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
December 14 - Mary I is buried
On this day in Tudor history, 14th December 1558, Queen Mary I was buried at Westminster Abbey.
Mary had died on 17th November 1558 and had left instructions for Catherine of Aragon's remains to b…
00:04:56 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
December 13 - Sir Francis Drake sets off
On this day in Tudor history, 13th December 1577, pirate, sea captain, and explorer Sir Francis Drake finally left the port of Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the Globe.
Claire has spoken about…
00:02:56 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
December 12 - London sympathises with the Earl of Surrey
On this day in Tudor history, 12th December 1546, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was led through the streets of London from Ely Place, where he had been held…
00:05:07 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
December 11 - Robert Dudley's lover and mother of his son
On this day in history, 11th December 1608, one of Queen Elizabeth I’s former ladies and a lover of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster. Her name was Dou…
00:06:58 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
December 10 - The ends of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham
On this day in Tudor history, 10th December 1541, Thomas Culpeper, a gentleman of the privy chamber, and Francis Dereham, a member of the queen’s household, were executed at Tyburn.
They had been f…
00:05:23 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
December 9 - The King is a beast and worse than a beast!
On this day in Tudor history, 9th December 1538, Sir Edward Neville, courtier, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and son of George Neville, 2nd Baron Bergavenny, was beheaded on Tower Hill.
He had bee…
00:05:33 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
December 8 - Birth of Mary, Queen of Scots
On this day in Tudor history, 8th December 1542, Mary Stuart (Stewart), or Mary, Queen of Scots, was born at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland.
Mary was the daughter of King James V of Scotland and his…
00:07:35 |
Sat 07 Dec 2019
December 7 - Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
Today, 7th December, is the traditional date given for the birth of Henry Stuart (Stewart), Duke of Albany and Lord Darnley, in 1545.
Lord Darnley was the son of Margaret Douglas and grandson of Ma…
00:06:02 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
December 6 - The Feast of St Nicholas and the Boy Bishop
Today, 6th December is the Feast of St Nicholas, or St Nicholas of Myra, the 4th century Bishop of Myra. In medieval and Tudor times, it was the traditional day for the election of a boy bishop would…
00:09:02 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
December 5 - Anne Cecil and her unhappy marriage
On this day in Tudor history, 5th December 1556, Anne de Vere (née Cecil) was born, She was the daughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, ahd his second wife, Mildred Cooke.
Anne only lived un…
00:07:07 |
Wed 04 Dec 2019
December 4 - The beginning of the end for Thomas Cranmer
On this day in Tudor history, 4th December 1555, in Rome, papal sentence was passed on Thomas Cranmer, resulting in Cranmer being deprived of his archbishopric. Permission was also granted for his fa…
00:11:11 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
December 3 - Henry VIII pardons rebels
On this day in Tudor history, 3rd December 1536, a proclamation was made to the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace offering them a pardon.
Yes, Henry VIII was offering the rebels "free pardons" for …
00:05:03 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
December 2 - Henry Howard is arrested
On this day in Tudor history, 2nd December 1546, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, poet, courtier, soldier and the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was arrested after Richard Southwell, …
00:04:54 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
December 1 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham found guilty
On this day in Tudor history, 1st December 1541, Thomas Culpeper, a member of King Henry VIII’s privy chamber, and Francis Dereham, a secretary to Queen Catherine Howard, were tried for high treason …
00:05:59 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
November 30 - Henry VIII gets told off by Catherine of Aragon AND Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 30th November 1529, the feast of St Andrew, Henry VIII was reproached by the two women in his life: his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and the woman he wanted to marry, Anne…
00:05:56 |
Fri 29 Nov 2019
November 29 - Cardinal Wolsey cheats the executioner
On this day in Tudor history, 29th November 1530, at around 8 o’clock in the morning, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s former Lord Chancellor, died at the Abbey of St Mary de Pratis, Leicester.
…
00:05:52 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
November 28 - The sad end of claimant Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick
On this day in Tudor history, 28th November 1499, Edward Plantagenet, styled Earl of Warwick, was executed by beheading on Tower Hill.
Warwick was a potential claimant to the throne being the son …
00:06:38 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
November 27 - William Shakespeare gets married
On this day in Tudor history, 27th November 1582, eighteen year-old William Shakespeare, the famous playwright and a man known as the Bard, married twenty-six year-old Anne (also known as Agnes) Hath…
00:05:40 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
November 25 - The coronation of Elizabeth of York
On this day in Tudor history, 25th November 1487, the Feast of St Catherine, Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII and mother of one-year-old Arthur Tudor, was crowned queen at Westminster Ab…
00:05:51 |
Sun 24 Nov 2019
November 24 - Elizabeth of York's coronation procession
On this day in Tudor history, Saturday 24th November 1487, the coronation procession of Elizabeth of York, queen consort of King Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, took place in London.
Elizabeth …
00:06:22 |
Sat 23 Nov 2019
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