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In the Lords’ year of of 1603, her majesty the Queen of England Elizabeth I, died.

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February 21st in the Lords’ year of 1511, Prince Henry, the first son of King Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon, died.

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Today in history in the Lords’ year of 1547, 9 year old Edward VI was crowned By the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland in Earth Supreme Head.

Katherine’s letter to Culpepper.

Master Culpeper,
I heartily recommend me unto you, praying you to send me word how that you do. It was showed me that you was sick, the which thing troubled me very much till such time that I hear from you praying you to send me word how that you do, for I never longed so much for a thing as I do to see you and to speak with you, the which I trust shall be shortly now. That which doth comfortly me very much when I think of it, and when I think again that you shall depart from me again it makes my heart die to think what fortune I have that I cannot be always in your company. It my trust is always in you that you will be as you have promised me, and in that hope I trust upon still, praying you that you will come when my Lady Rochford is here for then I shall be best at leisure to be at your commandment, thanking you for that you have promised me to be so good unto that poor fellow my man which is one of the griefs that I do feel to depart from him for then I do know no one that I dare trust to send to you, and therefore I pray you take him to be with you that I may sometime hear from you one thing. I pray you to give me a horse for my man for I had much ado to get one and therefore I pray send me one by him and in so doing I am as I said afor, and thus I take my leave of you, trusting to see you shortly again and I would you was with me now that you might see what pain I take in writing to you.
Yours as long as life endures,
Katheryn.
One thing I had forgotten and that is to instruct my man to tarry here with me still for he says whatsomever you bid him he will do it.

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February 13th in the Lords’ year of 1542, Katharine Howard and Boleyn were executed. Katharine is thought to have been 17 and Jane, 36. Both were buried at Saint Peter ad Vincula alongside of the bodies of Jane’s late husband, George Boleyn and Katharine’s cousin, Anne.

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February 11th in the Lords’ year of 1503, Elizabeth of York died of childbed fever on her 37th birthday…

Elizabeth was born on February 11th, 1466 as the daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Her betrothals were numerous but due to the conflict of the War of the Roses in which her family reached the throne, was disposed and then reached the throne again, they were all withdrew. In 1483, Edward VI died leaving the throne to his heir apparent and oldest son, Edward V. Unfortunately Edward V was 12 thus his father had made his uncle, Richard Duke of Gloucester, his regent and protector until he reached 18 but upon reaching the position, Richard begun to scheme his own rise to the throne. In attempt to isolate the freshly coronated 12 year old from his mother and her family, Edward was taken to the Tower of London. It was then that Richard requested that Edward’s younger brother, Richard, should keep Edward company in the tower. Elizabeth Woodville accepted the request.

It was during this time that Richard III had Edward VI’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville ruled invalid on the grounds that Edward had been betrothed previously. Thus, he turned Edward’s children into bastards and took the throne for himself as Edward’s only real heir. Edward and Richard went missing soon after and what happened to the young Princes in the Tower, we may never know. Though in 1674, bones were discovered in one of the stairwells of the Tower and the remains were placed in an urn bearing the children’s name though it was revealed that Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville’s vault containing their coffins at St. George’s, Windsor, that there is a separate vault containing the coffins of two children.

Consequently, Elizabeth was taken into exile by her mother in these tumultuous times. During which, Elizabeth Woodville made an alliance with Margaret Beaufort, the mother of an unlikely Lancastrian Claimant to the throne named Henry. They agreed that if Henry seated himself upon the throne, that Elizabeth would marry him. Thus shortly after he begun planning his invasion.

In the meantime, Elizabeth was called to Richard’s court where there were rumors that Richard would plan to marry her after the death of his sickly wife. Though it never materialized due to the fact that Elizabeth’s betrothed made landfall in England and on the 22nd of August, 1485, Richard III fell at the Battle of Bosworth and there was a new King. By means of conquest, he was crowned as King Henry VII.

The two married on the 18th of January, 1486. The marriage between the two would not only give birth to the new Tudor house, solidify Henry’s claim through Elizabeth’s Yorkist blood but also prove to be very fruitful. The two had seven children; Arthur, Margaret, Henry, Elizabeth, Mary, Edmund and Katherine. 3 of which survived into adulthood; Margaret, Henry and Mary. Though through her reign she had little political power due to her overbearing step-mother, Henry VII was one of the few Kings to be thought to remain faithful to his wife. Without her bloodline, the Tudor house would have crumbled like a House of Cards for she was and is the only Queen to have been daughter, niece, wife, mother, sister and grandmother of a monarch.

After the tragic death of her first son Arthur and after a great period of sorrow, she became pregnant again and on February 2nd, 1503 she delivered a girl Katherine, she would die a few days later and so would Elizabeth on the 11th of what was known at the time as “childbed fever.” Ironically, Henry VIII would loose not only his mother to this infection which is thought to have been caused by a bacteria on doctor’s hands.

Henry VII, though known to be extremely thrifty, spent much money on a lavish funeral and mourned gravely for his lost wife. Henry VII would die a widower in 1509.

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Today in history,

In the Lord’s year of 1478, Thomas More was born in London.