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
November 23 - The pretender Perkin Warbeck
November 22 - Sir William Butts, royal physician and confidant
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd November 1545, Henry VIII’s trusted physician and confidant, Sir William Butts, died after suffering from a “dooble febre quartanz”, a form of malaria.
Sir William …
November 21 - Frances Grey, mother of Lady Jane Grey
November 20 - Sir Christopher Hatton - Elizabeth I's mouton and lids
November 19 - An important member of the Catholic underground dies
On this day in Tudor history, 19th November 1587,Henry Vaux died of what was probably consumption at Great Ashby, the home of his sister, Eleanor Brooksby. Henry Vaux is a fascinating Tudor man…
November 18 - Cuthbert Tunstall, an imprisoned bishop
On this day in Tudor history, 18th November 1559, eighty-five-year-old Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, died while in the custody of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace.
C…
November 17 - The queen is dead! Long live the queen!
On this day in Tudor history, 17th November 1558, forty-two-year-old Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, died at St James’s Palace in London. She passed the …
November 16 - A strange Elizabethan plot
November 15 - The pope threatens Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Launch of The Anne Boleyn Collection III and some Anne Boleyn gifts
November 14 - Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon get married (but not to each other)
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November and the Feast of St Erkenwald, there may have been two royal Tudor weddings. We know that Catherine of Aragon married Arthur, Prince of Wales, on 14th Nove…
November 13 - Lady Jane Grey is tried for treason
November 12 - Queen Jane Seymour's remains are moved to Windsor
November 11 - Queen Catherine Howard is moved to Syon House
On this day in Tudor history, 11th November 1541, the feast of Martinmas, King Henry VIII’s council sent Archbishop Thomas Cranmer a letter containing instructions to move Queen Catherine Howard from…
November 10 - Cats, pigeons and lions
November 9 - A stillborn daughter for Queen Catherine of Aragon
November 8 - King Henry VIII praises one wife while trying to marry another!
On this day in Tudor history, 8th November 1528, at Bridewell Palace, King Henry VIII made a rather strange public oration to “the nobility, judges and councillors and divers other persons” to explai…
November 7 - Queen Catherine Howard confesses
November 6 - Henry VIII abandons Catherine Howard
November 5 - Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of France
On this day in Tudor history, Sunday 5th November 1514, eighteen-year-old Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII and daughter of the late King Henry VII, was crowned Queen of France at Saint-Denis.
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