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Women of the Tudor period, a category for women who were of significance in Tudor controlled lands from 1485–1603. See also: female members of the House of Tudor . See also the preceding Category:Women of medieval England and the succeeding Category:Women of the Stuart period
The Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) for 118 years with five monarchs: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the Scottish House of Stuart.
Norton, Elizabeth, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History (2017). excerpt; Notestein, Wallace. A history of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 (1911) online; Palliser, D. M. The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors, 1547–1603 (2nd edn, 2014); wide-ranging survey of social and economic history; Ponko, Vincent.
Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.
Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time. It is situated in the parish of Easebourne , just east of Midhurst , West Sussex standing on the north bank of the River Rother .
The Tudor period in London started with the beginning of the reign of Henry VII in 1485 and ended in 1603 with the death of Elizabeth I.During this period, the population of the city grew enormously, from about 50,000 at the end of the 15th century [1] to an estimated 200,000 by 1603, over 13 times that of the next-largest city in England, Norwich. [2]
The start of the Wars of the Roses a civil war for control of the throne of England between the House of York in Yorkshire and House of Lancaster in Lancashire. 1457 28 January Henry VII, the future king of England (r. 1485-1509), is born to parents Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. 1485: 22 August
The complete History of England is arranged in chronological order, as follows: Vols. 1–2: The history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the accession of Henry VII (i.e. 55 BC – AD 1485; first published in 1762) [4] Vols. 3–4. The history of England under the House of Tudor (covering the years 1485–1601; published 1759 ...