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On this day in Tudor history, the English force defeated the Scots at the Battle of Flodden while Catherine of Aragon was regent (1513); and the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned queen at Stirling Castle (1543 ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 11th September, Mary, Queen of Scots, began a rather eventful first royal progress in Scotland; and Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron of Upper Ossory, a good friend of Edward VI, died in Dublin ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 10th September, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was christened at Greenwich; and England defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the War of the Rough Wooing ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 13th September, famous Tudor poet and antiquary John Leland was born; and Elizabeth I’s chief advisor and “spirit”, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was born ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 12th September, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s trial started in Oxford – he was in big trouble! And Protestant reformer and leading politician in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, died suddenly at Barbreck ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 15th September, John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, cardinal and Henry VII’s Lord Chancellor, died; and in the French Wars of Religion, the Battle of Arques began ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford and a man with a distinguished court career, died at Chartley; and loyal courtier and soldier Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, died during an outbreak of the plague ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII rode triumphantly through the streets of Boulogne after the French surrendered it to him; and Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, a prospective bridegroom for both of Henry VIII’s daughters, died ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII and Louise of Savoy agreed the Treaty of the More, and Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager and wife of Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, gave birth to a daughter, Mary ..read more
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On this day in Tudor history, 1st September, Henry VIII elevated Anne Boleyn to the peerage, making her Marquess of Pembroke; and Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn was born ..read more