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Burial place of Mary Tudor in St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds. Mary had multiple bouts of illness, requiring treatments over her lifetime. [79] [80] She died, age 37, at Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, on 25 June 1533, [81] having never fully recovered from the sweating sickness she caught in 1528.
Sisters to the King: the tumultuous lives of Henry VIII's sisters – Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0233050906. (primarily on his wife, Mary Tudor) Read, Evelyn (1962). Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk: A Portrait. London: Jonathan Cape. (primarily on his wife, Katherine) "Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk".
Mary Tudor died at Westhorpe, Suffolk, on 25 June 1533, and on 21 July the young Katherine was one of the chief mourners at her funeral. [13] As early as 1531 it had been rumoured in the household of Henry VIII's future wife, Anne Boleyn, that Suffolk was personally interested in Katherine, [6] and six weeks after Mary Tudor's death the ...
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC (10 March 1473 – 25 August 1554) was an English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII , Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard , both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages.
The Dowager Duchess remained in favour after her husband's death. Ordinances issued at Eltham in 1526 indicate that she was accorded first place in the Queen's household after the King's sister Mary Tudor. [3] On 23 May 1533 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared Henry VIII's marriage to his first Queen, Katherine of Aragon, a nullity. [8]
Duke of Suffolk was a title that has been created three times in the peerage of England. The dukedom was first created for William de la Pole , who had already been elevated to the ranks of earl and marquess, and was a powerful figure under Henry VI .
Henry VIII died in 1547, and Edward succeeded him. Mary inherited estates in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, and was granted Hunsdon and Beaulieu as her own. [64] Since Edward was still a child, rule passed to a regency council dominated by Protestants, who attempted to establish their faith throughout the country.
Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Lady Elizabeth Stafford; c. 1497 – 30 November 1558) was an English aristocrat. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Eleanor Percy .