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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.
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 .
Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owain Tudur (anglicised to Owen Tudor) and Catherine of Valois, the widow of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the goodwill of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI. When the House of ...
On his deathbed, William the Conqueror accorded the Duchy of Normandy to his eldest son Robert Curthose, the Kingdom of England to his son William Rufus, and money for his youngest son Henry Beauclerc for him to buy land. Thus, with William I's death on 9 September 1087, the heir to the throne was William Rufus (born 1056), third son of William I.
Henry VII, the future king of England (r. 1485-1509), is born to parents Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. 1485: 22 August: Battle of Bosworth Field (Battle of Bosworth): the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Richard III, the last Plantagenet king was killed, succeeded by ...
The Norman dynasty, established by William the Conqueror, ruled England for over half a century before the period of succession crisis known as the Anarchy (1135–1154). Following the Anarchy, England came under the rule of the House of Plantagenet, a dynasty which later inherited claims to the Kingdom of France.
Elizabeth I's death in 1603 ended Tudor rule in England. Since she had no children, she was succeeded by the Scottish monarch James VI, who was the great-grandson of Henry VIII's older sister and hence Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed. James VI ruled in England as James I after what was known as the "Union of the Crowns".
1480. 1 August – Treaty of Perpetual Friendship between England and Burgundy. [2]Magdalen College School, Oxford, established by William Waynflete. [3] [4]1481. William Caxton publishes The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, the first English edition of the tale, [2] and also his 1480 translation of Mirrour of the Worlde, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations.