#OTD in Tudor history, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was led through the streets of London to the Tower (1546), and Protestant Welsh soldier and author, Sir Roger Williams, died with his patron, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, at his side (1595)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 13th December, civil lawyer and dean of Chester William Clyffe died (1558), and pirate, sea captain, and explorer Sir Francis Drake finally left Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the Globe (1577)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 14th December, the six-day-old daughter of James V of Scotland became Mary, Queen of Scots, on her father's death (1542), and Queen Mary I was buried at Westminster Abbey (1558)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, Cardinal Pole, Mary I’s Archbishop of Canterbury and her chief advisor, was buried at Canterbury Cathedral (1558), and Thomas Parry, Elizabeth I's comptroller of the household and loyal servant, died of "sheer grief" (1560)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first queen consort, was born at Alcalá de Henares (1485), and soldier and courtier George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, died (1503)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 17th December, Pope Paul III announced the excommunication of King Henry VIII (1538), and Anne Boleyn's former chaplain, Matthew Parker, was consecrated as Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury (1559)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 18th December, two former archdeacons died: Protestant martyr John Philpott was burnt at the stake at Smithfield (1555), and historian and Catholic apologist Nicholas Harpsfield died in London (1575)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 19th December, Katherine Palmer, former Abbess of Syon, died in exile a month after confronting an angry mob (1576), and conspirator John Somerville was found dead in his cell at Newgate Prison (1583)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 20th December, Catherine Howard's step-grandmother begged Henry VIII for forgiveness (1541), and Edward Arden was hanged, drawn and quartered for allegedly plotting with his son-in-law to kill the queen (1583)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, Henry VII's uncle and mentor, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, died (1495), and the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle (or Didymus or Doubting Thomas) was celebrated... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD this day in Tudor history, 22nd December, an imprisoned Bishop Fisher wrote to Thomas Cromwell begging him for a shirt and sheet (1534), and Protestant martyrs John Rough and Margaret Mearing, were burnt at Smithfield for heresy (1557)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 23rd December, schoolmaster, cleric and playwright Nicholas Udall was buried (1556), and Queen Elizabeth I moved from Somerset House to Whitehall, which became her principal residence (1558)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 24th December, King Henry VIII made his final speech to Parliament (1545); Sir Thomas Cornwallis, comptroller of the household of Mary I and member of Parliament, died (1604); and Christmas Eve was celebrated... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 27th December, Anne of Cleves landed at Deal in Kent in preparation for her marriage to Henry VIII (1539), and scholar and Puritan Katherine Killigrew (née Cooke) died (1583)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

#OTD in Tudor history, 30th December, Spanish humanist scholar and Protestant apologist Francis Dryander (Francisco de Enzinas) died from the plague (1552), and scholar and royal tutor Roger Ascham died (1568)... tudorsociety.com/otd-in-tudor-h…

💔👑 #OTD in Tudor history: Did King Louis XII of France really die from too much pleasure after marrying 18-year-old Mary Tudor? 😳 Find out the shocking truth! Watch now! youtu.be/GZPFmf89eY8 #TudorHistory #OnThisDay #History #FrenchHistory #MaryTudor #RoyalHistory #LouisXII

#OTD in 1554: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Peter Carew were summoned by Mary I’s council—but they were too busy plotting! Their goal? Stop Mary’s marriage to Philip, overthrow her, and crown Elizabeth. Betrayal and tragedy followed: tudorsociety.com/rebellion-trea… #TudorHistory #OnThisDay

Loyalty, rebellion and diplomacy: #OTD in Tudor history, 3rd January 1590, Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd, died at Kilmarnock. This Scottish nobleman played a key role in the turbulent politics of Mary, Queen of Scots' reign and beyond... tudorsociety.com/loyalty-rebell…

In 1499, Louis XII of France had his 22-year marriage annulled to marry Anne of Brittany, one of the most sought-after women in Europe. But why did Louis go to such lengths? And what happened to his first wife, who had been loyal for two decades? tudorsociety.com/a-queen-cast-a…

#OTD in Tudor history, 9th January 1493, Christopher Columbus wrote of his crew seeing three mermaids the day before, and they weren't the only explorers to see these sea creatures... #MermaidMyths #ChristopherColumbus #ElizabethI #MythicalCreatures tudorsociety.com/mermaids-in-tu…