Today in Tudor History...

19 June 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.

1282 –Death of Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales

1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

1544 - The Siege of Boulogne began

1566 - Birth of King James VI 

1573 - Execution of Thomas Woodhouse.He was an English Catholic priest and martyr at Tyburn on 19 June 1573, being disembowelled alive.

1584 – Death of Francis, Duke of Anjou,youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.