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4 days ago16 min read
The Madness of Jane Parker, Lady Rochford (November 1541 - February 1542)
On 13 February 1542, Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford, was led to a scaffold that had been erected on Tower Green...
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thedudleywomen
7 days ago2 min read
ON THIS DAY - 07 December 1549
On This Day (07 Dec) in 1549, Robert Kett, the leader of 'Kett's Rebellion', and his brother William Kett were executed in Norfolk. In...
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thedudleywomen
Dec 46 min read
Amy Robsart: Recommended Reading
A selection of recommended books which discuss Amy Robsart's life, her relationship with her husband Robert Dudley, and her untimely death.
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thedudleywomen
Dec 12 min read
ON THIS DAY - 01 December 1541
On This Day (01 Dec) in 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were tried for high treason, for their alleged adultery...
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thedudleywomen
Nov 132 min read
ON THIS DAY - 13 November 1553
On This Day (13 Nov) in 1553, a trial was held at in the Great Hall, in the City of London Guildhall; the trial of Lady Jane Grey...
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thedudleywomen
Nov 517 min read
Thomas Percy: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
In the early hours of 05 Nov 1605, a search was completed of a vault, underneath the House of Lords within the Palace of Westminster.
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thedudleywomen
Nov 32 min read
Sir John Perrot and Syon House
On This Day (03 Nov) in 1592, Sir John Perrot, Privy Councillor and Elizabeth I's former Lord Deputy of Ireland died in the Tower of London.
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thedudleywomen
Oct 212 min read
ON THIS DAY - 21 October 1554
On This Day (21 Oct) in 1554, John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, died at Penshurst Place, Kent.
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thedudleywomen
Sep 192 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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thedudleywomen
Aug 241 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
Jul 278 min read
Lady Jane Grey: Recommended Reading
Jane Grey, eldest daughter of Henry Grey, Marques of Dorset and later Duke of Suffolk and his wife Frances Brandon.
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thedudleywomen
Jul 181 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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thedudleywomen
Jul 1614 min read
Anne Askew: Poet. Preacher. Rebel. Heretic. Martyr.
Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England.
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thedudleywomen
Jun 172 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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thedudleywomen
Jun 175 min read
Anne Seymour: "Lady Warwyks Lunacye"
Anne Seymour (born c.1538) was the eldest daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and his second wife Anne Stanhope.
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thedudleywomen
Jun 45 min read
The Marriage of Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley - 04 Jun 1550
Amy Robsart was born on 07 Jun 1532 in Norfolk, the only child from the marriage of Sir John Robsart of Syderstone.
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thedudleywomen
Apr 244 min read
The Arrest of Edmund Dudley - 24 Apr 1509
Edmund Dudley, esq. was the grandson of John Dudley, 1st Baron Sutton - a courtier and diplomat, who after switching from the Lancastrian...
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thedudleywomen
Mar 205 min read
The Downfall of Thomas Seymour
Thomas Seymour was born in c.1508, a younger brother to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and later Duke of Somerset, and older brother to...
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thedudleywomen
Mar 186 min read
Sir Christopher Blount (c.1555-18 Mar 1601)
Sir Christopher Blount, born c.1555, was the second son of Thomas Blount of Kidderminster (c.1525-1568) and his wife Margery Poley.
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