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
March 24 - Robert Rich and Penelope Devereux, an unhappy marriage
On this day in history, 24th March 1619, Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, Tudor nobleman and politician, died at his London home, Warwick House in Holborn. He was laid to rest at Felsted Church in E…
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Mon 23 Mar 2020
March 23 - The last abbey is dissolved
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd March 1540, Waltham Abbey, an Augustinian house in Essex, was surrendered to the Crown. It was the last abbey to be dissolved in Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell's di…
00:04:48 |
Sun 22 Mar 2020
March 22 - William Bourne, his life and his submarine
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd March 1582, gunner, mathematician and writer, William Bourne was buried at Gravesend in Kent.
This popular author, who was able to explain technical matters for …
00:03:57 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
March 21 - Elizabeth I takes to her bed
On this day in Tudor history, 21st March 1603, a dying Queen Elizabeth I finally took to her bed.
Elizabeth I had been queen since November 1558, but now she was dying. She had deep-rooted melancho…
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Fri 20 Mar 2020
March 20 - St Cuthbert Mayne, an Elizabethan priest and martyr
On this day in Tudor history, 20th March 1544, Cuthbert Mayne (Main/Maine) or St Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was baptised in Youlston in North Devon.
Cuthbert Mayne has gone d…
00:08:11 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
March 19 - Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell
On this day in Tudor history, 19th March 1568, Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, died. She was around fifty years old at her death.
Elizabeth was the sister of a queen, and a lord protector, and t…
00:03:48 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
March 18 - Elizabeth I is arrested
On this day in Tudor history, 18th March 1554, Palm Sunday, the twenty-year-old Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) was escorted by barge from her home at Whitehall Palace along the River T…
00:11:12 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
March 17 - Alexander Alesius and his terrifying vision of Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 17th March 1565, Scottish theologian and Reformer Alexander Alesius (also known as Ales, Aless), died in either Leipzig or Edinburgh.
Alesius wrote a huge number of th…
00:07:09 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
March 16 - Richard Burbage, actor and friend of Shakespeare
On this day in history, 16th March 1619, actor Richard Burbage was buried at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.
Burbage was a famous actor in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, peformi…
00:05:34 |
Sun 15 Mar 2020
March 15 - Henry VIII uses foul language!
On this day in Tudor history, 15th March 1532, King Henry VIII used what was described as “foul language” to William Warham, Archbishop of Canturbury. Henry VIII also threatened the poor man, and it …
00:04:04 |
Sat 14 Mar 2020
March 14 - A man who served 4 monarchs and kept his head
On this day in Tudor history, 14th March 1555, courtier, envoy and landowner, Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, died at his London residence on the Strand aged around 70.
Russell was an import…
00:12:19 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
March 13 - A young horse causes the death of an old earl
On this day in Tudor history, 13th March 1540, sixty-eight year-old Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex, died after suffering a broken neck in a horse-riding accident. Chronicler Charles Wriothesley r…
00:06:51 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
March 12 - The hidden remains of a treacherous monk
On this day in Tudor history, 12th March 1537, Cistercian monk William Haydock of Whalley Abbey, Lancashire, was hanged for treason at Whalley.
Haydock's abbey had been implicated in the 1536 Pilgrim…
00:03:30 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
March 11 - William Warner, our English Homer
On this day in history, 11th March 1609, Tudor poet and lawyer William Warner was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell in Hertfordshire.
Not many people today have heard of …
00:03:53 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
March 10 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford and his role in the Wars of the Roses
On this day in Tudor history, 10th March 1513, magnate John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, died at his home at Castle Hedingham in Essex.
Oxford was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and played a…
00:07:43 |
Mon 09 Mar 2020
March 9 - Frances Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex, and her most rare gifts both of mind and body
On this day in Tudor history, 9th March 1589, Lady Frances Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex, and wife of Sir Thomas Radcliffe, Lord Fitzwalter and 3rd Earl of Sussex, died at her home in Bermondsey.
F…
00:05:53 |
Sun 08 Mar 2020
March 8 - Henry VIII receives a leopard
On this day in Tudor history, 8th March 1516, Sir John Wiltshire wrote to King Henry VIII from the English territory of Calais warning him that a couple of gifts were on their way to the king from th…
00:05:03 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
March 7 - The Great Comet
This day in Tudor history, 7th March 1556, was one of the days on which the Great Comet, or the Comet of Charles V, was seen and recorded by Paul Fabricius, mathematician and physician at the court o…
00:04:24 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
March 6 - The Dissolution of the Monasteries
On this day in Tudor history, 6th March 1536, King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries began when the “Act for the Suppression (or Dissolution) of the Lesser Monasteries” was introduced into …
00:04:49 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
March 5 - Tobacco comes to Europe
On this day in Tudor history, 5th March 1558, Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes brought back live tobacco plants and seeds from Mexico to Europe.
In today's "On This Day in Tudor History", Clai…
00:08:27 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
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