The Anne Boleyn Files - The REAL TRUTH about Anne Boleyn "The Most Happy" 21 January 1542 - The Bill of Attainder against Catherine Howard and Lady Rochford. Posted By Claire on January 21, 2014 On 21st January 1542 a bill of attainder against Catherine Howard and Lady Jane Rochford was introduced into the House of Lords. According to this bill, the women were guilty of treason and could be punished without there being any need for a trial. Retha Warnicke points out that although the bill was introduced into Parliament on 21st January 1542, it was not passed on that day. She writes that there seemed to have been “uncertainty among the judges, however, about whether the former queen’s offence constituted treason”, so it was read again on 28th and again postponed.
It finally “received the king’s assent, given in absentia by letters patent, on 11 February”. Here is the record of the attainder from Letters and Papers: “Attainder of Katharine Howard and others. Catherine and Jane were beheaded at the Tower of London on 13th February 1542 and laid to rest in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Also on this day in history… Notes and Sources. 18 January 1486 - The Wedding of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Posted By Claire on January 18, 2014 On this day in history, 18th January 1486, the founding member of the Tudor dynasty, King Henry VII, married Elizabeth of York, daughter of the late Edward IV, at Westminster Abbey.
The service was conducted by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury. Sadly, we don’t have any contemporary accounts of the wedding ceremony or celebrations, but in “The Crowland Chronicle Continuations: 1459-1486″, there is the following record of the marriage: “…after the victory of the said king Henry the Seventh, and the ceremonies of his anointing an coronation, on the last day but one of the following month, by the hand of the most reverend father, Thomas, cardinal archbishop of Canterbury, and in due conformity with the ancient custom, the marriage was celebrated, which from the first had been hoped for, between him and the lady Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of king Edward the Fourth.
The Tudor Blog | 500 years and they still rule! Being Bess. On This Day in Elizabethan History: Mary Stuart is Executed. On this day in Elizabethan history in 1587, Mary Stuart, former Queen of Scotland was executed privately at . She remained unrepentant of the plots for which she had been found guilty, and defiant until her last moment when the axe cleaved her head from her body. All personal articles of clothing worn by the Queen on the scaffold (including her carefully chosen red dress, red being the color of a Catholic martyr) were destroyed so that they could not be fashioned into relics.
Therefore, the chemise on display at (and all over Pinterest, for that matter) that is said to be have been worn by Mary, Queen of Scots at her execution is almost certainly a fake. The execution of her cousin had a profound effect on , both personally and politically, and provided an acceptable catalyst for the invasion of by Philip II’s Spanish Armada in 1588. You can read about the Babington Plot, Mary’s trial, her guilty verdict, and her execution in the following BeingBess posts… On This Day in Elizabethan History: The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.