Today in Tudor History...

26 August 1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy:

Charles II, Count of Alençon 

Louis I, Count of Flanders

Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine 

John of Bohemia 

1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.

1462 – Death of Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea

1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.

1469 –Birth of  Ferdinand II of Naples

1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.

1533 – Queen Anne Boleyn took to her chamber at Greenwich Palace in preparation for the birth of her first child.

1551 –Death of Margaret Leijonhufvud, wife of Gustav I of Sweden

1555 - Mary I and her husband, Philip of Spain, departed from Whitehall in preparation for Philip’s return to the Low Countries.

1595 – Death of António, Prior of Crato

27 August 1450 – Death of Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician 

1471 – Birth of George, Duke of Saxony 

1487 – Birth of Anna of Brandenburg

1590 – Death of Pope Sixtus V 

1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

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