4 May 1471-Battle of Tewkesbury.

The Battle of Tewkesbury was one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. The forces loyal to the House of Lancaster were completely defeated by those of the rival House of York under their monarch, King Edward IV. The Lancastrian heir to the throne, Edward, Prince of Wales, and many prominent Lancastrian nobles were killed during the battle or were dragged from sanctuary two days later and immediately executed. The Lancastrian king, Henry VI, who was a prisoner in the Tower of London, died or was murdered shortly after the battle. Tewkesbury restored political stability to England until the death of Edward IV in 1483.

4 May 1471 -Death of  Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales 

Edward of Westminster also known as Edward of Lancaster, was the only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou and the husband of Anne Neville.He was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury, making him the only heir apparent to the English throne ever to die in battle.

 

 

 

4 May 1536-Lady Jane Rochford sent a letter to Kingston for her husband George Boleyn,Viscount Rochford in the Tower.She asked how George was and promised that she would “humbly [make] suit unto the king’s highness” for him

 

 

 

 

4 May 1536-Sir Francis Weston was imprisoned in the Tower accused of adulterous liaisons with Queen Anne Boleyn.

4 May 1536-Sir William Brereton was imprisoned in the Tower  accused of adulterous liaisons with Queen Anne Boleyn.

4 May 1547 - Marriage of Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour

 

More History:

 

4 May 1008 - Birth of King Henry I of France

4 May 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

4 May 1415-Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

4 May 1493-Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.(Read my post:http://borgiaandmedici.eklablog.com/on-this-day-in-history-a107784806)

 

4 May 1519 - Death of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino.(Read my post:http://borgiaandmedici.eklablog.com/on-this-day-in-history-a107784806)

 

 

WOLF HALL AND BRING UP THE BODIES

Filming has already begun on the six-part drama based on Mantel's award winning Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up The Bodies, about the relationships at the heart of Henry VIII's court.

Joanne Whalley,(Mary I "The Virgin Queen" and Vanozza "The Borgias") cast asCatherine of Aragon, Jonathan Pryce, who wikk play Cardinal Wolsey and Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall's Henry VIII 

source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/,wikipedia,Jane Boleyn,the infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox

 

3 May 1152 - Death of Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England 

 

 

 

 

3 May 1415 - Birth of Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III 

 

 

3 May 1446 - Birth of Margaret of York also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy –she was the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Duchy after his death. She was a daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two Kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III. She was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England, and she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries.

3 May 1524 – Death of Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent

3 May 1536-Sir Francis Weston was interrogated by the council

3 May 1536-Letter from Cranmer to Henry VIII

 

Have come to Lambeth, according to Mr. Secretary's letters, to know your Grace's pleasure. Dare not, contrary to the said letters, presume to come to your presence, but of my bounden duty I beg you "somewhat to suppress the deep sorrows of your Grace's heart," and take adversity patiently. Cannot deny that you have great causes of heaviness, and that your honor is highly touched. God never sent you a like trial; but if He find you no less patient and thankful than when all things succeeded to your wish, I suppose you never did thing more acceptable to Him. You will give Him occasion to increase His benefits, as He did to Job. If the reports of the Queen be true, they are only to her dishonor, not yours. I am clean amazed, for I had never better opinion of woman; but I think your Highness would not have gone so far if she had not been culpable. I was most bound to her of all creatures living, and therefore beg that I may, with your Grace's favor, wish and pray that she may declare herself innocent. Yet if she be found guilty, I repute him not a faithful subject who would not wish her punished without mercy. "And as I loved her not a little for the love which I judged her to bear towards God and His Gospel, so if she be proved culpable there is not one that loveth God and His Gospel that ever will favor her, but must hate her above all other; and the more they favor the Gospel the more they will hate her, for then there was never creature in our time that so much slandered the Gospel; and God hath sent her this punishment for that she feignedly hath professed his Gospel in her mouth and not in heart and deed." And though she have so offended, yet God has shown His goodness towards your Grace and never offended you. "But your Grace, I am sure, knowledgeth that you have offended Him." I trust, therefore, you will bear no less zeal to the Gospel than you did before, as your favor to the Gospel was not led by affection to her. Lambeth, 3 May.

3 May 1536-Sir William Kingston reported to Thomas Cromwell that Queen Anne Boleyn had told her ladies in the Tower that “she more feared Weston”. She elaborated, explaining that she had reprimanded Weston, a gentleman of the privy chamber, for loving her relative, Mistress Shelton, and not his wife, and he “made answer to her again that he loved on in her house better than them both”. When Anne asked who, he replied “It is yourself”. The Queen then “defied him”. 

