11 May 1500 - Birth of Reginald Pole 

Reginald Pole was an English cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office during the Counter Reformation.He was the son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury.His maternal grandparents were George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence

11 May 1509 –Henry VII's funeral took place in Westminster Abbey

11 May 1532 – Henry VIII accused the clergy of being “scarce our subjects”, and attacked their oath to the Pope.

11 May 1536-Sir Henry Wyatt to Cromwell.

Received his letter on the 10th, and thanks him for the comfortable articles therein touching his son Thomas and himself. Asks Cromwell when it shall be the King's pleasure to deliver him, to show him "that this punishment that he hath for this matter is more for the displeasure that he hath done to God otherwise," and to admonish him to fly vice and serve God better. Alington, 11 May. 

11 May 1560 - Death of Thomas Wendy

He was the royal physician to Henry VIII, a Member of Parliament and a member of the King's Privy Chamber.

11 May 1573-Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland.

11 May 1598 - Death of Edward Drew, a Member of Parliament and Recorder of London.

11 May 1610 - Death of Sir Henry Maynard, an English politician and secretary to Lord Burghley, and became (by steady accretion) a substantial landowner.

Picture of the day:

HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN BY JAMES EDWIN MC CONNELL

source:wikipedia,http://www.thetudormonarch.com/

10 May 1509 – Birth of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby,English nobleman.In 1528, he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on a mission to France, and in 1530, he was one of the peers who gave Pope Clement VII the declaration regarding Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. 

10 May 1533 - Opening of a special court at Dunstable by Archbishop Cranmer to rule on the validity of the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.

10 May  1536 – The Grand Jury of Middlesex and Giles Heron decided that Anne Boleyn and her alleged lovers should be sent to a trial.

10 May  1536 - Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower, ordered to "bring up the bodies" of Henry Norris,Francis  Weston, William Brereton and Mark Smeaton for a trial on May 12th .

10 May 1552 -Death of John Clerk, English Roman Catholic writer.

10 May 1553 - English ships set sail from Tilbury in search of a northeast passage for Asia.

10 May 1554 - Death of Thomas Goodrich, English ecclesiastic and statesman.

More history:

10 May 1278 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining

10 May 1285-Philip III of France is succeeded by Philip IV

10 May 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I

10 May 1427 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

10 May 1493 - Death of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician

10 May 1503-Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.

10 May 1521 -Death of Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist

10 May 1566 -Death of Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist

10 May 1569 - Death of Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer

10 May 1676-Bacon's Rebellion begins in the New World.

10 May 1774-Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France.

Picture of the day:

NATIONAL SYMBOLS OF BRITAIN: EMBLEMS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM BY DAN ESCOTT

source:wikipedia,http://www.thetudormonarch.com/

9 May 1509 - The body of Henry VII was taken in a black chariot from Richmond Palace to St Paul’s Cathedral

 9 May 1514- The Court of Aldermen gave permission for Thomas More to appoint a deputy in his office

9 May 1536 - The King has summoned Cromwell and the council 

9 May 1536- Henry VIII. to the Earl of Essex.

Commanding him to repair to the King to treat of matters relating to the surety of his person, his honor, and the tranquillity of the realm. Westm., 9 May.

9 May 1538 – Marriage of Marie de Guise and James V by proxy

More history:

9 May 1244-Pope Innocent IV Condemns Jews in Papal Bull

9 May 1439-Birth of Pope Pius III 

9 May 1446 - Death of Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples 

9 May 1502-Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his final trip to New World.

9 May 1573 - Polish Parliament selects Duke of Anjou as king

9 May 1588 - Duke Henri de Guise's troops occupy Paris

9 May 1590 - Death of Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen

9 May 1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament

9 May 1613-Birth of Mattias de' Medici

8 May 1450- Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.

8 May 1473 - Death of John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

He  was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1461 he was made a Knight of the Bath.

8 May 1508 – Birth of Charles Wriothesley

Charles Wriothesley was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was the last member of a dynasty of heralds that started with his grandfather—Garter Principal King of Arms John Writhe.

8 May 1536-Mayor and Jurates of Sandwich to Henry VIII:

On Sunday, 7 May, Sir Wm. Latymer, one of the Queen's chaplains, arrived at Sandwich, where he was told that the Queen and others were prisoners in the Tower. He said that he had come from Flanders on her business, and showed the contents of his budget and purse to the mayor and jurates, as Thos. Boys, one of the King's servants then present, can testify. Enclose a list written by him of the books he had with him, and of others in his mail, which had not yet arrived, but which were to be conveyed to London to one Mrs. Wilkinson. Boys will convey Latymer himself to the King. Sandwich, 8 May.

8 May 1538 - Death of Edward Fox, English bishop

8 May 1539 - Henry VIII mustered 15,000 men in response to the Peace of Toledo

8 May 1559 - An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.

8 May 1560 - English forces under Lord Grey of Wilton repulsed at Leith

An unknown nobleman, thought to be Lord Grey de Wilton in 1547, by Gerlach Flicke, National Gallery of Scotland

More history:

8 May 1326 - Birth of Jeanne Ire d'Auvergne, queen of France

8 May 1460 - Birth of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach 

8 May 1492 - Birth of Andreas Alciatus, Italian lawyer

8 May 1521 -Birth of  Peter Canisius, jesuit/saint

8 May 1527 - Birth of Johann Walter, composer

8 May 1587 - Birth of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy 

8 May 1592 -Birth of  Francis Quarles, English poet 

Picture of the day:

SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618) BY JOHN MICHAEL RYSBRACK

7 May 1427 – Death of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English priest 

7 May 1523 – Death of Franz von Sickingen, German knight 

7 May 1525-The German peasants' revolt is crushed by the ruling class and church.

7 May 1530 – Birth of Louis, Prince of Condé, French general

7 May 1535- Sir Thomas More meets with Cromwell and four others in a room at the Tower.  He was told that Henry VIII demanded his opinion on the recently enacted Act of Supremacy.  More said that he refused to "meddle" in such affairs.  Although told that the king would be merciful if he consented to the Act, More says that his whole concern now is for his living the best possible Christian life.  

SIR THOMAS MORE IN PRISON, FROM 'THE NATIONAL AND DOMESTIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND' BY WILLIAM HICKMAN SMITH AUBREY BY ENGLISH SCHOOL

7 May 1535 – Thomas Cromwell and member of the council visited Bishop John Fisher. He refused to acknowledge the King as the supreme head of the Church

JOHN FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER BY HANS HOLBEIN

7 May 1536-William Latymer, Anne Boleyn’s chaplain  was arrested at Sandwich, bringing forbidden books of Protestant reformers into the country.He is best known for his biography of her, the Chronickille of Anne Bulleyne.

7 May 1539 – Death of Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer

7 May 1567-Divorce of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell

7 May 1603 – James VI of Scotland/James I of England,son of Mary, Queen of Scots arrives in London

THE ENTRY OF JAMES I INTO LONDON BY ANONYMOUS

7 May 1617 –Death of David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian 

More history:

7 May 1274-The Second Council of Lyon opens in France to regulate the election of the pope.

7 May 1328 – Birth of Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg

7 May 1342-Election of pope Clement VI

7 May 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.

7 May 1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

7 May 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.

7 May 1667 –Death of  Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer

7 May 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

7 May 1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

7 May 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria.

Picture of the day:

QUEEN ELIZABETH I AND THE EARL OF LEICESTER AT KENILWORTH BY DIRCK HALS

source:wikipedia,the anne boleyn files,luminarium.org,http://law2.umkc.edu/