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Authors: Leanda de Lisle

Tudor (79 page)

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Guildford and Jane Dudley

  
1
.
  
Prince Philip of Spain and William of Orange.

  
2
.
  
The first reports were those of Giulio Raviglio Rosso and Giovanni Commendone; Girolamo Pollini came much later.

  
3
.
  
See her comments concerning Guildford written in her own hand in her prayer book, Chapter 30.

  
4
.
  
The Chronicle of Queen Jane
(ed Nichols), p. 55.

5
    
The Obscure Margaret Clifford, Heir to the Throne 1578–96

  
1
.
  
CSPV
6, p. 107.

  
2
.
  
This was either Margaret Russell, daughter of the Puritan the Earl of Bedford, who was married to the Earl of Cumberland, or her sister Anne, who was married to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, i.e. it was either Margaret Clifford's stepsister-in-law, or Robert Dudley's sister-in-law.
CSPS
2 (592).

  
3
.
  
This was a view represented by William Allen, the later cardinal. The seminary he had founded at Douai had been closed in March 1578 by Calvinist advances in the region.

  
4
.
  
PRO Prob 11/88, ff. 217–8. She died in 1596.

  
5
.
  
CSPS
Simancas 2 (593). The Venetians heard that Margaret was accused of wishing to poison Elizabeth.
CSPV
(774).

  
6
.
  
Margaret Clifford to Francis Walsingham, undated: Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christoper Hatton
(1847), pp. 146–7. Stow refers to the execution taking place in November 1580, but it had taken place by the time this letter was written in May 1580 (I suspect in November 1579).

  
7
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Some said of her eldest son Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, that he was ‘of all three religions [i.e. Protestant, Puritan and Catholic] and others of none'. Doleman,
Conference About the Next Succession
, p. 253. The Catholic exile in question, Richard Hesketh, was examined and executed.

Index

Albany, John Stuart, Duke of: struggles with Margaret, Queen of Scots, for regency,
138–9
; at French court,
142
; takes over regency of Scotland and Margaret's children,
148
,
149–50
; begs Margaret to stay in Scotland,
151–2
; to be recalled to France,
154
; gives Angus permission to visit Margaret,
167

Alexandra, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
119

Anabaptists,
293

Angus, Archibald Douglas, Earl of: marriage to Margaret, Queen of Scots,
138–9
; asks Henry VIII's agents for help against Albany,
149–50
; goes to Linlithgow,
151
; comes to accommodation with Albany and returns to Scotland,
152
; marriage annulled,
167
; seizes power in Scotland,
177
; seeks refuge in England,
177
,
178
; unable to help imprisoned daughter,
211

Anjou, Duke of,
355
,
357
,
359
,
361
,
420

Anne of Beaujeu,
61

Anne of Cleves,
220–2

Anne of Denmark,
380

Aquinas, St Thomas,
161

Armada,
368
,
374–8

Armel, St,
57

armour,
68

Arran, Earl of,
138

Arthur, King,
64
,
65
,
81–2
,
179–80
,
207

Arthur, Prince of Wales: appearance and character,
103
,
106
; birth,
83–4
; created Prince of Wales,
86
; marriage planned,
99
,
101
,
102
; household at Ludlow,
103
; marriage,
105–9
,
125–6
,
174
; death,
110–11