 

source:http://www.thefallofanneboleyn.com/

 

 

3 May 1544 - Thomas Wriothesley became Lord Chancellor

 

More history

 

 

 

3 May 1294 - John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg

3 May 1382 - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge

 

3 May 1428 -Birth of Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman 

3 May 1469-Birth of Niccolo de Machiavelli,politician and writer

 

3 May 1494 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"

3 May 1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome

3 May 1528-Death of Clarice de'Medici, granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent

3 May 1764-Birth of Élisabeth of France known as Madame Élisabeth,sister of King Louis XVI.

 

 

source:http://www.historyorb.com/,http://www.british-history.ac.uk/,http://www.thefallofanneboleyn.com/,wikipedia

  

 

2 May 1507-Martin Luther Celebrates His First Mass

 

 

 

 

2 May 1517-John Lincoln was imprisoned in the Tower for being an instigator of the Evil May Day Riots.

 

 

 

2 May 1536-Anne Boleyn was arrested for Adultery, Incest, Treason, Witchcraft and interrogated by the council.At two o'clock in the afternoon, she was escorted by barge to the Tower of London.

 

 

 

"Master Kingston,shall I go to a dungeon?"

'No, Madam you shall go into your lodging that you lay in at your coronation.' 

'It is too good for me. Jesu, have mercy on me!' 

and she kneeled down weeping a great pace, and in the same sorrow fell into a great laughing, and she hath done so many times since.

 

source: The life and death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

 

 

 

 

 

2 May 1536-George Boleyn Viscount Rochford, was imprisoned in the Tower  accused of adultery and incest with his sister, the queen

 

 

 

2 May 1536-Sir Henry Norris was imprisoned in the Tower on 2nd May 1536 accused of adultery with the queen

2 May 1536-Letter from Chapuys to Charles V.

 

Your Majesty will remember what I wrote about the beginning of last month, of the conversation I had with Cromwell about the divorce of this King from the Concubine. I have since heard the will of the Princess, by which, as I wrote, I meant to be guided, and which was that I should promote the matter, especially for the discharge of the conscience of the King her father, and that she did not care in the least if he had lawful heirs who would deprive her of the succession, nor for all the injuries done either to herself or to the Queen her mother, which, for the honor of God, she pardoned everyone most heartily. I accordingly used several means to promote the matter, both with Cromwell and with others, of which I have not hitherto written, awaiting some certain issue of the affair, which, in my opinion, has come to pass much better than anybody could have believed, to the great disgrace [of the Concubine], who by the judgment of God has been brought in full daylight from Greenwich to the Tower of London, conducted by the duke of Norfolk, the two Chamberlains, of the realm and of the chamber, and only four women have been left to her. The report is that it is for adultery, in which she has long continued, with a player on the spinnet of her chamber, who has been this morning lodged in the Tower, and Mr. Norris, the most private and familiar "somelier de corps" of the King, for not having revealed the matter.

The Concubine's brother, named Rochefort, has also been lodged in the Tower, but more than six hours after the others, and three or four before his sister; and even if the said crime of adultery had not been discovered, this King, as I have been for some days informed by good authority, had determined to abandon her; for there were witnesses testifying that a marriage passed nine years before had been made and fully consummated between her and the earl of Northumberland, and the King would have declared himself earlier, but that some one of his Council gave him to understand that he could not separate from the Concubine without tacitly confirming, not only the first marriage, but also, what he most fears, the authority of the Pope. These news are indeed new, but it is still more wonderful to think of the sudden' change from yesterday to today, and the manner of the departure from Greenwich to come hither; but I forbear particulars, not to delay the bearer, by whom you will be amply informed.

As to the matters of France, I think they are in no great favor here. The French ambassador had a courier on Saturday; nevertheless, either for pride or disdain, he let himself be sent for twice before he would go to Court, from which he returned not over well pleased. The English had despatched a courier to France eight days ago, but they sent in great haste to recall him, and I have not heard that they have sent any one since. London, 2 May, Eve of the Invention of Holy Cross, 1536.

 

source:http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

 

 

 

2 May-1550 - Joan Bocher burned at the stake for heresy

Joan Bocher was an English Anabaptist. She has also been known as Joan Boucher or Butcher, or as Joan Knell or Joan of Kent.

