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Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 [1] or 1471/1472 [2] – 17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council. After the accession of Henry VIII, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London ...
21 de jul. de 2020 · On this day in Tudor history, 21st July, 1553, just days after he’d left London with an army to apprehend Mary, half-sister of the late king, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was arrested near Cambridge. But how and why did the man who had ruled England on Edward VI’s behalf, as Lord President of his privy council, come to this? I explain his role in the accession of Lady ...
29 de may. de 2020 · 1537 (12th October) After a very difficult labour Jane Seymour was delivered of a baby boy. King Henry VIII was overjoyed and named the child Edward and created him Duke of Cornwall. Heralds were dispatched to every part of the country with the news. John Dudley was present at the christening 3 days later.
1 de may. de 2020 · Paul Delaroche (Public Domain) Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554 CE) was briefly declared Queen of England for nine days in July 1553 CE following the death of her cousin Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE). Then only 16 and never officially crowned, Lady Jane was first an unknowing and then an unwilling pawn in a political coup orchestrated by John ...
Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson were executed on Tower Hill on August 17, 1510, in what G. J. Meyer termed “a cynical act of judicial murder, done purely for political and propaganda purposes.”. Dudley was buried at London Blackfriars, Empson at London Whitefriars. Edmund Dudley’s oldest son, John, six years old at the time of his father ...
Hace 4 días · The emergence of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, as the most powerful man in England in 1549 was one of the most unlikely events of the Tudor century. The son of an executed traitor, Dudley was distinguished neither by learning, administrative talent, nor political genius. Yet at the death of Henry VIII in 1547, he and Edward Seymour, Earl of ...
He recovered sufficiently to open Parliament on 1st March, but it was becoming obvious that he would not make old bones. He retired to Greenwich in the hopes of recuperating there. The King, whether he knew he was dying or not, drew up a document that he called his ‘ Devise for the Succession ’. In it, he sought to overturn both the Act of ...
