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
January 22 - Wyatt's Rebellion is planned
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd January 1554, Thomas Wyatt the Younger met with fellow conspirators at his home of Allington Castle in Kent. The purpose of their meeting was to make final plans …
January 21 - Henry Howard's madding time
On the night of this day in Tudor history, 21st January 1543, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt the Younger and several other youths went on a five hour rampage in London.
Surrey regretted h…
January 20 - Miles Coverdale dies after giving his best ever sermon
On this day in Tudor history, 20th January 1569, not long after he'd given the best sermon of his life, Bible translator and Bishop of Exeter, Miles Coverdale, died in London.
Coverdale is known for …
January 19 - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
On this day in Tudor history, 19th January 1601, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, died at Wilton, the family home near Salisbury.
Who was Henry Herbert?
Let Claire Ridgway, founder of the Tudor …
January 18 - Henry VII and Elizabeth of York get married
On this day in Tudor history,18th January 1486, twenty-nine year-old King Henry VII married twenty year-old Elizabeth of York at Westminster Abbey.
This was over two years after he had vowed to marr…
January 17 - Poet Thomas Wyatt is arrested
On this day in Tudor history, 17th January 1541, courtier, diplomat and poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, was arrested and sent to the Tower of London after being accused of corresponding with Cardin…
January 16 - Thomas Howard breaks his promise about Mary, Queen of Scots
January 15 - The death of Catherine Carey (Knollys), daughter of Mary Boleyn
January 14 - Francis Kett leaps and dances in the fire
January 13 - The Prince of Poets
January 12 - Elizabeth I goes to the Tower!
On this day in Tudor history, Thursday 12th January 1559, Queen Elizabeth I travelled by barge from Whitehall to the Tower of London to prepare for her coronation, which was due to take place on the …
January 11 - A coulourful Lord of Misrule
January 10 - There never was so obstinate a heretic
January 9 - A queen twice over
January 8 - Mary Shelton, Anne Boleyn's cousin and lady
January 7 - "You shall find Calais lying in my heart"
January 6 - Epiphany fun and feasting
January 5 - Richard Willes - A quirky Tudor man
January 4 - A rebel keeps his head