2 May 1551- Birth of William Camden.He was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

2 May 1559-John Knox returned to Scotland from exile to start the Scottish Reformation.

2 May 1568-Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Lochleven Castle, where she had been imprisoned for ten months after being arrested and deposed from the Crown by members of the Scottish nobility.

More history:

 

2 May 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.

 

2 May 1451 - Birth of René II, Duke of Lorraine 

2 May 1519-Death of Leonardo da Vinci

2 May 1598 - Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France.

 

2 May 1611-First Publication of King James Bible in London

 

source:wikipedia,http://www.mylifeatthetoweroflondon.com/,http://www.kamglobal.org/,http://www.lookandlearn.com/,pinterest,http://skepticism.org/,http://www.british-history.ac.uk/,http://www.maryqueenofscots.net/,The life and death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

 Happy May Day!

 

 

1st May 1461- Death of James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Wiltshire.He was the son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. A staunch Lancastrian and supporter of Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses, he was beheaded by the victorious Yorkists following the Battle of Towton.

 

 

1st May 1464-Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville secretly 

1st May 1508 - Birth of Sir William Cavendish

 

1st may 1517-Evil May Day

Evil May Day or Ill May Day is the name of a riot which took place in 1517 as a protest against foreigners living in London.

 

1st May 1536 - May Day joust

Henry VIII is unable to join due to his recent accident,Henry Norris took part in the joust and the King give him his horse

1st may 1536-Mark Smeaton was imprisoned in the Tower accused of adultery with the queen and high treason

 

 

More History:

 

1st May 1118 -Death of  Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England 

 

1st May 1218 - Birth of John I, Count of Hainaut

 

1st May 1308-King Albert is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands

1st May 1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.

 

1st May 1447 - Death of Louis VII, Duke of Baveria 

1st May 1539 -Death of  Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany 

1st May 1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory

 

source:Wikipedia,http://historyandotherthoughts.blogspot.fr/,pinterest

30 April 1513-Execution of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk

 

 

30 April 1527-Henry VIII and François I sign treaty of Westminster.

 

30 April 1532 - James Bainham was burned at Smithfield for heresy.

 

 

30 April 1536

The beginning of the end for Anne Boleyn

 

Henry and Anne visit to Calais was cancelled

 

Mark Smeaton (musician at the court of Henry VIII of England, in the household of Queen Anne Boleyn.)was arrested and interrogated by Cromwell

 

 

 

Anne: "Henry please.Henry please.For the love you bear our child for the love of Elizabeth have mercy"

Henry:"You lied me, you've always lied me"

Anne:"NO"

Henry: "You were not a virgin when you married me. You are not what you seem.Your father and your brother arranged everything"

Anne: "No,I loved you, I loved you and I love you still. Please after all we have been to each other, after everything we were, please. One more chance, one more. Henry!! YOUR MAJESTY!! YOUR MAJESTY I BESEECH YOU!!!

 

 

 

Ah! Mark, what moan should I for thee make more,

Since that thy death thou hast deserved best,

Save only that mine eye is forced sore

With piteous plaint to moan thee with the rest?

A time thou hadst above thy poor degree,

The fall whereof thy friends may well bemoan:

A rotten twig upon so high a tree

Hath slipped thy hold, and thou art dead and gone.

 

Thomas Wyatt

 

 

Letter from Henry VIII to Gardiner 

 

On St. Mark's Day last the French ambassador here resident came to the King at Greenwich, declared the receipt of certain letters from his master, and made overtures for an acceleration of the proposed league; viz., first, that the French king would bind himself to make no peace with the Emperor without comprehending England, and such articles as Henry should now devise to be inserted in this treaty; secondly, that if it should be proposed by mutual consent to make war in Flanders, he would bear the moiety of the charges on condition that the conquest, if any, should be equally divided; thirdly, that if the Emperor made war against France for the recovery of Savoy, or the French king proceeded in his enterprise for Milan, Henry should contribute with him 50,000 cr. a month for five, six, or seven months, the French king binding himself to defend England in all causes. The King made a general answer, that he had not been accustomed to be comprehended, but had been in every treaty wherein he was named a principal contrahent, and though he hoped neither of them would make peace without comprehension of such articles as should be mutually agreed to, he did not consider it for his honor to be only comprehended; secondly, that he would be pleased with the overture for Flanders if a clause were added that the French king should commence the war in such part thereof as Henry should appoint; thirdly, touching the contribution, "that we did not esteem 50,000 cr. a month for the time expressed towards the friendship of our good brother," but could give no resolute answer, leaving a special reply to be made by his ambassadors in France. The French ambassador strongly urged the settlement of the matter in England, offering, if the King were not satisfied, to ride home, to bring it to an end there. But the King did not think it for his own ambassadors' honor, who had been so long treating of this matter, to conclude without their advice, especially considering the uncertainty of the French proceedings, and the postscripts of his ambassador's last letters touching the rumors of a peace. Considering also the frivolous devices of the French, who alleged sometimes that they had no need to go to war except for Henry's sake, and sometimes pressed Henry to ask them to enter the war by other indirect and unfriendly means, the King said he would inform his ambassadors of those overtures, and his own mind touching them, which would be so reasonable that he doubted not it would be to Francis' satisfaction.

