
Philip ended up being condemned to death for treason and dying of a…
00:07:04 |
Sat 27 Jun 2020
June 27 - Two Cornishmen gain fame permanent and immortal
On this day in Tudor history, 27th June 1497, in the reign of King Henry VII, lawyer and member of Parliament Thomas Flamank and blacksmith Michael Joseph (known as Michael an Gof), two of the chief …
00:04:51 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
June 26 - Farther than Wingfield, no man dares to go
On this day in Tudor history, 26th June 1596, soldier Sir John Wingfield was buried in the cathedral at Cadiz in southern Spain. Wingfield had been shot in the head in the attack on Cadiz on 21st Jun…
00:07:03 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
June 25 - Prince Henry (Henry VIII) gets betrothed
On this day in Tudor history, 25th June 1503, the nearly twelve-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest surviving son of King Henry VII, got betrothed to seventeen-year-old Catherine of Aragon at the…
00:03:39 |
Wed 24 Jun 2020
June 24 - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's favourite
On this day in Tudor history, 24th June 1532, the feast of St John the Baptist, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I, was born.
Elizabeth I called Leicester her "eyes" and…
00:07:04 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
June 23 - Levina Teerlinc and her miniatures
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd June 1576, painter and miniaturist, Levina Teerlinc, died at Stepney in London.
Teerlinc was court painter to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, and wa…
00:02:47 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
June 22 - Thomas Boleyn becomes a Knight of the Bath
On this day in Tudor history, the night of 22nd June 1509, King Henry VIII rewarded twenty-six men for their loyal service to the crown by making them Knights of the Bath as part of the celebrations …
00:04:46 |
Sun 21 Jun 2020
June 21 - Lady Jane Grey is Edward's heir
On this day in Tudor history, 21st June 1553, letters patent were issued stating that the dying King Edward VI’s heir was Lady Jane Grey, eldest daughter of the king's cousin, Frances Grey (née Brand…
00:06:33 |
Sat 20 Jun 2020
June 20 - Anne of Cleves is cross about Catherine Howard
On this day in Tudor history, 20th June 1540, Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Queen Anne of Cleves, complained to her advisor about her husband’s interest in one of her maids of honour, a certain Catherine…
00:05:23 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
June 19 - A bad end for a priest threatening William Cecil with hell
On this day in Tudor history, 19th June 1573, Jesuit priest and former rector of a Lincolnshire parish, Thomas Woodhouse, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was the…
00:05:35 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
June 18 - Robert Recorde, his urinal and the equals sign
Yes, you read that title right!
On this day in Tudor history, 18th June 1558, the will of Welsh mathematician, physician and mint administrator Robert Recorde was proved.
Recorde invented the "…
00:04:07 |
Wed 17 Jun 2020
June 17 - Mary, Queen of Scots is imprisoned in Scotland
On this day in Tudor history, 17th June 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle following her surrender at the Battle of Carberry Hill on 15th June.
Sadly, while she was imp…
00:03:31 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
June 16 - Sir John Cheke, scholar and statesman
On this day in Tudor history, 16th June 1514, English classical scholar and statesman, Sir John Cheke was born in Cambridge.
Cheke was the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, t…
00:03:58 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
June 15 - Tudor Court Fools
On this day in Tudor history, 15th June 1559, William Somer (Sommers), court fool to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, died in Shoreditch, London.
Somer managed to survive upsetting the king by ca…
00:08:20 |
Sun 14 Jun 2020
June 14 - Two courtiers in trouble for supporting Mary
On this day in Tudor history, 14th June 1536, not long after the fall of Anne Boleyn, two courtiers, Sir Anthony Browne and Sir Francis Bryan, were interrogated regarding their alleged support of Mar…
00:06:29 |
Sat 13 Jun 2020
June 13 - Pregnant Catherine Parr goes to Sudeley
On this day in Tudor history, 13th June 1548, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and his wife, Catherine Parr, the dowager queen, set off from Catherine’s manor of Hanworth in London to tr…
00:05:26 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
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