In the course of trying to find out about the medieval fairs of St Albans, I came upon this site, which covers the fairs and markets of the whole of England and Wales to the reign of Edward VI. It’s interesting and very informative, turning up all sorts of obscure long-forgotten fairs and markets. And many still continuing today, of course. Well worth looking through or bookmarking for future reference
[…] either. Since neither his sister and two brothers on the Tailboys side, or his two half sisters and half brother on his father’s side had any children. However recently it was possible to to track DNA from […]
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[…] Norfolk. The second was principally about the penultimate “Tudor”, Mary I, as well as Edward VI and Jane, who Lipscomb reckons as rightly belonging among our monarchs and with a slightly longer […]
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[…] Henry VIII tolerating carols that were a “leftover” from the Catholic era. However, his son. Edward VI was very rabidly Protestant. At the age of 12 he declared the Pope was the Antichrist! Only psalms […]
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[…] to this site : “….Huggin Lane was known in the days of Edward VI. as “Hogan Alias Sporran Lane” – perhaps from Ralph Sporoun, who had property in […]
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[…] follows so soon after Richard III’s era, is Henry VIII‘s will which, in the failure of Edward VI and his half-sisters to reproduce, left the throne to the Brandon/ Grey descendants of his sister […]
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[…] of England could breathe a collective sigh of relief. And then cross their fingers that his son, Edward VI, wasn’t too much of a chip off the old […]
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[…] lost the last male Tudor monarch in 1542 when Edward VI succumbed to tuberculosis, his immune system having been severely impaired by measles and smallpox […]
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[…] lived to be just 17, so survived only fractionally longer than Henry’s only legitimate son, Edward VI (another Beaufort lookalike, as was Henry VIII himself at that […]
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[…] Becoming Elizabeth which covers this mystery, and also Elizabeth’s dealings with her siblings, Edward VI and Mary. A friend has told me that after seeing the first episode she thinks it’s “pretty well […]
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[…] and apparently did a fine job of it, because she was granted a tidy sum as an annuity by young king Edward, who said he knew of no finer place for the children’s education. John Foxe was one of the tutors […]
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[…] Edward VI, early 1547: “After the death of King Henry th’eight his son Edward prince of Wales was come to at Hartford by th’erle of Hartford and S[ir] Anthony Brown Master of t’horse for whom befor was made great preparation that he might be created Prince of Wales, and after ward was brought to Enfield whear the death of his Father was first shewed him, and the same day the death of his father was shewed in London, wher was great lamentation and weping and sodenly he proclaimed King. The next day, being the _ of _ he was brought to the Towre of London whear he taried the space of three wikes : and in the mean Season the Counsel sat every day for the performance of the performaunce of the will…”22 January 1552: “the duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o’clock in the morning”. […]
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[…] those days. William seems to have been a popular man, with few enemies, but that was no help. Under Edward VI he was made Marquess of Northampton, but that, in itself, did not help either. Elisabeth remained […]
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