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Sep 21, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 22 September 1560
On This Day [22 Sep] 1560, Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, was buried at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
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Sep 20, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 21 September 1578
On This Day 21 Sep 1578, Lettice Knollys, Dowager Countess of Essex married Elizabeth I's 'favourite' Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
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Sep 19, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 20 September 1586
On This Day (20 Sep) in 1586, Anthony Babington and 6 of his co-conspirators were executed, following their convictions for high treason.
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Sep 16, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 17 September 1564
On This Day 17 Sep 1564, it is believed that Dorothy Devereux was born at Chartley Manor, Staffordshire.
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Sep 7, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 08 September 1560
On This Day (08 Sep) in 1560, Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, was found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs, at Cumnor Place, Oxon.
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Sep 4, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 05 September 1548
On This Day (05 Sep) in 1548, Katherine Parr died at Sudeley Castle, a week after giving birth to her only daughter Mary.
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Sep 1, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 02 September 1666
On This Day (02 Sep) 1666, a fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, city of London - The Great Fire of London.
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Aug 29, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 30 August 1596
On This Day (30 Aug) in 1596, George Gower was buried in the churchyard of St Clement Danes, London.
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Aug 28, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 29 August 1588
On This Day (29 Aug) in 1588, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester wrote to Elizabeth I from Rycote, Oxon, less than a week before his death
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Aug 26, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 27 August 1562
On This Day (27 Aug) in 1562, Margaret St John, Lady Russell, Countess of Bedford, died from smallpox at Woburn Abbey.
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Aug 24, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 25 August 1540
On This Day (25 Aug) in 1540, Katherine Grey was born at Bradgate House, Leicestershire; the second daughter of Henry Grey.
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thedudleywomen
Aug 6, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 07 August 1574
On This Day (07 Aug) in 1574, Robert Dudley, also known as ‘Robin Sheffield’, was born - the ‘illegitimate’ son of Robert Dudley.
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thedudleywomen
Jul 18, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 19 July 1553
On This day (19 Jul) in 1553, the Lady Mary was proclaimed Mary I, Queen of England, 9 days after her kinswoman Lady Jane Grey had been.
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Jul 5, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 06 July 1553
On This Day (06 Jul) in 1553, Edward VI died at the ‘Palace of Placentia’, Greenwich, at around 8pm.
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Jun 17, 20242 min read
ON THIS DAY - 18 June 1546
Anne Askew was a 25yo writer, poet and preacher, originally from Lincolnshire, whose resolute Reformist religious views...
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Jun 7, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 08 June 1581
On This Day (08 Jun) in 1581, Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh, was born at Leicester House, on the Strand, London.
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thedudleywomen
Jun 2, 20241 min read
ON THIS DAY - 03 June 1550
On This Day (03 Jun) in 1550, John Dudley, son and heir of his father and namesake, the then Earl of Warwick, married Anne Seymour...
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