Instructs them, therefore, first, to ascertain by all possible means if any such peace be concluded, and if they find it be, to tell Francis that although they had received such answer to his ambassadors' credence as they believed would satisfy him, yet as they now understand that peace is certainly concluded, the matter is at an end, and it is their business to know of him what the conditions of the said peace are, and whether he has comprehended England. If they have any doubt about the peace being concluded, they shall, according to their former instructions, endeavour to learn it from the French king himself, still telling him that though they had a favorable answer to his overtures, they could not deliver it till they knew the certainty of that peace, but must rather ask him to tell them the conditions of it, and how England was included in it. If he shall earnestly declare that no such thing is done or intended, they shall then, "like men that before thought upon the grounds expressed in our last letters, which ye shall also declare unto him, that the rumor thereof was but feigned and false," proceed to answer according to certain articles sent herewith, but without acknowledging that any such articles were sent them, only stating that they are commanded in answer to what the French should demand, in case of the King making peace with the Emperor, to devise articles again "for their indemnity and comprehension." They shall then request the French to put their demands in writing, that they may consider them maturely, and avoid any inadvertencies such as appeared in one article in their last letters, viz., that Henry should defend the French in their possession of Milan, whenever they should happen to obtain it,—which would have bound the King to a perpetual war. This point was not touched in the ambassadors' overture. If they press it again, Gardiner shall meet them "with such requests for the same on our side," that they may be induced to come to reason. As the French have required in general words a comprehension of their allies in case England make peace, they are to note that the King will not be bound by such generality to comprehend the bishop of Rome. If the peace be not concluded they must keep the more aloof, and insist upon the delays of the French, who have only now made overtures instead of putting their articles into writing, and that the King thinks it derogatory to him to be comprehended. If the French propose indifferent conditions for their party and demand an answer, they shall, as of their own device, acting on the spirit of former instructions, exhibit to them the articles sent herewith. They are to give hopes of the King accepting the overture concerning the expending so much money again in the cause of England, as England shall defray in theirs; at the same time insisting that the present expenditure of the King's money is for them only. Sends copies of the treaty of Cambray, about certain articles in which a question has arisen in the Council whether the King is at liberty thus to contribute with the French king, and break his league with the Emperor. They are to consider this question themselves, and inform the King of their opinion, that if they think it would be a breach of the league with the Emperor to close with the French king's proposal, the King may devise some other way. Finally, as the French king's ambassador, in his request for a contribution, appeared to have some doubt whether it should be a subsidy for the war in which the French have already entered, or for future wars, although the King told him plainly that he would not be answerable for the past, signifies it to the ambassadors that they may not consent to any proposal involving aid to their wars already attempted in Savoy. Further, they are to add in the overture for Flanders, that the King shall be at liberty when the war begins to bear the moiety of the charges either in money or in men. Greenwich, 30 April.

 

source:http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

 

 

 

 

30 April 1544 - Death of Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden,Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544.

 

 

30 April 1547 - Sir Anthony Denny was made Groom of the Stool by Henry VIII

 

30 April 1555 - Bells wrung in London for the birth of Queen Mary's son, this proved false

source:http://www.thetudorswiki.com/

 

More history:

 

30 April 1250-King Louis IX of France is ransomed. (On 6 April 1250 Louis lost his army at the Battle of Fariskur and was captured by the Egyptians.)

 

30 April 1290-Joan of Acre married Gilbert de Clare

 

 

 

30 April 1341-Death of Jean III,Duke of Brittany

 

 

 

30 April 1553-Birth of Louise of Lorraine, consort of Henry III of France

 

 

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