#OTD
21st April 1580
William Lambe, philanthropist died.
He was a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel during King Henry VIII’s reign.

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#WilliamLambe #Philanthropist #GentlemanoftheChapelRoyal #KingHenryVIII #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

#OTD
21st April 1509
At approximately 11pm, King Henry VII died at his favourite palace of Richmond.
On his ascension to the throne in 1485, he worked hard to make the war-ravaged country into a peaceful one.

#KingHenryVII #HouseofTudor #HouseofLancaster #Tudors #History

#OTD
21st April 1488
Ulrich von Hutten, scholar, poet and satirist, was born in Burg Steckelberg, near Schlüchtern, Hesse.

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#UlrichvonHutton #Scholar #Reformer #MartinLuther #TheNemo #TheVadismus #German #Germany #History

#OTD
20th April 1578
Lady Mary Grey died.
She was the youngest of the famous Grey sisters.

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#MaryGrey #JaneGrey #KatherineGrey #FrancesBrandon #MaryTudorDuchessofSuffolk #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

#OTD
20th April 1536
Sir Richard Rich was appointed Surveyor of Liveries. Four days later on 24th April 1536, he was made Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations.

#RichardRich #SurveyorofLiveries #ChancellorofAugmentations #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History

#OTD
20th April 1534
Elizabeth Barton, known as “the Nun of Kent” was hanged at Tyburn with Father Edward Bocking, Richard Risby and Hugh Rich.

#ElizabethBarton #TheNunofKent #Execution #Tyburn #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History

#OTD
20th April 1527
Matthew Parker, future chaplain to Anne Boleyn & Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-1575) was ordained deacon.

#MatthewParker #Chaplain #Deacon #ArchbishopofCanterbury #AnneBoleyn #KingHenryVIII #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

#OTD
19th April 1608
Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Sackville, and 1st Earl of Dorset, died suddenly of a stroke during a council meeting.

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#ThomasSackville #BaronSackville #EarlofDorset #QueenElizabethI #KingJamesI #Tudors #Stuarts #History

#OTD
19th April 1558
Mary, Queen of Scots and François, the Dauphin of France, were formally betrothed In the Great Hall of Louvre Palace.

#MaryQueenofScots #MaryStuart #QueenofScots #Stuarts #FrançoisDauphinofFrance #ValoisAngoulême #Scotland #France #History

#OTD
18th April 1570
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was buried in Old St Paul's, beside his first wife, Anne Parr.
His grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

#WilliamHerbert #1stEarlofPembroke #AnneParr #Tudors #History

#OTD
18th April 1587
John Foxe, the English historian, reformer and martyrologist, died in London.

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#JohnFoxe #Historian #Reformer #Martyrologist #ActesandMonuments #FoxesBookofMartyrs #Tudors #History

#OTD
18th April 1540
King Henry VIII made Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex.

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#ThomasCromwell #EarlofEssex #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History

#OTD
18th April 1503
King Henri II of Navarre was born at Sangüesa to Queen Catherine of Navarre and her husband (and co-ruler) King John III of Navarre.

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#KingHenriIIofNavarre #Navarre #Albret #History

#OTD
18th April 1536
The Imperial Ambassador paid reverence to Queen Anne Boleyn in a clever piece of manoeuvring by King Henry VIII and the Boleyn family.

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#EustaceChapuys #ImperialAmbassador #QueenAnneBoleyn #Tudors #History

#OTD
18th April 1506
The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica was laid in the Vatican by Pope Julius II.

#StPaulsBasilica #Vatican #VaticanCity #Rome #PopeJuliusII #Italy #History

#OTD
17th April 1492
Christopher Columbus signed a contract with the Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon & Queen Isabella I of Castile to find the Indies with the goal of converting the population to Catholicism.

#ChristopherColumbus #Trastámara #Spain #History

A little outside our time period.
But, #OTD 16th April 1746, my ancestors took to the battlefield and fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden.
Some were killed during the fighting & some were taken prisoner.
~Kate~

#BattleofCulloden #BonniePrinceCharlie #Jacobites

#ThrowbackThursday
Portrait of Count Fortunato Martinengo,
Moretto da Brescia
c1540-1545

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#PortraitofaCount #CountFortunatoMartinengo #Pilgrimage #Nobleman #HolyLand #MorettodaBrescia #Brescia #Lombardy #Italy #History

#OTD
16th April 1594
Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby died suddenly.
His maternal great-grandparents were Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII)

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#FerdinandoStanley #EarlofDerby #Tudors #History

#OTD
16th April 1565
Elizabeth (Bess) Throckmorton was born to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and Anne Carew.

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#ElizabethThrockmorton #SirWalterRaleigh #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

#OTD
16th April 1587
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, Countess of Hertford and Viscountess Beauchamp died at Hanworth Place, Middlesex.

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#AnneSeymour #DuchessofSomerset #CountessofHereford #ViscountBeauchamp #Tudors #History

#OTD
16th April 1512
King Henry VIII’s flagship, The Mary Rose began her first tour of duty in the English Channel on the hunt for French warships.

#MaryRose #KingHenryVIII #HenryVIII #Flagship #Warship #Tudors #History

#OTD
15th April 1599
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

#RobertDevereux #EarlofEssex #LordLieutenantofIrleand #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

#OTD
15th April 1589
Frances Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex, was laid to rest in the Chapel of St Paul in Westminster Abbey.
She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I & founder of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

#FrancesRadcliffe #CountessofSussex #Tudors #History

#TudorTuesday
Orphrey
16th century
Spain

Red velvet with design in applique and couched gold cord.

An Orphrey is an ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.
#Orphrey #OrnamentalStripe #EcclesiasticalVestment #Spain #History

#OTD
14th April 1578
King Philip III of Spain was born at Royal Alcázar of Madrid, to King Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, Anna of Austria.

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#PhilipIIIofSpain #KingPhilipIIIofSpain #KingPhilipIIofSpain #AnnaofAustria #Hapsburg #Spain #History

#OTD
14th April 1578
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots died at Dragsholm Castle, Denmark.

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#JamesHepburn #EarlofBothwell #MaryQueenofScots #Scotland #Stuarts #History

#OTD
13th April 1519
Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici known in history as Catherine de'Médici was born in Florence

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#CatherinedeMedici #QueenofFrance #Florence #deMedici #Valois #France #History

#OTD
13th April 1598
King Henri IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes granting freedom of religion to Huguenots in France.

#EdictofNantes #KingHenriIVofFrance #HenriIV #Bourbon #France #Huguenots #History

#OTD
13th April 1593
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford, was born to William Wentworth and his wife, Anne Atkins.

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#ThomasWentworthEarlofStafford #Statesman #LordDeputyofIreland #KingCharlesI #Stuarts #England #History