Arundel, Henry Fitzalan, Earl of,
310
,
321

Ascham, Roger:
The Schoolmaster
,
417–18

Astley, John,
246

Astley, Kat,
245–6
,
247–8
,
296
,
310–11

Audley, Lord,
98

Aylmer, John,
418

Babington, Anthony,
368–9

Barnet, Battle of (1471),
37–8

Barton, Elizabeth (‘Holy Maid of Kent'),
188
,
190

Bath, Knights of the,
127

Beauchamp, Edward, Lord,
324
,
331
,
380
,
382

Beaufort, Lady Margaret: Lancastrian descent,
2
; background,
15–16
; character,
21–2
; piety,
21
,
27–8
,
59
,
107
,
128–9
; betrothal to Tudor,
14
,
15–17
; attitude to Henry VI,
16–17
; marriage to Tudor,
19–20
; husband's death,
20
; Henry VII's birth,
20–1
; marriage to Stafford,
21
; takes refuge at Pembroke while Edward IV makes himself king,
26
; reaction to stepfather's death,
27
; educates son,
27–8
; surrenders him to Herbert's wardship.
28
; writes to him, and curries favour at court,
30
; finds favour with Elizabeth Woodville,
31–2
; visits son,
32
; entertains Edward IV,
32
; sends men to discover son's fate after Edgecote Moor,
34
; reunited with son in London,
35–7
; news of Barnet reaches,
37–8
; husband's death,
39
; marriage to Stanley,
40
; married life,
41
; petitions Buckingham re son,
48–9
; attends Richard III's coronation,
49
; negotiates for son to marry Elizabeth of York,
53–4
,
56
; raises money for his return from exile,
56
; imprisoned by husband after Buckingham's plot,
66
; supports son's invasion,
67
; he gives her Richard III's Book of Hours,
73
; reunited with son in London,
75–6
; takes charge of Warwick briefly,
76
,
77
; and her son's coronation,
77
,
79
; and Arthur's birth,
83–4
; status and household,
84–5
; relationship with Elizabeth of York,
85–6
; and Elizabeth Woodville's retirement,
87
; reaction to East Stoke,
90
; and Elizabeth of York's coronation,
90–1
; arthritis,
103
,
119
; and Arthur's marriage,
105
,
107
; vow of celibacy,
107
; translations of religious works,
107
; fondness for Henry VIII,
107–8
; and Margaret's marriage to James IV,
109
,
113–14
; stays close to Henry VII in his declining years,
117–18
; power at Collyweston,
118
; tends dying son,
119
; at Henry VIII's coronation,
127
; death and tomb,
4
,
127–8
; assessment,
128–9

Beaulieu,
251–2

Becket, Thomas,
218–19

Belvoir Castle archives,
422

Benedetto de Rovezzano,
242

Bess of Hardwick,
348–50
,
352
,
363–4
,
388–9

Bishop, Thomas,
326
,
328
,
412–14

Blount, Elizabeth,
155
,
160

Boleyn, Anne: appearance,
161–2
; background,
143
,
162–3
; Henry VIII courts,
161–2
,
163–4
; he seeks annulment to marry her,
165–75
; and Henry VIII's last days of marriage to Katherine of Aragon,
178–9
,
181–2
; and attempt on Fisher's life,
180
; marriage,
183
; coronation,
184–6
; Elizabeth's birth and christening,
187–8
; miscarries,
190
; 1535 progress,
193
; fears for future,
194–7
; miscarries again,
195
; fall,
198–203
; taken to Tower and tried,
203–5
; death,
207–8
; Elizabeth I's ongoing reverence for,
299
,
305
,
392

Boleyn, George,
201
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
206

Boleyn, Lady,
198

Boleyn, Mary,
162
,
392

Boleyn, Sir Thomas,
162
,
176

Bond of Association,
365

Bosworth, Battle of (1485),
68–73

Bothwell, Earl of,
341
,
350–1

Boulogne,
94
,
231

Brackenbury, Richard,
52

Brandon, Lady Eleanor,
184
,
230–1
,
260
,
419

Brandon, Lady Frances, Marchioness of Dorset: birth,
154
; Anne Boleyn accuses father of sleeping with,
181
; mother's death,
184
; at Jane Seymour's funeral,
217
; marriage and family,
217
; absence from succession,
230–1
; lady-in-waiting to Katherine Parr,
231
; passed over in Henry VIII's will,
237
; visits Mary I,
251
; at reception for Mary of Guise,
255
; Edward VI gives heirs place in succession,
259–60
,
263
; accompanies daughter to take possession of Tower,
270–1
; reaction to Mary's determination to win throne,
273
; marriage to commoner,
288–9
; and child abuse,
417–18
; death,
418

Brandon, Sir William,
70

Brecon Castle,
57

Brereton, William,
204
,
205
,
206

Brittany, Duke of
see
Francis II, Duke of Brittany

Bruyn, Barthel,
221

Buchanan, George,
366

Buck, Sir George,
129

Buckingham, Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of,
21
,
23

Buckingham, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of: marriage to Katherine Woodville,
32
; helps Richard III seize control of Edward V,
44–5
; urges Richard III to take throne,
47
; Margaret Beaufort unsuccessfully petitions him re Henry VII,
48–9
; and princes in the Tower,
52
,
55
; turns against Richard,
52–3
; failure of plot and death,
57–8

Buckingham, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of,
78
,
104
,
110
,
156–8

Bullinger, Heinrich,
415

Burghley, Lord
see
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley

Burgundy, Duchess of
see
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy

Burgundy, Duke of
see
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
;
Philip the Fair, Duke of Burgundy

Byrd, William,
356

Cadwaladr, King,
64
,
72
,
78
,
115

Calais,
13
,
18
,
296–7
,
299
,
329

Cambridge University,
128

Camden, William,
264

Campeggio, Lorenzo,
172
,
174–5

Carey, Sir Robert,
393–4
,
395

Carey, William,
162

Carmarthen,
115

Carthusians,
191–2
,
215

Carver, Robert,
137

Castillon, Battle of (1453),
18

Catherine of Valois,
7–10
,
65
,
409

Cavendish, Elizabeth,
349–50
,
351
,
363–4

Cavendish, George,
163
,
173

Cavendish, Sir William,
348–9

Caxton, William,
65
,
81

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